Phishing Attacks Are Using Real Hotel Reservation Info to Target Travelers

Scammers are using legitimate hotel booking details to craft targeted phishing attacks, WIRED reports. Victims are far more likely to fall for a phishing attack if a message contains real ...

March 30, 2026 KnowBe4 Team

Report: There Are Nearly 66 Billion Stolen Identity Records on Criminal Forums

Researchers at SpyCloud warn that the number of stolen identity records on criminal forums rose to 65.7 billion in 2025, a 23% increase from the previous year.

December 19, 2025 KnowBe4 Team

81% of Small Businesses Sustained a Cyber Incident Over the Past Year

Eighty-one percent of small businesses suffered a security or data breach over the past year, and 38% of these businesses were forced to raise their prices as a result, a report from the ...

May 17, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Verizon: The Human Element is Behind Two-Thirds of Data Breaches

Despite growing security investments in prevention, detection and response to threats, users are still making uninformed mistakes and causing breaches.

May 15, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing and Pretexting Dominate Social Engineering-Related Data Breaches

New data shows that despite the massive evolution of the cybercrime economy, threat actors are sticking with the basics in social engineering attacks, with a goal at stealing data.

January 23, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Myth of Massive Data Breach Busted: Big Headlines Mask a Minor Threat

Ok, I'll admit it, I was swept up in the moment last week and wrote a short blog post that more or less summarized the tsunami of news about that huge data breach initially reported by ...

November 15, 2023 Jacqueline Jayne

New ASD Cyber Threats Report Shows A Cybercrime Incident Is Reported in Australia Every Six Minutes

The annual Cyber Threat Report by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) was released this week, containing insights that every Australian business and citizen should read. The ASD ...

September 12, 2023 Stu Sjouwerman

AP Stylebook Data Breach Compromises Customer Personal Information

The Associated Press (AP) has disclosed a data breach affecting the legacy AP Stylebook website that led to phishing attacks against impacted customers, BleepingComputer reports.

August 23, 2023 Stu Sjouwerman

Data Breaches Involving Social Engineering Attacks Take Longer to Identify and Contain

Continuing coverage of IBM’s recently-released Cost of a Data Breach report, we focus on the impact attacks involving social engineering have on data breach costs.

August 23, 2023 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Tops the List as the Most Costly Initial Attack Vector in Data Breaches

After you come to grips with the massive average cost of a data breach to an enterprise organization measured in the millions, it’s time to look at the factors that increase – and lower – ...

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