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Russian Indictment: They Used Criminal Tradecraft like Spearphishing To Hack The Democratic Party

Jul 15, 2018 2:42:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
The email arrived in Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s inbox around March 19, 2016, during the height of the presidential primaries, spoofed to look like a standard ...
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State Department warns staff of surge in spear phishing attempts

Apr 13, 2018 10:05:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Eric Geller at Politico reported: "The State Department on Thursday warned employees about a tidal wave of malicious messages attempting to trick staffers into opening a door for hackers. ...
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An inventive YouTube moderator phishing scam

Jan 2, 2018 2:32:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Full marks for inventiveness If you have a YouTube channel, and have had your fill of sifting through the vile torrent of abusive comments left on your video masterpieces, you can invite ...
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If Willie Sutton were working today, he'd be stealing cryptocurrency, not wasting time on banks

Dec 2, 2017 11:36:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Because that's where the money is. Criminals have been installing cryptocurrency miners on victim machines that turn them into sources of money. These operate without the users' ...
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What is the difference between the Surface Web, The Deep Web and the Dark Web?

Nov 28, 2017 7:35:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
These three terms are often a source of confusion, especially in connection with cybercrime and where that comes from. If you think that search engines like Google (there are more!) know ...
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Bad Rabbit Ransomware Attack Was Hiding A Spear Phishing Campaign

Nov 6, 2017 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
During the attacks in eastern Europe with the Bad Rabbit ransomware, a more insidious attack was taking place in Ukraine under its cover, Reuters reported. Serhiy Demedyuk, head of the ...
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U.S. warns about phishing attacks on nuclear, energy, aviation, water, and manufacturing industries

Oct 23, 2017 7:26:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
(Reuters) — The U.S government issued a rare public warning that sophisticated hackers are targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing ...
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Ransomware Spear Phishing Attack Used To Hide 60M Cyberheist

Oct 16, 2017 6:39:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
In a classic "divert their attention", the Taiwan Far East Bank was first attacked with spear phishing emails that pointed to malicious executables, which were clicked on by employees. ...
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A New Spear Phishing Attack Uses Compromised Government Servers And DNS

Oct 15, 2017 9:02:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Cisco's Talos malware researchers posted about a highly sophisticated, targeted spear phishing attack using malicious Word attachments, spoofed to look like it was from the U.S. ...
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Third Quarter 2017 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects [INFOGRAPHIC]

Oct 11, 2017 5:16:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report quarterly on the latest top-clicked phishing email subjects in 3 separate categories: subjects related to social ...
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