WeChat Phishing Attacks a Growing Threat Outside China
Lead analysts: Cameron Sweeney, Lucy Gee, Louis Tiley, James Dyer “Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to ...
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Lead analysts: Cameron Sweeney, Lucy Gee, Louis Tiley, James Dyer “Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to ...
Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Anand Bodke Since November 3, 2025, KnowBe4 Threat Labs has been monitoring a highly sophisticated, multi-stage phishing ...
Lead analysts: Louis Tiley, Lucy Gee and James Dyer Between 1:48pm ET on October 29 and 6:53pm ET on October 30, 2025, KnowBe4 threat analysts observed a high volume of phishing emails ...
Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Anand Bodke KnowBe4 Threat Labs has uncovered an emerging advanced phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users ...
Lead Analysts: Lucy Gee and James Dyer Cybercriminals want their payday. Unfortunately for the targets of phishing (and the organizations they work for) that means they’re constantly ...
Below is an example of a sophisticated survey scam phishing email that KnowBe4’s Threat Lab team has been monitoring as discussed in “The Hidden Cost of "Free" Gifts: How Survey Scams Are ...
You've probably seen them: enticing online offers for free products from brands you trust, like a Yeti beach chair from Costco or an emergency car kit from AAA.
In this series, we first explored the psychology that makes HR phishing so effective, then showcased the real-world lures attackers use to trick your employees. Now, we’re going under the ...
Phishing attacks impersonating HR are on the rise. Between January 1 – March 31, 2025, our Threat Lab team observed a 120%surge in these attacks reported via our PhishER product versus ...
We all trust HR - or at least we do when we think they’re emailing us! Data from KnowBe4’s HRM+ platform reveals that phishing simulations with internal subject lines dominate the list of ...
Lead Researchers: James Dyer and Louis Tiley Between May 5 and May 7, 2025, KnowBe4 Threat Lab identified a phishing campaign originating from accounts created on the legitimate service ...
The KnowBe4 Threat Lab has identified an active phishing campaign impersonating Capital One.
The FBI is warning that threat actors are impersonating senior US officials in phishing attacks designed to compromise users’ accounts.
Since March 2025, the KnowBe4 Threat Labs team has observed a surge in phishing attacks that exploit Google’s AppSheet platform to launch a highly targeted, sophisticated campaign ...
KnowBe4 ThreatLabs has identified and analyzed a sophisticated cross-platform phishing campaign that utilizes Telegram as its primary exfiltration channel. The campaign uses a combination ...
First QuickBooks, then Microsoft, and now Google—will the hijacking of legitimate third-party platform communications stop escalating in 2025? Our Threat Labs researchers predict the ...
Cybercriminals are quick to exploit seasonal events — and tax season is no exception. It’s a yearly honeypot for cybercriminals, who take advantage of heightened stress, tight deadlines, ...
A KnowBe4 Threat Lab Publication Authors: By James Dyer, Threat Intelligence Lead at KnowBe4 and Lucy Gee, Cybersecurity Threat Researcher at KnowBe4 On March 3, 2025, the KnowBe4 Threat ...
A KnowBe4 Threat Lab publication Authors: Martin Kraemer, Jeewan Singh Jalal, Anand Bodke, and James Dyer EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We observed a 98% rise in phishing campaigns hosted on Russian ...
A KnowBe4 Threat Labs Publication Authors: James Dyer and Cameron Sweeney The KnowBe4 Threat Research team has observed a sustained increase in the use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) ...