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RSA did a revealing ransomware risk-reward analysis. See that $6 million number over to the right? Why does cybercrime like ransomware so much? Low Risk, High Payoff From the bad guy's ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher Just two weeks after we reported that the bad guys had effectively converted LinkedIin into a phishing platform, Facebook once again found ...
KnowBe4, the world's most popular platform for new-school security awareness training was named a finalist in the SC Awards 2017 for exemplary professional leadership in cybersecurity. ...
Crysis decryption keys posted The decryption keys of the Crysis ransomware were posted on Pastebin, which allows victims to decrypt their hijacked files without paying. Crysis was ...
We get thousands of real phishing emails in, reported to us by customers using the free KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button. On a daily basis, these reported phishing emails get analyzed by the ...
Michael Kan at CSO reported on a TrustWave blog post with some troublesome news: "Hotel and restaurant chains, beware. A notorious cybercriminal gang is tricking businesses into ...
Do your users know what to do when they receive a suspicious email? Should they call the help desk, or forward it? Should they forward to IT including all headers? Delete and not report ...
Some very good news! Tampa Bay, FL — November 16, 2016 — KnowBe4, provider of the world’s most popular platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing attacks, today ...
Your end-users may have seen this in the news yesterday, or will read about it today. A massive data breach of the adult dating and entertainment company Friend Finder Network has exposed ...
In late October, three of the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) hospitals’ computer systems were attacked by malware that forced the hospital to cancel scheduled surgeries and divert ...
The shoe retailer Foot Locker Inc. has three iPhone apps. But that did not stop an entity calling itself Footlocke Sports Co., Ltd. from offering 16 shoe and clothing apps in the App ...
by Eric Howes (Principal Lab Researcher) & Ryann Falke (Sales Development Representative) Last week we documented several interesting credentials phishes delivered through LinkedIn ...
So, you downloaded KnowBe4's Ransomware Simulator test and your antivirus security software failed one or more of the ransomware scenarios. When this happens we almost always get asked: ...
It's not all doom and gloom!
Graham Cluley was the first to report on a new Locky ransomware phishing attack where the emails claim to be "credit card suspended" and "suspicious money movement" warnings. He said: "In ...
Malwarebytes Researcher Jerome Segura reported on a new Tech Support scam that uses a known HTML5 bug to freeze the system and trick people to call a fake support number. Note, it does ...
During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, city officials revealed that cybercriminals pretending to be a vendor scammed the city's Accounts Receivable Department out of about $3 ...
A new version of the Nymaim malware family targets high-level managers with attached malicious Word documents and drops ransomware and banking trojans. The cyber research team at Verint ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago we blogged about a startling discovery by threat researchers at Proofpoint: the bad guys had figured out a way to turn ...
