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23May
Special Advisory: Hawaii Government Contractors Currently Under Attack by Criminals
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Special Advisory: Hawaii Government Contractors Currently Under Attack by Criminals

This is a special advisory Over the past week we have noticed a spike in attacks targeting local businesses that may be a prime or subcontractor for government work. We…

12May
FBI says business email theft is now a $43 billion scam
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

FBI says business email theft is now a $43 billion scam

Good morning, Last week the FBI reported that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) scams continues to grow each year, with a 65% increase in the…

06May
Recording Just In - Cybersecurity & Must Do's for Hawaii Employers
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Recording Just In - Cybersecurity & Must Do's for Hawaii Employers

Good morning! There was a huge turn out at the last ProService live webcast: Cybersecurity & Must Do’s for Hawaii Employers. As a panelist, we discussed and shared real world…

21Apr
Cybersecurity & Must Do's for Hawaii Employers
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Cybersecurity & Must Do's for Hawaii Employers

  Good morning! Not sure if you’ve heard, but I’m going to be a panelist on tomorrow’s Proservice live webcast: Cybersecurity & Must Do’s for Hawaii Employers. We’ll be discussing…

14Apr
Cyber criminals thwarted from disrupting Oahu telecommunications
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Cyber criminals thwarted from disrupting Oahu telecommunications

Not sure if you’ve heard the news, but we were featured on KITV yesterday and talked about the coordinated cyberattack on the undersea cable that connects Hawaii to the rest…

08Apr
YouTube fraudsters steal $1.7M in fake 'giveaway' scheme
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

YouTube fraudsters steal $1.7M in fake 'giveaway' scheme

YouTube fraudsters are at it again – this promising to give away free cryptocurrency (such as Bitcoin) by targeting unsuspecting victims. The scam gang ran 36 YouTube streams between February 16…

01Apr
Patch your Apple devices ASAP
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Patch your Apple devices ASAP

Yesterday Apple rushed out patches on a set of newly discovered 0-day vulnerabilities found on its MacOS and iOS devices. This latest set of bugs could allow threat actors to…

25Mar
New Tax scams targeting your phone apps
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

New Tax scams targeting your phone apps

Threat actors are impersonating personal-finance apps to fool people into giving up their private information It’s tax season, and just like every year, it’s rife with scams. Usually we see…

17Mar
Watch out for phony Instagram ‘Support’ Emails
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Watch out for phony Instagram ‘Support’ Emails

A new credential harvesting email scam has emerged, this time impersonating Instagram tech support, threatening to shut down your account for sharing “fake content.  This latest scam was discovered last…

11Mar
Beware of infected fakes in Microsoft Store
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Beware of infected fakes in Microsoft Store

The new Electron Bot backdoor malware can take over you social-media accounts – including Facebook, Google and Soundcloud and has infiltrated Microsoft’s official store by cloning popular games such as…

03Mar
New 'Help Ukraine' scams have arrived
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

New 'Help Ukraine' scams have arrived

This week scammers began targeting unsuspecting users via phishing webpages, forum posts, and email links enticing users to “help Ukraine” by donating The development follows Ukraine’s successful effort of raising…

24Feb
Beware of Microsoft Teams sending computer takeover trojans
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Beware of Microsoft Teams sending computer takeover trojans

Cyber criminals are targeting Microsoft Teams users, planting malicious documents into chat, allowing them to take over computers Microsoft Teams has had surge in use over the COVID-19 pandemic, especially…

18Feb
Patch your Chrome's zero-day vulnerability ASAP
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Patch your Chrome's zero-day vulnerability ASAP

This week Google released an urgent update for their Chrome browser, patching a zero-day exploit that was being jumped on by attackers in the wild Google has stated that the…

11Feb
JIT for V-Day, FTC reports record losses for victims of romance scams
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

JIT for V-Day, FTC reports record losses for victims of romance scams

Just in time for Valentine’s Day – a new report released yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that it measured a sharp increase in losses linked to romance scams…

04Feb
Filing taxes online with Intuit this year? You're a target.
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Filing taxes online with Intuit this year? You're a target.

A barrage of cybercriminal activity is already underway this tax season with a phishing campaign impersonating Intuit, the popular accounting and tax-filing software. Just this week Intuit posted 2 critical…

27Jan
FBI warns of surge in malicious QR codes
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

FBI warns of surge in malicious QR codes

QR codes have become the new normal for contactless transactions during the pandemic and the FBI is now warning the public that cybercriminals are capitalizing on this technology’s lax security…

20Jan
Beware of fake government contracting websites
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Beware of fake government contracting websites

A new phishing campaign is targeting federal contractors with an invitation to bid on various fake federal projects with the U.S. Department of Labor Emails branded to look like legitimate…

13Jan
Happy Zero Day to you!
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Happy Zero Day to you!

This January’s Patch Tuesday release is nearly double the average, including 97 security vulnerabilities and 6 zero-day exploits If your company machines are protected by our Total Security service, your…

06Jan
FBI warns of new Google Voice scam tsunami
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

FBI warns of new Google Voice scam tsunami

The FBI is receiving a tsunami of reports of malicious Google Voice scams So, here’s how the scam works: Let’s say that your your fur baby, Mr. Pickles goes missing.…

17Dec
Takeaways from KHON2 Cyber Attacks and Holiday Hacks segment
By Cylanda Watchtowerin CyberSecurity

Takeaways from KHON2 Cyber Attacks and Holiday Hacks segment

Earlier this week we were interviewed by Dallis Ontiveros from the KHON2 news crew about the latest cyber attacks on Hawaii critical infrastructure and how companies should best protect themselves…

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Special Advisory: Hawaii Government Contractors Currently Under Attack by Criminals
May 2022 by Cylanda Watchtower
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FBI says business email theft is now a $43 billion scam
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