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Phishing Tests Start The Virtuous Cycle Of A Strong Security Culture

Phishing tests are the catalyst to achieve a sustainable security culture within your organization. They are actually the start of a virtuous cycle that helps you move up to the highest ...
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Exponential Deepfake Porn is Out of Control And a Huge Security Risk

This year, the world of deepfake pornography is growing at an alarming rate, thanks to advances in AI and ML. Deepfakes make it look like victims are part of explicit content without ...
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9 in 10 CISOs Report at Least One Disruptive Cyberattack in the Last Year

A new report sheds light on whether CISOs have been the victim of a cyber attacks, if they're every paid a ransom, their greatest cyber concerns, and much more.
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60% of Organizations are Very Concerned About the Potential Impact of Ransomware Attacks

As the number of reported ransomware attacks increases, new data provides a fresh look at how ready organizations are for ransomware attacks.
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53% of Organizations Experienced Cyber Attacks

As increasing percentages of businesses experience cyberattacks, new data provides details on where the most organizational risk lies.
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Should You Use Controversial Simulated Phishing Test Emails?

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about using highly-emotionally charged, “controversial”, subjects in simulated phishing tests. Controversial topic examples include ...
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KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Fall 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Fall 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the PhishER platform for ...
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New Research: Phishing Remains the Most Popular Technique for Bad Actors

A report from Trustwave notes that phishing remains one of the most popular and effective techniques for attackers to gain access to organizations.
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Beware of Bogus Roborock Retailers: The Perils of Misleading URLs in E-Commerce

Roborock's online storefronts have been used for cybercrime schemes in the past, and it seems attackers are continuing to create fake online shops. After all, the Chinese-originated robot ...
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“Human-Operated” Ransomware Attacks Double in the Last Year

As attackers leave little-to-no traces of their attack patterns, more ransomware groups are shifting from automated attacks to manual attacks.
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Harvested Credentials Are Put Up for Sale Monthly on the Dark Web at a Rate of 10,000 a Month

Credential harvesting has become a business in and of itself within the cybercrime economy. New insight from Microsoft details the types of attacks your organization should watch out for.
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New Cyber Attack Techniques Will Not Replace Old-School Social Engineering

Even though there are new attack types for cybercriminals, they are still leveraging old-school attack vectors. Why? Because they still work.
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Business Email Compromise Attempts Skyrocket in the Last Year

Threat actors launched 156,000 business email compromise (BEC) attempts per day between April 2022 and April 2023, according to Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report. While most of ...
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[INFOGRAPHIC] KnowBe4’s SecurityCoach: Top 10 Integrations

Real-time security coaching helps improve your organization’s security culture by enabling real-time coaching of your users in response to risky security behaviors.
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KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Fall 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Awareness Training

We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares security awareness training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer ...
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[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] Password Security: Do Not Get Bit by Count Hackula

Our login credentials of a username and password are sometimes all that stands between our personal identifiable information and cybercriminals. Count Hackula could be waiting in the ...
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[DISINFORMATION ALERT] Israel-Hamas war causes deluge of dis- and misinformation

Social media, and it seems particularly X (former Twitter) seems to drown in an almost instant deluge of disinformation caused by the horrendous Israel-Hamas war that broke out last ...
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Smishing Triad Threat Actor Sets Its Sights on the UAE

Resecurity warns that the Smishing Triad threat actor has “vastly expanded its attack footprint” in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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