Security
Phishing with Doorbusters
With the holiday season here, remind your teams to avoid those too good to be true deals! "Fake lookalike sites attempt to impersonate legitimate online retail sites, but offer significant discounts in order to incentivize people to make a payment or enter their credit card details."These attacks start with
Dark Web Black Friday Specials
What makes retail more real than deep discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Criminals on the dark web are offering huge discounts on drugs, stolen credit cards and hacking tools for Black Friday 2019.Criminals apparently love discounts just as much as the rest of us. Unfortunately, the volume
MSPs in the Line of Fire
When the vast majority of attacks are automated and sprayed broadly, we never want to believe WE are the real target for a hacker. Everis, one of Spain's largest Managed Service Providers, became the latest victim in the quickly expanding attacks targeting MSPs. "The ransomware encrypted files on the company's
Phished for a Raise
Not getting a raise is rough. Not getting that raise AND having your business completely compromised is even worse! "The attackers posed as their targets' Human Resources department and asked them to open an Excel spreadsheet [entitled] salary-increase-sheet-November-2019.xls."In a well-crafted attack on multiple industry verticals, hackers exploited employees'
School District Attack Results in Data Loss Questions
An attack on Calhoun County School District, near the state capital of Columbia, SC, has left parents worried for their children's data security. The District informed parents via recorded message from the Superintendent. Importantly, the message included a warning "personal information in possession of the district may have been compromised.
Hacker Steals Emerging Tech IP with Social Engineering
Social Engineer and Hacker Ankur Agarwal entered the target company in 2017 and installed key-loggers on employee computers. These key-loggers record every typed document, username, password and message. Newly armed with multiple employee access credentials, he proceeded to steal the company's valuable IP. Among the information he swiped, were 7,
Is Cyber Insurance Failing?
A client of one of the country's largest insurers may be out $6 million after a successful email spoofing campaign from suspected Chinese hackers. In a potentially precedent-setting case, insurance giant AIG is aggressively fighting a lawsuit brought by its client, SS&C Technologies. "Hackers fleeced SS&C
But the link looked safe...
We all know big names like Google and Adobe to be safe places on the Internet. The problem is that attackers are getting even more crafty as we educate our teams about cyber safety. If we focus only on knowledge training, it's very easy for someone to fall for a
