Author: Cylanda Watchtower

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…