KnowBe4’s Record Q3 2017 Performance Fueled by Innovation and Increased Demand

Some excellent news. We announced record results for our Q3 2017, sales were 2.63X greater than Q3 2016. Q3 2017 marks our 18th straight quarter of growth, driven by an increasing ...

October 2, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Bitdefender Creates Ransomware Recognition Tool

The AV vendor created a free tool to help ransomware victims find which family and sub-version of ransomware has encrypted their data and then get the appropriate decryption tool, if it ...

September 29, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Whole Foods Point Of Sale Data Breach. Did Amazon Buy An Organic Lemon?

Uh Oh. They just announced. Generally it's the tip of the iceberg, and then over time more details are released that show it was muuuch worse than initially expected. Looks like Amazon ...

September 29, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

New Locky Ransomware Strain Evades Machine Learning Security Software

Here is the latest tactic in the cat-and-mouse game between cybercrime and security software vendors. The bad guys have come up with new a ransomware phishing attack, tricking users to ...

September 28, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Europol warns ransomware has taken cybercrime ‘to another level’

Europol, the European Union’s police agency, has warned of the significantly rising threat posed by ransomware. As Associated Press reports, delegates at an international conference were ...

September 28, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Data points from Risk IQ Q2 Phishing Roundup

Threat Management Provider Risk IQ released data comparing the use of top 10 brands names in Phishing attacks from Q1 and Q2, 2017. The report doesn’t name the top ten brands favored by ...

September 24, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Scam of The Week: "Fake-tortion" Phishing Attacks

OK, this is a heads-up about a new aggressive form of email attack that you need to warn your employees, friends and family about. The bad guys have beta-tested and refined it in ...

September 24, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Equifax appears to be training recipients to fall for phishing scams

Brian Krebs wrote: "More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit ...

September 22, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Massive Spam Campaigns Push New Locky Ransomware With Doubled Ransom

Bleepingcomputer posted: "Reports are coming in from multiple security researchers and security firms about increased activity from one of the groups spreading the Locky ransomware. These ...

September 22, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Nearly 1.5 Million New Phishing Sites Created Each Month

The September 2017 Webroot Quarterly Threat Trends Report showed that 1.385 million new, unique phishing sites are created each month, with a high of 2.3 million sites created in May. The ...

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