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Eric Howes

Eric Howes


Recent Posts

Not Your Father's Tech Support Scam

Over the past month or so customers using the Phish Alert Button (PAB) have been reporting a curious wave of what initially appeared to be run-of-the-mill tech support scam emails. As it ...

Social Media & Parler in Troubling Times: New Opportunities for Malicious Actors

As most readers are undoubtedly aware, President Donald Trump has been de-platformed by major social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, following events at the U.S. Capitol ...

They're Here! COVID-19 Vaccine Phishes Finally Arrive

Anticipating that media attention surrounding the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines would undoubtedly spur malicious actors to launch new vaccine-themed phishing ...

The COVID-19 Vaccine: The Next Wave of Coronavirus Phishing Emails & What You Can Do About It

With infection rates once again soaring in the United States and other countries around the world, the race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine has generated welcome news for a population ...

All Con, All the Way Down: Bad Guys Spoof Phishing Link Hover Texts

At the heart of almost every phishing email is a spoof. In malicious emails spoofing is the art of deceptively imitating something or someone trusted by users in order to gain their ...

Threatening Election Emails Land in Florida Inboxes

If you checked the news this morning, you probably noticed a story getting plenty of play on mainstream news sites: threatening election-themed emails sent to recipients in three states, ...

[HEADS UP] Cybercriminals Launch Phishing Campaign to Capitalize on President's Health

As we predicted just a few days ago, malicious actors are now exploiting the media firestorm surrounding President Donald Trump's diagnosis late last week with COVID-19.

Malicious Actors Crash U.S. Election: Spoofed Emails Attempt to Gather U.S. Voter Registration Data

Unless you recently beamed down from Mars, you are undoubtedly aware that election season is upon us in the United States. Indeed, the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is currently ...

They're Back: Bad Guys Spoof KnowBe4 Again

Earlier this week customers using the Phish Alert Button (PAB) began reporting yet another round of spoofed KnowBe4 security awareness training emails. The emails reported are fairly ...

Malicious Actors & State Actors: IT Admins Targeted with Fake Warning Notice

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. For several years both Google and Yahoo have been warning users about potential attacks on their accounts by "state actors." Indeed, ...