KnowBe4 Blog

Keeping you informed. Keeping you aware.
Stay on top of the latest in human and agent security including social and prompt engineering, ransomware and phishing attacks.

The Phishing-as-a-Service Economy is Thriving

Commodity phishing platforms are now a central component of the cybercriminal economy, according to researchers at Flare. These platforms allow threat actors of all skill levels to carry ...

Report: One in Ten UK Companies Wouldn’t Survive a Major Cyberattack

A new survey by Vodafone Business found that more than 10% of companies in the UK would likely go out of business if they were hit by a major cyber incident, such as a ransomware attack, ...

14.1 Million Reasons Your SEG and Email Security Tech is Failing

In the relentless growth of the phishing landscape, technical advances like AI have made attack methods two-pronged. They target technical weaknesses and use identity-based attacks to ...

Warning: A LinkedIn Phishing Campaign is Targeting Executives

A phishing campaign is abusing LinkedIn private messages to target executives and IT workers, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. The messages attempt to trick victims into opening an ...

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #05 [Heads Up] New “Fancy” QR Codes Are Making Quishing More Dangerous

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #05 | February 3rd, 2026 [Heads Up] New “Fancy” QR Codes Are Making Quishing More Dangerous QR code phishing scammers are increasingly using visually stylized QR ...

Starting the Year with Cyber Intention: Human-Centric Insights from the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026

One of my first intentional “to-dos” this year has been spending time with the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, a report I was privileged to actively contribute ...

KnowBe4 Urges Action: Take Control of Your Data this Data Privacy Week

With organizations collecting and storing massive amounts of personal data these days, much of which people share freely, we need to become better at protecting data on both the storing ...

Warning: “Fancy” QR Codes Are Making Quishing More Dangerous

Scammers are increasingly using visually stylized QR codes to deliver phishing links, Help Net Security reports. QR code phishing (quishing) is already more difficult to detect, since ...

Report: 4 in 10 Employees Have Never Received Cybersecurity Training

Forty percent of employees have never received cybersecurity training, according to a new report from Yubico. That number rises to nearly sixty percent for employees working for small ...