Charisse Castagnoli

April 27, 2017

Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

This post was originally published on this siteThe process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if — at settlement — your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here’s the story about a phishing email that cost a couple their home and left them scrambling for months to recover hundreds of thousands in cash that went missing. It was late November 2016, and Jon and Dorothy Little were all set to close on a $200,000 home in […]
July 24, 2018

Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

This post was originally published on this siteHackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 million total. Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. According to a lawsuit filed last month in the Western District of Virginia, the first heist took place in late May 2016, after an employee at The National Bank of Blacksburg fell victim to a targeted phishing email. The email allowed the intruders to install malware on the victim’s PC […]