KnowBe4 Achieves FedRAMP Authorization from the US Federal Government

Oct 31, 2019 11:44:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

On October 25, 2019, KnowBe4 became the first and only security awareness training and simulated phishing provider to receive FedRAMP authorized status. We are very proud of this ...

Captain Awareness Has A Halloween Message For You

Oct 31, 2019 11:28:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Think Before You Click!

It's Benefits Enrollment Season Again...And That Means Prime Phishing Season!

Oct 31, 2019 11:14:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Not content just to make tax season even more miserable than it already is, malicious actors are increasingly maneuvering to capitalize on ...

[Heads-Up] North Korean Malware Found On Indian Nuclear Plant's Network

Oct 31, 2019 7:05:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I am not a happy camper. This is exactly why I have been insisting on security awareness training for employees at critical infrastructure organizations. This could have been a Real Life ...

Lessons Learned From Vishing Robocall Attacks In Mandarin

Oct 31, 2019 6:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Among the specialized forms of vishing are those that target specific language communities. Chinese-speaking people in the US and around the world are increasingly being targeted with ...

Ransomware Attack Causes School 'District-Wide Shutdown'

Oct 30, 2019 6:51:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A ransomware attack hitting Las Cruces Public Schools forced the district to shut down the entire computer system to contain the infection.

Vishing, from (not) the Bank

Oct 30, 2019 5:59:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We saw yesterday how phishing affects the financial sector. Here we see another, related trend: impersonation attacks that purport to be from the victim’s bank.

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #44 [INFOGRAPHIC] The 2019 Third Quarter Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects From KnowBe4

Oct 29, 2019 3:06:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[NEW FEATURE] KnowBe4 Assessments Help Gauge Proficiency of Your Users in Security Awareness and Sentiment Towards Security Culture

Oct 29, 2019 8:56:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Social engineering attacks continue to be the leading cause of compromised networks and data breaches. Today, organizations of all sizes are susceptible to these attacks and are ...

A Recent Spate Of Spear Phishing Attacks Is Targeting The Financial Industry

Oct 29, 2019 6:45:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks are getting harder to spot, especially as more attackers realize the value of targeted, well-crafted phishing attacks, according to Johannes Ullrich, the dean of research ...

Phishing Attack Targets Humanitarian Organizations

Oct 28, 2019 7:01:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Lookout have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including UNICEF and the Red Cross. The infrastructure ...

Phishing in Office 365's Pond

Oct 28, 2019 6:55:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Heimdal Security has come across a phishing campaign that uses compromised accounts to target Microsoft users. The attackers use email and social media accounts they’ve already breached ...

Data Breaches Devastate Small Businesses in 2019 with 10 Percent Closing Their Doors

Oct 24, 2019 2:07:25 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new report from the National Cyber Security Alliance sheds some light on how prepared small and medium size businesses are and what the aftermath of a data breach really looks like.

FBI Updates Initiative to Protect U.S. Elections from Cyberattacks

Oct 24, 2019 7:14:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

FBI has updated and expanded the resources and tools designed to help political campaigns, private businesses, and individuals to better understand and mitigate risks posed by foreign ...

CNN Says "Hack Our Reporter," and White Hat Rachel Tobac Does

Oct 24, 2019 6:54:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It’s “disturbingly easy” to steal someone’s personal data using information gleaned from their social media accounts, according to Donie O’Sullivan at CNN. O’Sullivan met with Rachel ...

What Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Can Teach Us About Phishing

Oct 23, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Perry Carpenter

One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...

Credential Phishing With a Masked URL

Oct 23, 2019 5:55:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cofense warns of a phishing campaign going after credentials for the Stripe online payment platform. The attackers are sending emails purporting to be from Stripe Support, telling the ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #43 [Heads-Up] "I Can Phish Anyone". Would You Be Able to Say This, and Would You Be Right?

Oct 22, 2019 9:42:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Q3 2019 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects from KnowBe4 [INFOGRAPHIC]

Oct 22, 2019 7:28:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 reports on the top-clicked phishing emails by subject lines each quarter in three different categories: subjects related to social media, general subjects, and 'In the Wild' - we ...

A New Strain of Tech Support Scam in the U.K.

Oct 22, 2019 6:54:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The BBC reports a tech support scam that caused a British man, Doug Varey, to lose £4,000. The scam began when Mr. Varey saw an online ad for twelve years’ worth of computer security ...

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