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2018 Winter Olympics Phishing Campaign Hides Evil PowerShell Script In Image

Jonathan, at our friends at Barkly wrote: "Hi all, according to researchers at McAfee, a new malware campaign is targeting organizations associated with the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics ...

Tennessee Hospital Hit With Cryptojacking Attack Sends Out Databreach Notification

Decatur County General Hospital is notifying 24,000 patients of cryptomining software on its EMR system. In what may be the first report I’ve seen of a hospital having their EMR server ...

KnowBe4 Introduces New Feature: Industry Benchmarking

You have probably seen our recent benchmarking study, drawn from a data set of more than six million users across over 23,000 organizations, showing real-world phishing results over time. ...

The Simulated Phishing Market Enters Early Adolescence

By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer We certainly live in fun times: Barracuda acquiring PhishLine Microsoft adding limited phishing simulation to Office 365 ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Update & New Features Summary Jan 2018

A lot of new modules have been added to the KnowBe4 ModStore: We refreshed 26 Language versions for our 15 min KMSAT course. (Available now). 20 language versions for Ransomware will be ...

Microsoft Confirms: "Sending Simulated Phishing Attacks to Your Employees Is a Must"

Well, Microsoft just legitimized the whole new-school security awareness training market. I'm pleased to note that Microsoft has finally acknowledged that organizations need to send ...

CyberheistNews Vol 8 #5 Scam of the Week: Wave of Payroll Direct Deposit Phishing Attacks

Cisco: "Cybercrime Swaps Ransomware For Cryptomining, Generating Millions"

Cisco's Talos Threat Intelligence team has a good observation. Cybercriminals can just steal CPU/GPU cycles and directly generate any cryptocurrency without infecting the system with ...

Who's Behind This Massive Wave of DDoS and Phishing Attacks Targeting Dutch Banks?

Shortly after the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper story about Netherlands Intelligence agencies compromising the prominent Russsian Cozy Bear hacking group and providing the US with ...

Phishing Messages from the Dark: When the Bad Guys Write Back

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. For most users the experience of dealing with phishing emails is a solitary experience, whether they recognize that they are under attack ...