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Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams

A survey from Trustmi found that most employees believe they’d be able to spot a social engineering attack, but those same employees still rely primarily on outdated guidance to spot red ...

The Talent Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime

"Someone online shows them a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls them in. Everyone's doing it. It feels like skill, not crime."

Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever

AI agents offer unprecedented capabilities, speed, automation, deep context, and hyper-personalization, that will transform how we work. However, these same capabilities make AI agents ...

Why You Can’t Arrest Your Way Out of Youth Cybercrime

Two days at INTERPOL on youth cybercrime, why offender prevention is real police work and why it has to out-recruit rather than out-threaten.

[FREE RESOURCE KIT] Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kit 2026 Now Available

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Equip your team with the intel they need to stay ahead of global threat actors and threats such as social engineering and AI deepfakes.

Introducing Real-Time Coaching in KnowBe4’s AI-Native Security Awareness Training

Attackers are getting smarter. AI is making social engineering more convincing, more personalized, and harder to spot than ever before. Training the digital workforce, employees and ...

The Blind Spot: How “Bulletproof” Phishing Redirectors Slip Past SEGs

By Shikhar Dalela and Jeewan Singh Jalal The operators named the kit themselves. Buried inside compromised legitimate websites, the hidden staging directory is sometimes literally called ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Compliance Plus Content Updates from July 2026

Fran Roberts - Studios General Manager, KnowBe4 Bribery and corruption do not always look the way people expect. They rarely show up as a suitcase of cash or an obvious quid pro quo. More ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from July 2026

Fran Roberts - Studios General Manager, KnowBe4 Twenty years across studios, agencies and global production environments, sitting through more fire drills and real fires than I can count, ...

AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It.

This year National Social Engineering Day falls on Aug. 6. This day is designed to give us an opportunity to remind people that cybercriminals do not always need sophisticated malware, an ...