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Less Than 40% of Asia-Pacific Organizations Are Confident to Stop Cyber Threats as 83% Experience At Least One Ransomware Attack a Year

With exactly half of cybersecurity incidents caused by organizations having an outdated security posture, the ability to stop breaches involves some re-investment in measures that really ...

Anna Collard, SVP Content Strategy & Evangelist, KnowBe4 Africa Has Been Acknowledged as a Global Influencer in Cyber

IFSEC Global recently acknowledged our very own Anna Collard as a IFSEC Global Influencer in Security for 2022! She was one of the few nominated by a panel of highly respected judges, and ...

A Closer Look at HR Scams: Does Niceness Have a Downside?

Threat actors are targeting HR employees who are looking to hire new people, according to Lisa Vaas at Contrast Security. As part of their job, HR employees frequently interact with ...

Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Former Israeli Officials

An Iranian threat actor is conducting a spear phishing operation against Israeli officials, according to researchers at Check Point. The targets have included the former Foreign Minister ...

Monkeypox Scams Continue to Increase

Attackers are taking advantage of the current news about monkeypox to trick people into clicking on malicious links, Pickr reports. Researchers at Mimecast have spotted a phishing ...

Facebook Phishing Scam Steals Millions of Credentials

Researchers at PIXM have uncovered a major Facebook Messenger phishing scam that’s “potentially impacted hundreds of millions of Facebook users.” More than eight million people have ...

Approaching Ransomware Victims Privately

Researchers at KELA warn that ransomware gangs are increasingly refraining from mentioning their victims’ names after the initial attack, giving the victims a chance to pay up before the ...

What About Password Manager Risks?

In KnowBe4’s new Password Policy ebook, What Your Password Policy Should Be, we recommend that all users use a password manager to create and use perfectly random passwords. A perfectly ...

Karakurt Adds Irritating Phone Calls to its Crimes

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its partners have issued a joint alert on Karakurt, a data theft extortion group that harasses victims’ employees, ...