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KnowBe4 Team

KnowBe4 Team

The KnowBe4 Team delivers timely, expert-driven insights on cybersecurity trends, emerging threat intelligence, human risk and agent security best practices, compliance strategies and industry research to help organizations strengthen their digital defense layer and stay informed, resilient, and secure.


Recent Posts

Report: Social Engineering Attacks Are Increasingly Using Audio and Video Deepfakes

41% of CISOs said an audio deepfake targeted their organization within the last 12 months, according to a new survey by Gartner. Additionally, 36% of respondents said employees were ...

FBI Alert: Phishing Attacks Are Impersonating Law Enforcement

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert warning that widespread fraud campaigns are impersonating law enforcement or government officials to trick users into ...

Warning: New Phishing Kit Targets Sales Teams

Threat actors are using a new phishing kit called “GhostCode” to target sales teams with phony business inquiries, according to researchers at eSentire. The threat actors begin the attack ...

AI-Generated Phishing Pages Are Impersonating Antivirus Services

Scammers are using AI to generate phishing pages that impersonate antivirus products, according to Malwarebytes.

Sophisticated Phishing Operation Continues to Thrive Following FBI Takedown

China-based cybercriminals are using a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service platform called the “Outsider Phishing Kit” to launch massive phishing campaigns around the world, according to ...

AI-Assisted Phishing Campaign Sent Over A Million Personalized Emails

Researchers at Microsoft are tracking an AI-assisted phishing campaign that sent over a million emails attempting to conduct payment diversion scams.

Millions of Phishing Emails Use ASCII Smuggling to Bypass Security Filters

A massive phishing campaign is using invisible Unicode tag characters to evade security filters, according to researchers at Microsoft. This technique, known as “ASCII smuggling,” has ...

Alert: AI is Accelerating Targeted Social Engineering Attacks

AI tools are drastically improving the speed of the reconnaissance stage of targeted social engineering attacks, according to researchers at ESET. Attackers can use these tools to trawl ...

Warning: New Phishing Kit Targets Hundreds of Organizations

Attackers have used a new phishing platform called “BigBear 2.0” to target hundreds of organizations across more than forty countries, according to researchers at CloudSEK. In about 10% ...