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It was reported that last week employees in the United States have been bombarded by a spam attack that pushed a double-whammy of a sextortion attempt combined with a possible ransomware ...
The case of how the FBI turned the tables on cybercriminals using the very same tactics demonstrates how powerful the art of social engineering and deception can get a victim to act.
"The email you hope you never have to send to clients/customers" OK, so here is another horror story that you hope you can prevent from happening to your own organization. This is an ...
A recent password reset email from ShareFile (a Citrix company) put some users on edge, questioning both the emails legitimacy and why the reset.
Criminals are using the California wildfires as a social engineering tactic to manipulate people into buying gift cards supposedly intended for victims of the disaster, according to James ...
Scammers are taking advantage of Google Maps by modifying the contact information of the service’s bank listings. After replacing banks’ legitimate phone numbers with numbers of their ...
The GreyEnergy APT primarily uses phishing emails as its initial infection method, according to analysis by Nozomi Networks. The malware has been targeting industrial control systems in ...
A phishing campaign is attempting to steal login credentials from Spotify users, according to researchers at AppRiver. The emails ask users to click a hyperlink to confirm their accounts, ...
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was hacked during the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report from Politico. Republican officials said that hackers had access ...
Dark Readings annual Strategic Security Survey provides several details highlighting that organizations aren’t ready, and users aren’t helping.
OK, so here is a horror story that you can prevent from happening in your own organization. Now and then we hear that KnowBe4 customers do not make the security awareness training ...
It's all over the news, it even made the Wall Street Journal. I'm a quora participant myself and received the news directly in an email.
As predicted, the Marriott breach is heaven for bad guys. KnowBe4 customers are using the (free) Phish Alert Button to report in the wild phishing attacks using the recent news.
Cybercriminals will take advantage of any major news story if there’s a way to make money from it. But sometimes, the scam just gets a little too odd to believe.
If you have stayed in one or the following hotels in the last 4 years, it's very likely that your personal data—and even potentially your passport number—has been stolen and is available ...
The bank isn’t always responsible for making you whole after a business email compromise. Indiana’s Lake Ridge Schools lost more than $120,000 from a seven-million-dollar construction ...
A crafty mix of social engineering, great timing, and context act as the perfect ingredients to trick unwitting users into buying gift cards and placing them into the hands of the ...
So I guess we have just reached the tipping point, it's "privacy game over" for business travelers.
