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The Bookmark Trap: How Discord Admins Fell Prey to Social Engineering

Brian Krebs wrote: "A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript ...

[EPIC AI FAIL] Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT

Found this highly amusing article: Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat ...

Tips from Customer Panel on Combining Security Awareness and Compliance Culture Training

At KB4-CON 2023, we had a customer panel that I hosted discussing the connection between security and compliance training content when trying to change organizational security culture.

“Magic Link” Phishing Attacks Scamming Users With Fake McAfee Renewals

Threat actors are using encoded phishing links to evade security filters, according to Jeremy Fuchs at Avanan. The phishing emails purport to be notifications from McAfee informing the ...

[Mastering Minds]  China's Cognitive Warfare Ambitions Are Social Engineering At Scale

As the world continues to evolve, so does the nature of warfare. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is increasingly focused on "Cognitive Warfare," a term referring to artificial ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from May 2023

Check out the 20 new pieces of training content added in May, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

Verizon Sends New Smishing Warning

Verizon has renewed its warnings to customers about the threat of smishing, a social engineering approach that relies upon texts as opposed to other communication channels like the email ...

[SEG Headache] More Than Half of Cybersecurity Leaders Say That Too Many Phishing Attacks Get Through

Egress, a cybersecurity company that provides intelligent email security, recently released their Email Security Risk Report 2023.

[Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Whopping 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks"

With attackers knowing financial services fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should not come as a surprise.

BatLoader Malware is Now Distributed in Drive-By Attacks

Malign persuasion can take many forms. We tend to hear the most about phishing (malicious emails) or smishing (malicious texts). Other threats are also worth some attention, like the risk ...