Tag: KnowBe4

Bloomberg has reported that forged “Emergency Data Requests” last year induced Apple and Meta to surrender “basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address.”

Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) come from US law enforcement authorities. But don’t they need a warrant to ask for this kind of information? Yes, normally they do. Brian Krebs explains, “In the United States, when federal, state or local law enforcement agencies wish to obtain information about who owns an account at a social media firm, or what Internet addresses a specific cell phone account has used in the past, they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena.”

A new report suggests that everything from endpoints, to passwords, to training, to security policies, to a lack of awareness is all contributing to much higher risk of cyberattack.

Employee cyber risk is a multifaceted issue that revolves a lot around cyber hygiene, according to new data in Mobile Mentor’s inaugural Endpoint Ecosystem Report. It involves a number of issues that organizations are going to need to address effectively and quickly.

The video uploaded to a hacked Ukrainian news website shows how far the technology has come, how it can be used in social engineering, and how the tech still needs to improve.

While much of the headlines today around the Russian invasion of Ukraine focus on the war on the ground and in the air, a cyberwar is being waged behind the scenes. It began with wiper ransomware attacks on Ukrainian businesses and government agencies and has culminated so far with a newly released deepfake video of Ukrainian president Zelenskyy asking his troops to lay down their weapons and surrender.

With the recent cyber attacks between Russia and Ukraine and the current intelligence coming from the U.S. Government, organizations want to shore up their defenses to reduce the risk of a successful attack by any nation-state.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 52 organizations from multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.

The human cost of war is horrific. All Knowsters are shocked and saddened by the all-out Russia-Ukraine land war. However, we are also inspired by the Ukrainian people for their bravery, resistance and resilience. As we all know, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance combined with the willingness to fight back.

[Heads Up] The Ukraine War Started A New Wiper Malware Spillover Risk
 

The war in Ukraine increases the risk of wiper malware to spill over. I’m sure you remember NotPetya, which caused billions of dollars of downtime damage. The WSJ reports that Symantec observed wiper malware was put in motion just hours before Russian tanks arrived in Ukraine.

[Eye Opener] Here Are the 4 Traits of Most Scams

Written by Roger Grimes

There are a lot of scams in the world, and they seem to be proliferating at an exponential rate. My Facebook friends’ accounts are compromised all the time and I get sent scam requests for easy money. I get at least one scam message via SMS every day. My email inbox is full of phishing scams.