With 30+ years experience as a computer security consultant, instructor, and award-winning author, Roger has dedicated his life to making sure you’re prepared to defend against ever-present IT security threats like phishing.

Join Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist where he’ll share a comprehensive strategy for phishing mitigation. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more. Now they’re more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous. Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. New-school security awareness training can ensure your users are up-to-date on the latest attack types.Ī Master Class on IT Security: Roger Grimes Teaches You Phishing Mitigation Continued user education is essential to ensure phishing and ransomware attacks do not infect your organization in the future. Unfortunately, this will not be the last time a user tries to obtain cracked software from a warez site. We recently covered a story from a few months ago that a Ryuk strain has a worm-like feature in your Window LAN devices, and the ransomware-as-a-service gang has only gotten more devious in their schemes. Ryuk ransomware is not to be messed with. This attack lost the institute a week's worth of research data and a week-long network outage as servers were rebuilt from scratch and data restored from backups. The illegal download resulted in an infection with an information-stealing trojan that stole the credentials needed by Ryuk cybercriminals to log into the institute and wreak havoc.

Instead of buying a legit license, the student proceeded to search for a cracked version and downloaded it. The student had searched for data visualization software that they wanted to install at home. We've seen ransomware distributed in the past through cryptocurrency miners but this type of 'crack site' attack takes ransomware attacks to a whole other level. End-User Attempt to Pirate Software Leads to Ryuk Ransomware Attackīleeping Computer recently reported that an end user in a research institute -a student in this case- attempted to pirate expensive data visualization software, which resulted in a Ryuk ransomware attack.

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