OK, here is great ammo to get more IT security budget. Why? This article and infographic make it real to the C-suite that they themselves have a big phishing target on their back. You all ...
An as yet unknown American company fell victim to nearly $100 million in CEO Fraud. Employees were social engineered by spoofed emails that claimed to be one of its legitimate vendors, ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. A few days ago our friends at BleepingComputer.com announced the discovery of a new form of ransomware, which they dubbed Jigsaw ...
Cisco's Talos Labs researchers had a look into the future and described how ransomware would evolve. It's a nightmare. They created a sophisticated framework for next-gen ransomware that ...
We have several cool new features in the Spring 2016 release! These features were previously out of reach for IT managers with limited budget, and we're excited you can use them now with ...
A new ransomware strain called CryptoHost was discovered, which claims that it encrypts your data and then demands a ransom of .33 bitcoins to get your files back (~140 USD at the current ...
Ransomware is now one of the greatest threats on the internet. In the past, IT Security firms used to monitor spear-phishing attacks by espionage outfits, but these techniques are now ...
Great story by Erika Kinetz at the Associated Press. How Mattel was the victim of CEO Fraud using phishing and social engineering to trick one of their executives in China to make a $3 ...
It's happening in the UK today, and you can expect it in America tomorrow [correction- it's already happening today]. The bad guys in Eastern Europe are often using the U.K. as their beta ...
We're stoked here. We got 1st place for the Tampa Best Places To Work - small business category!!! The Tampa Bay Times has a yearly "Best Places To Work" contest, and surveys the ...
Been suspecting that your users are plugging in any USB stick they find, to see what is on it? Well, you are right, they actually do that. Fresh scientific research by Google, and the ...
A brand new Alert by the FBI on April 4th 2016 warns of a major increase in what they call business email compromise or BEC (we call it CEO Fraud), amounting to a whopping $2.3 billion in ...
[UPDATE April 10, 2016] Petya's ransomware's encryption has been defeated and a password generator has been released. See bottom of the post. March 25, news came out about a new type of ...
KnowBe4, the United States’ most popular integrated platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests, announced it attained a top spot (#220) in the Cybersecurity ...
It is now confirmed, The MedStar Hospital Chain was hit with ransomware and has received a digital ransom note. A Baltimore Sun reporter has seen a copy of the cybercriminal's demands. ...
Phishing attacks usually have a payload of infected attachments. With the recent ransomware attacks on hospitals I was asked for a press quote and the word "Attackment" suddenly came into ...
The Washington Post reported that a ransomware infection penetrated the computer network of MedStar Health early Monday morning, forcing the Washington health care behemoth to shut down ...
When a user clicks on a link in a simulated phishing attack, or opens an attachment, we record the IP address of the request. For various reasons, KnowBe4 customers have requested us to ...
