WeChat Phishing Attacks a Growing Threat Outside China
Lead analysts: Cameron Sweeney, Lucy Gee, Louis Tiley, James Dyer “Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to ...
Lead analysts: Cameron Sweeney, Lucy Gee, Louis Tiley, James Dyer “Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to ...
Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Anand Bodke Since November 3, 2025, KnowBe4 Threat Labs has been monitoring a highly sophisticated, multi-stage phishing ...
Lead analysts: Louis Tiley, Lucy Gee and James Dyer Between 1:48pm ET on October 29 and 6:53pm ET on October 30, 2025, KnowBe4 threat analysts observed a high volume of phishing emails ...
Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Anand Bodke KnowBe4 Threat Labs has uncovered an emerging advanced phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users ...
Lead Analysts: Lucy Gee and James Dyer Cybercriminals want their payday. Unfortunately for the targets of phishing (and the organizations they work for) that means they’re constantly ...
Below is an example of a sophisticated survey scam phishing email that KnowBe4’s Threat Lab team has been monitoring as discussed in “The Hidden Cost of "Free" Gifts: How Survey Scams Are ...
You've probably seen them: enticing online offers for free products from brands you trust, like a Yeti beach chair from Costco or an emergency car kit from AAA.
In this series, we first explored the psychology that makes HR phishing so effective, then showcased the real-world lures attackers use to trick your employees. Now, we’re going under the ...
Phishing attacks impersonating HR are on the rise. Between January 1 – March 31, 2025, our Threat Lab team observed a 120%surge in these attacks reported via our PhishER product versus ...
We all trust HR - or at least we do when we think they’re emailing us! Data from the KnowBe4 Platform reveals that phishing simulations with internal subject lines dominate the list of ...