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Eric Howes

Eric Howes


Recent Posts

Phishing with Slack-Files.com: Bad Guys Find Yet Another Free Host for Malicious Files

Slack, the ubiquitous communication and collaboration platform, has been getting more and more attention over the past few months as a potential phishing platform and target for malicious ...

An Embarrassment of Riches: Malicious Actors Target AWS Accounts

Amazon is an obvious target for malicious actors looking to leverage the trust and authority enjoyed by a widely known online service or brand in malicious emails and social engineering ...

Phishing with Canva: Bad Guys Exploit Graphic Design Platform

Late last year we reported that Microsoft Sway, an online presentation program, was being exploited by malicious actors to host malicious files used in phishing attacks. Since then, ...

FOLLOWUP: Small Business Administration Phishing Campaign

On Wednesday August 12 the Dept. of Homeland Security issued an alert concerning a phishing campaign using malicious spoofs of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) web site. The ...

SBA Phishing: Malicious Actors "Return to Roots" in the Hunt for Money

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate news headlines as well as the development of malicious email attacks designed to separate ...

Re-Opening the American Economy? Malicious Actors Have a Plan...

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. If you've been following the news over the past week or so then you know that a robust debate has opened at federal, state, and local ...

Struggling with the Whole WFH Thing? Fear Not! The Bad Guys are Here to Help!

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal Lab Researcher. Over the past month we have provided readers with regular updates on the growth and development of Coronavirus-themed phishing emails ...

They're Here! COVID-19 Stimulus Check Phishes Finally Arrive

Last week the FBI warned Americans to be on the look-out for malicious emails attempting to bamboozle users with news surrounding economic fiscal stimulus checks that were to be delivered ...

[Heads-Up] Feeding Frenzy: COVID-19 Phishing Attacks Surge as U.S. Reels from Pandemic

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Having already published three blog pieces on the epidemic of Coronavirus-themed phishing emails and spam/scam offerings online (see HERE, ...

Secret Service Warning: Exploiting the Coronavirus for Fraud and Profit.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. On Monday of this week we published a review of the coronavirus-themed emails that had been reported to us by customers using the Phish ...