Ever since Microsoft’s initial announcement on February 13, 2025, about a Russian nation-state phishing campaign using "device code phishing," many people have been wondering what it is. ...
Right now, today, thousands of people are being tricked into going to their banks or credit unions to withdraw large sums of cash and will give or send it to a complete stranger, never to ...
There are thousands of people worldwide trying to scam you, hoping they can make you a victim, steal your money, and harm you in some way. While some of it is done by individuals or small ...
My two previous recent postings on AI covered “Agentic AI” and how that impacts cybersecurity and the eventual emergence of malicious agentic AI malware.
I infrequently get emails from customers who are frustrated because their employer sent out some legitimate mass email to all employees that unfortunately had all the hallmarks of a ...
I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for over 36 years. Surprisingly, hackers and malware haven't changed all that much.
Ever since OpenAI publicly released ChatGPT in late 2022, people have been predicting the end of programmers.
If you haven’t been paying attention closely enough, a new type of access control token, like a super browser token on steroids, is becoming hackers' theft target of choice.
You would think with all the global press we have received because of our public announcement of how we mistakenly hired a North Korean fake employee in July 2024, followed by our ...
Social engineering and phishing are involved in 70% - 90% of data breaches. No other root cause of malicious hacking (e.g., unpatched software and firmware, eavesdropping, cryptography ...
I have helped people detect romance scams for decades. It is still very common for romance scammers to leverage both pictures of celebrities and pictures of innocent, everyday people as ...
KnowBe4 is a big believer in focusing on decreasing human risk as the best way to decrease cybersecurity risk in most environments.
There is a type of scam where victims are contacted by someone fraudulently posing as a popular trusted entity (e.g., Amazon, U.S. Post Office, etc.), law enforcement, or an intelligence ...
Some of our customers are reporting “Threat Alerts” from Mimecast stating hackers have exploited KnowBe4 or KnowBe4 domains to send email threats.
For decades, we have all been warned to be appropriately skeptical of internet search engine results. Sadly, most people are not.
Frequently, when a cybersecurity training manager sends out a controversial simulated phishing attack message that angers a bunch of employees and ends up making headlines, we get called ...
We are excited to see the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and outgoing Director Jen Easterly strongly recommend PHISHING-RESISTANT multi-factor authentication (MFA).
About five years ago, I was having trouble with an expensive brand-name refrigerator that my wife and I had bought. It was a great refrigerator feature-wise. My wife and I initially loved ...
In my most recent book, Fighting Phishing: Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing, I highlight the use of “champions," which are co-workers in your organization ...
Learn how to step-by-step create your first realistic deepfake video in a few minutes.
