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Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Facebook Business Accounts

Researchers at WithSecure have discovered a spear phishing campaign targeting employees who have access to Facebook Business accounts. The attackers are targeting specific employees, and ...

IBM: Phishing is the Most Common Way to Gain Access to Victim Networks

New research from IBM shows four reasons why phishing attacks are still effective and remains the primary attack vector in 41% of cyberattacks.

KnowBe4 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects for Q2 2022 [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. We analyze 'in the wild' attacks reported via our Phish Alert Button, top subjects globally clicked on in ...

Nearly Half of Organizations Have Experienced Vishing

Forty-seven percent of organizations have experienced voice phishing (vishing) attacks over the past year, according to researchers at Mutare. Additionally, the researchers found that ...

New Report Reveals that Ransomware and Business Email Compromise Attacks Cause Nearly 70% of Cyber Incidents

Do you know your organizations true security risk and where to prioritize your resources? A new report from Palo Alto Networks sheds some light on these questions and shows multiple ...

[BEWARE] Microsoft and Facebook are the Most Abused Brands for Phishing Attempts

We all know that big brands can be exploited by bad actors in order to execute successful phishing attacks. Now a new study is showing phishing attacks leveraging big brands Microsoft and ...

Malvertising With Google Ads

Researchers at Malwarebytes warn that a large malvertising campaign is exploiting Google ads to redirect users to phishing sites.

Microsoft USB Scam Shows the Importance of Security Awareness Training

Just when you thought scammers couldn't get more tricky in their attacks, this example will prove you wrong. One of our KnowBe4 colleagues shared this LinkedIn post on a recent very ...

Ransomware Groups Get Smaller and More Social

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack of 2021 put infrastructure operators on notice that they were directly in the crosshairs of big ransomware gangs. The reaction of law enforcement ...