TraderTraitor: When States do Social Engineering
North Korea’s Lazarus Group is using social engineering attacks to target users of cryptocurrency, according to a joint advisory from the US FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group is using social engineering attacks to target users of cryptocurrency, according to a joint advisory from the US FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
New data from Recorded Future shows how the war in Ukraine is causing a brief slowdown of ransomware attacks on healthcare, governments and schools that is predicted to return to growing ...
A new study published by Ponemon Institute shows that a material portion of organizations are still using pre-pandemic security processes and policies, putting the org at risk.
The FBI has warned of a smishing campaign that’s targeting people in the US with phony bank fraud notifications. The text messages inform users that someone has attempted to initiate a ...
A phishing campaign is targeting African banks with a technique called “HTML smuggling” to bypass security filters, according to threat researchers at HP.
Attackers are spamming multifactor authentication (MFA) prompts in an attempt to irritate users into approving the login, Ars Technica reports. Both criminal and nation-state actors are ...
KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. We analyze the top categories, general subjects (in both the United States and globally), and 'in the ...
As ransomware costs increase, along with the effectiveness and use of extortions, smaller businesses are paying the price, according to new data from Webroot.
New data from the U.K. Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2022 report shows that a material portion of businesses and charities are being attacked and feeling the repercussions.
Impersonating legitimate companies and using a complex mix of fake personas across Facebook, Telegram, and other platforms, these groups used social engineering to gain network access.
Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted yet another scam taking advantage of the crisis in Ukraine by impersonating a legitimate charity. In this case, the scammers are posing as the ...
CyberheistNews Vol 12 #15 | Apr. 12th., 2022 [Heads Up] Hard-boiled Social Engineering by a Fake "Emergency Data Request" Bloomberg has reported that forged "Emergency Data Requests" last ...
Organizations in the US lost $2.4 billion to business email compromise (BEC) scams (also known as CEO fraud) last year, according to Alan Suderman at Fortune.
Taking advantage of the value of a legitimate web service, along with a valid SSL certificate, a new campaign of phishing attack targeting online Microsoft credentials is leveraging Azure.
We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares Security Awareness Training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer ...
We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Spring 2022 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the fourth consecutive ...
Skyrocketing attack rates, double and triple extortion, increasing ransom demands… cybercriminals are inflicting pain in every way imaginable when it comes to today’s ransomware attacks. ...
A phishing campaign impersonating WhatsApp has targeted more than 27,000 mailboxes, according to researchers at Armorblox. It’s not clear who the attackers were, but they used an old ...
New insights into the state of data security show a clear focus on the weakest part of your security stance – your users – and organizations doing little to address it.