Collaborate Disseminate
His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya for nearly 8 months before being nabbed. Continue reading Fake Dell support rep admits to talking US colleges out of $874,000
Everyone will at some point see a standard phishing email. Be it the 409 Scam (Nigerian Prince) or even a fake password reset, these are pretty easy to spot, and most people delete it without flinching. However, for the select few who have been on… Continue reading How Spear Phishing Makes BEC Attacks So Effective
Money intended for the construction of a brand new high school was instead placed in a bank account controlled by scammers by officials of a North Carolina county.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading $1.7 million still missing after North Carolina county hit by business email compromise scam
It seems that an annual jaunt through the success cybercriminals are having with business email compromise (BEC) and fleecing money from companies, organizations and governmental entities is a requirement. Last year we asked the question, “Are y… Continue reading Business Email Compromise Continues to Plague
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are among the most effective forms of phishing in our modern world. Regardless of the technology in place, the social engineering involved easily will bypass it and can trick even trained users.
The post How… Continue reading How Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Impact Everyone
At Infosecurity Europe, Threatpost gets a behind-the-scenes look at the discovery of BEC cybergang Scattered Canary. Continue reading Podcast: Behind-the-Scenes Look at Scattered Canary BEC Cybergang
The importance of reading the network tealeaves of a company’s network traffic to head off an attack. Continue reading How Decoding Network Traffic Can Save Your Data Bacon
Nigerian scam groups launched even more attacks in 2018 – and used more complex types of malware to reach more victims. Continue reading ThreatList: Nigerian Cybercrime Surged 54 Percent in 2018
The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was released today, and I was lucky enough to be handed a hot off the press physical copy while at the Global Cyber Alliance Cyber Trends 2019 event at Mansion House, London. For me, the DBIR p… Continue reading 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) Key Takeaways
Cloud misconfigurations, business email compromise (BEC) and intellectual property theft are all up in the Verizon DBIR 2019 from last year. Continue reading Verizon Data Breach Report: Espionage, C-Suite and Cloud Attacks on the Rise