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We are excited to announce the availability of KnowBe4’s new localization options for the Admin Console and Learner Experience. You can now set your default language for three ...
Two alleged members of North Korea's military intelligence services were accused of hacking banks and companies in the U.S. and several other countries. The grand total for this scheme is ...
Malvertisers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the browser engine used by Safari and other iOS apps, according to Eliya Stein at Confiant. The vulnerability, which was patched earlier ...
Some bug bounty seekers are using extortionist or fear-mongering tactics in an effort to get paid for reporting trivial flaws, according to Chester Wisniewski at Sophos. He calls them ...
Learning from last year’s shift to a remote workforce can help dictate how operations should evolve. New data from Microsoft points at the need to better secure remote workers.
You may have missed this extremely interesting bit of data that ZDNet just published. "Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on security vendors and more took the combined power of at ...
Microsoft is still the most impersonated brand for phishing campaigns, according to researchers at Vade Secure. The security firm spotted 30,621 unique Microsoft-related phishing URLs in ...
Be aware of being involved in malicious CAPTCHA solving.
Video game studio CD Projekt Red, makers of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, have disclosed a ransomware attack, WIRED reports. The attackers claimed to have stolen source code for ...
Pretending to be security researchers themselves, this group of cybercriminals went to great lengths to make sure legitimate security researchers would fall for the attack.
Taking advantage of people’s need for financial assistance, these scammers pose as a bank offering “forgivable business loans to individuals impacted by the pandemic.”
Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...
Increased communication and collaboration among cybercrime groups is heightening the ransomware threat for the healthcare sector, according to the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTI ...
The Conversation just published something I have been worried about for a while now. Scary? Could be getting that way sometime soon. They said: "Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning ...
Valentine’s Day-themed phishing campaigns are spiking, researchers at Check Point warn. There was a 29% increase in Valentine’s Day-related phishing domains last month, compared to a 6% ...
Spear phishing emails remain a top attack vector for the bad guys, yet most companies still don’t have an effective strategy to stop them.
You have to look at the totality of an email to determine whether it is a phishing attack or not.
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK recently sent a warning that cybercriminals are using social engineering tactics to target people wanting a COVID-19 vaccine email that is ...
Google has found that most phishing attacks (42%) target Gmail users in the US. Users in the UK were the second most targeted, with 10% of attacks. Japan came in third with 5% of phishing ...
Yes – you read that right: Cybercriminals have found a way to use 1830’s technology to trick 2020s security solutions into not identifying phishing attachments as malicious.
