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Which phishing emails fooled the most people? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Kevin Mitnick, our Chief Hacking Officer forwarded this great poster to me he found on Twitter today: "Which phishing emails fooled the most people?" Share it with your users!

KnowBe4 Is TampaBay's No.1 Midsize Best Place To Work 2017

I did not get much sleep last night. Too excited. Donna Winchester, Times Correspondent sent me an email yesterday that today at 5am the story would go live. What story?Where KnowBe4 ...

KnowBe4 Gets Top Award At InfoSecWorld Conference

Drum roll!!! We were given some great news last night and informed that we were honored with a top award from Black Book at the InfoSecWorld Conference in Orlando, FL. One of the nice ...

New Cerber Ransomware Starts Evading Machine Learning

A new version of the Cerber ransomware family has adopted new techniques to make itself harder to detect by endpoint security software that uses machine learning for detection. It is now ...

Gigabyte Firmware Flaws Allow the Installation of Ransomware

Now, here is an interesting one. Gigabyte BRIX are very small computers, similar to Intel NUCs, that can be used to replace those bulky desktop towers. I am using Intel NUCs myself at the ...

Samas Ransomware Deletes Veeam Backups, And Maybe Yours Too...

This month, a user on the Atlanta-based 500 million-dollar backup company Veeam community forums reported that they were hit with Samas ransomware. I am giving you the short version here: ...

Scam Of The Week: The Evil Airline Phishing Attack

Our friends at Barracuda run their Email Threat Scanner over hundreds of thousands of customer mailboxes and discovered a highly effective phishing attack that tricks a whopping 90% of ...

SecureWorks Exposes Phishing Russian Hacker Gang APT28

Atlanta-based SecureWorks has a Counter Threat Unit which has been closely watching the Russian hacker gang APT28 over the last few years and released brand new research. This group of ...

Chinese Hackers Use Fake Cellphone Tower to Spread Android Banking Trojan

Check Point Software blogged about Chinese hackers who have taken smishing to the next level, using a rogue cell phone tower to distribute Android banking malware via spoofed SMS messages.