KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It is very possible that it is a scam, even though it might look legit or was forwarded to you by a friend -- be especially careful when it seems to come from someone you know through email, a text or social media postings because their account may be hacked. "In Date/Time: Wednesday, February 22, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot!

Phishing 88

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 88

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Shortly after breaking the Target story, KrebsOnSecurity reported that Rescator appeared to be a hacker from Ukraine. Efforts to confirm my reporting with that individual ended when they declined to answer questions, and after I declined to accept a bribe of $10,000 not to run my story. Chang’s.

Computer and Electronics 219

Computer and Electronics Marketing Sales Healthcare 219

KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages. Is AI's killer app social instead of search?

Phishing 76

Phishing Passwords Insurance Systems administration 76

KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #17 | April 25th, 2023 [Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering to an AI Remember The Sims? Using world-class training and simulated phishing, we help customers to improve their security posture, mitigate risk and manage the ongoing problem of social engineering.

Insurance 78

Insurance Security awareness Phishing Ransomware 78

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

After that Fizot story got picked up internationally, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a source who suggested that Yalishanda and Fizot shared some of the same infrastructure. address state that he resides in Vladivostok, which is a major Pacific port city in Russia that is close to the borders with China and North Korea. WHO IS YALISHANDA?

Phishing 179

Phishing Paper Ransomware Government 179

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

16,482,365 known records breached in 240 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

Following our Christmas break, we’re rounding up two weeks’ worth of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Welcome to a new year! At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: >151,000,000 records.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

There’s an online war in Ukraine, one that you haven’t heard much about because that country is holding its own with an army of infosec volunteers worldwide. But the full story of the bronze soldier affair is only becoming clearer now. Vamosi: His neighbor to the east, Russia, has come up before.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Military Government Security 40

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. We’re also introducing two new categories this week: ‘AI’ and ‘Key dates’.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] Coinbase Attack Used Social Engineering Coinbase on their blog describes a targeted social engineering attack that led to the theft of some employee data. Coinbase concludes that anyone can fall victim to a social engineering attack. Humans are social creatures," the company says. "We Save My Spot!

Security awareness 82

Security awareness Phishing Cybersecurity Security 82

Archive-It

MAY 12, 2022

As a youth in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine during the Soviet era, who was taught that the principle of Druzhba Narodov (“the Friendship of the Peoples”) was a multiculturally affirmative counterbalance to American Imperialism, I could never have imagined the conflict and destruction that we all now witness. by Liladhar R.

Archiving 37

Archiving Libraries Access Education 37

KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

One risk of the AI language models is that they can be adapted to perform social engineering at scale. link] [Eyes Wide Shut] Fed Powell's Call with Russian Pranksters Exposed as Social Engineering It was all over the news. Fed's Jerome Powell was social engineered by Russian pranksters posing as Zelensky. Save My Spot!

Cybersecurity 76

Cybersecurity Phishing Security awareness Military 76

Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

A sudden epidemic­ -- when countries struggle to manage not just the outbreak but its social, economic, and political fallout­ -- is especially tempting for interference. In the 1980s, for example, the Soviet Union spread the false story that the US Department of Defense bioengineered HIV in order to kill African Americans.

Security 132

Security Cybersecurity Risk Communications 132

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. These operations have been run by Iran against the United States, Russia against Ukraine, China against Taiwan, and probably lots more besides.

Government 103

Government IT Cybersecurity Education 103

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

For historical context, here are a few milestone hacks – each thought to be nation-state backed – that have brought us to this juncture: Russia meddles in US elections. Russia muscles Ukraine. In 2015 and again in 2016, Sandworm, a Russia-backed hacking ring, caused widespread power outages in the city of Kiev.

Military 184

Military Encryption Government Security 184

ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

Sure, it’s a region of the internet not addressable from your common browser, a special place where bad folks tend to be found, and it’s dark because it’s not searchable, hard to find, but, really, there’s so much more to the story than your occasional AlphaBay or SilkRoad marketplace. I mean, someone has to do that.

Marketing 52

Marketing Ransomware Access IT 52

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections. Illiberal states like Russia and China feared that Internet freedom was a direct threat to their own systems of rule.

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Government Paper Cybersecurity Communications 106