January Content Update: Including the new 2020 KnowBe4 Social Engineering Red Flags Training Module
Here are a few important updates to share with you from the month of January.
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Stay on top of the latest in security including social engineering, ransomware and phishing attacks.
Here are a few important updates to share with you from the month of January.
There was an unsuccessful phishing attempt that security professional Jeffrey Ladish almost fell for. Jeffrey was house searching and was looking on Craigslist and Zillow for rental ...
Organizations are beginning to understand the consequences of a data breach or a phishing attack and the negative impact they can really have. But what are the security risks for third ...
Ransomware is defined as vicious malware that locks users out of their devices or blocks access to files until a sum of money or ransom is paid. Ransomware attacks cause downtime, data ...
The UK’s National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has warned charities to be wary of scammers, Charity Digital News reports. The NCVO’s Road Ahead 2020 report outlines trends ...
In yet another case of business email compromise, a charity is fooled through a combination of diligence, sophistication, and social engineering.
Leveraging knowledge of industrial control systems, this relatively new ransomware variant is looking to be as disruptive as possible to operations by killing processes and encrypting ...
Cyber crime has become an arms race where the bad guys constantly evolve their attacks while you, the vigilant defender, must diligently expand your know how to prevent intrusions into ...
Scammers conned a Dutch museum into sending them £2.4 million (about $3.1 million) by posing as a real London-based art dealer who planned to sell the museum a John Constable painting, ...
Taking a page from the Maze ransomware playbook, the creators of DoppelPaymer don’t just encrypt your data; they have found channels to sell if it you don’t pay up.
With five law firms hit within just the last week, the Maze ransomware is making itself known and should be a warning to any and all legal firms that preventing an attack is paramount.
Good news!! The new ModStore is now live in the console. KnowBe4 is excited to announce the rollout of a new and improved interface for the KnowBe4 ModStore in your KnowBe4 console. The ...
A large phishing campaign is distributing malicious Excel documents and utilizing irritating pop-ups to trick users into enabling macros, researchers at Lastline have found. The campaign ...
Just when you thought everyone forgot about participation on the ill-famed cheaters website, a new phishing scam looks to use the breached data as the basis for extorting the site’s users.
Feeling like a page taken out of the SpaceX competitions, the latest shock comes from news of an underworld hacking competition intent on sharing cutting edge malicious code.
Just when we think we have a handle on our cyber insurance, the ransomware attackers have come and stirred things up again. I’m talking about the new trend in ransomware that you may not ...
New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was targeted by a spear phishing attack designed to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have ...
Take a look at that screen. Let it sink in a moment. Imagine if it were your company.
