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Varieties of Extortion Experience

We are all familiar with ransomware and its increasingly dangerous cousin, wiper malware. The first encrypts your files and demands ransom payments in exchange for the decryption key. The ...

Here Are Some Interesting Headlines I Found During Black Hat

Black Hat 2019 - The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw: I ran into Neil Rubenking when I went to the Qualys party which was in the Foundation Room all the way on top of the ...

Business Email Compromise Doubles in Incidents and Triples in Cost

The latest data from the U.S. government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) shows fraud via business email is changing tactics and becoming more effective.

Email Attacks are Having A Major Impact on Business with Employees Seen as a Major Weak Link

With 82% of organizations facing an attempted email-based security threat in the past year, the impacts of these attacks are material and potentially harmful to the organization.

CEO Fraud hits B.C. lawyers for $2 million

Two B.C. law firms were targets of so-called social engineering frauds causing almost $2 million in real estate and investment funds to be wired to people other than clients the firms ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content & Features Updates - July 2019

Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of July!

Confirm Your Unsubscribe Request? Not So Fast

An email phishing campaign that BleepingComputer describes as “long-running” has shown a distinct uptick recently. The phishbait in the subject line will read something like this: ...

Bad Guys Exploit CapitalOne Breach to Push Backdoor Trojan

The bad guys are now exploiting news of the CapitalOne breach to push a malicious backdoor trojan via a phishing email purporting to offer a Windows Security Update. See the attached ...

Pleading Guilty to Business Email Compromise

Amil Hassan Raage has taken a guilty plea to charges of fraud in a business email compromise (aka CEO fraud) case that netted him and his criminal co-conspirators almost three-quarters of ...

[NEW PhishER Feature] Identify Email Threats Even Faster with PhishML™

We are excited to announce the availability of PhishML™ as part of the PhishER platform to all PhishER customers. PhishML is a new machine-learning module that helps you identify and ...