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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

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% ...

Attackers Use Passkey-Themed Phishing to Breach Cloud Environments

Researchers at Microsoft are tracking a social engineering campaign that uses passkey-themed lures to trick users into granting persistent access to their accounts and online work ...

Phishing Emails Use New Technique to Bypass Microsoft 365 Security Filters

Threat actors are using phishing emails with blank SMTP sender fields to bypass Microsoft 365 security filters, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online uses ...

Social Engineering Campaign Uses Phony NDAs to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Gen Digital are tracking a sophisticated social engineering campaign that’s using phony NDA documents to trick employees into moving the conversation to WhatsApp and ...

Warning: “Slop Squatting” Directs AI Users to Phishing Pages

Threat actors are increasingly leveraging AI hallucinations to plant phishing links and other malicious content in AI output, IEEE Spectrum reports. Large language models (LLMs) sometimes ...

FBI Alert: OAuth Consent Phishing is Targeting Users of Messaging Apps

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an advisory warning of a wave of OAuth consent phishing attacks targeting “prominent victims, their family members, and personal ...