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Organizations are feeling the impact of attacks and are taking tangible steps to lock in budget specifically to address security concerns with Cloud Security seeing the largest increase.
Phishing is most commonly associated with email, but social media are quickly becoming a major hunting grounds for scammers, according to Elliot Volkman from PhishLabs. Social media ...
Tessian report finds a large amount of U.K. charity workers aren't getting proper security awareness training. Michael Moore at ITProPortal wrote: "UK charities are leaving themselves ...
Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of August!
Thousands of web servers have been infected and had their files encrypted by a new strain of ransomware named Lilocked (or Lilu).
Attackers can launch SMS phishing attacks to remotely change settings on a victim’s Android device, researchers at Check Point have found. These attacks take advantage of weak ...
Falling for social media hoaxes indicates a deeper underlying need for online awareness, according to Ben Yelin from the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security.
Highlighting the value of connecting user security awareness trainings to the critical resources those users can access
The latest method of attack uses sender familiarity to lower victim defenses and increase the potential for scams, attacks, or fraud to succeed.
The decade-old malware traditionally used to capture banking details has been given new life and spotted in the wild, being distributed via malicious Word documents.
Attackers are going after cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) providers in order to launch unusually convincing phishing campaigns, KrebsOnSecurity reports.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity targeting Hurricane Dorian disaster victims and potential ...
Trend Micro researchers have published details about a sophisticated phishing campaign they’ve named “Heatstroke.” The attackers behind Heatstroke go after victims’ private email ...
CEO Fraud—also known as Business Email Compromise—related cyber-insurance claims accounted for nearly a quarter of all claims in the EMEA region, AIG said.
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the past week we spotted something new and interesting in the malicious emails being reported to us by customers using the Phish ...
We’ve noted this particular scam before, but it’s continued to make a pest of itself, and so we bring it to your attention again. Scammers are abusing Google Calendar invites to send out ...
Aubrey Wieber at the DemocratHerald reported: "A phishing scheme succeeded in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information ...
Catherine Stupp at the Wall Street Journal reported on something we have predicted would happen in this blog. The article started out with:
Last year California passed a new law, similar to GDPR, called the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018. This law is to be implemented on January 1, 2020. Any company doing ...
