Scam Of The Week: The 1 Billion Yahoo Hack

Dec 18, 2016 8:15:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is getting old. It's all over the press... again. Here is a Reuters article where I am quoted, which covers the most recent billion-record Yahoo hack. Some people asked me after our ...

KnowBe4 and Barracuda Team Up to Educate and Protect Users Against Phishing Attacks

Dec 17, 2016 9:37:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4, the most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data ...

And Another Billion More Yahoo Accounts Hacked

Dec 14, 2016 9:40:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the September/ October timeframe this year it became clear that Yahoo had lost more than 500 million records which was the biggest hack of the year. Who knew that they would top ...

Phishing from the Middle: Social Engineering Refined

Dec 8, 2016 7:55:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Phishing attacks have long been associated with malicious emails that spoof well-known institutions in order to trick users into coughing ...

Phishing Reply Tracking Is Now Available for All KnowBe4 Customers

Dec 6, 2016 10:48:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Two of the big cybersecurity attacks are the CEO Fraud (aka Business Email Compromise) which has caused $3.4 billion in damages as well as the W-2 Scams which social engineer ...

Kaspersky: DDoS Often Smokescreen For Phishing Attack

Dec 4, 2016 9:13:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Distributed denial of service attacks, also known as DDoS, are becoming a major threat. They can bring websites and networks down, and generally make a lot of noise demanding attention. ...

Phishing Attack Hits Saudi Govt Networks With Disk-Wiping Malware

Dec 3, 2016 11:10:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers penetrated six Saudi Arabian government agencies including its General Authority of Civil Aviation, and bricked thousands of computers with the well-known Shamoon disk-wiper ...

10 Ways To Avoid Holiday Scams

Nov 23, 2016 3:55:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the biggest cybercriminal hacking holidays of the year upon us, it's time for a reminder of red flags to pay attention to when shopping either online or in brick-and-mortar stores.

New Phishing Category: Controversial/NSFWOffensive Language

Nov 18, 2016 1:09:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We get thousands of real phishing emails in, reported to us by customers using the free KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button. On a daily basis, these reported phishing emails get analyzed by the ...

KnowBe4’s Phish Alert Button Now Works With G Suite!

Nov 17, 2016 1:14:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Do your users know what to do when they receive a suspicious email? Should they call the help desk, or forward it? Should they forward to IT including all headers? Delete and not report ...

The LinkedIn Phishing Attack: How They Did It

Nov 11, 2016 5:08:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

by Eric Howes (Principal Lab Researcher) & Ryann Falke (Sales Development Representative) Last week we documented several interesting credentials phishes delivered through LinkedIn ...

City Of El Paso Victim Of 3 Million Dollar Phishing Scam

Nov 5, 2016 3:36:25 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, city officials revealed that cybercriminals pretending to be a vendor scammed the city's Accounts Receivable Department out of about $3 ...

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. And, yes, it's really malicious.

Nov 4, 2016 7:29:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago we blogged about a startling discovery by threat researchers at Proofpoint: the bad guys had figured out a way to turn ...

How Podesta got hacked: HelpDesk said 'Password' phishing email was real

Oct 29, 2016 10:09:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

John Podesta, Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign was a victim of social engineering and rushed advice from his IT helpdesk. It's a comedy of errors. The helpdesk ...

A Slick Phish with a Hidden Surprise

Oct 20, 2016 4:44:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Yesterday one of our customers was hit with a highly targeted phishing attack -- one of the slicker attacks we've seen in a while. Once we ...

Brazen: Phishing Attacks The Bad Guys Send When No One's Looking

Sep 28, 2016 4:21:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

When we talk with folks outside the security industry about what we see from the bad guys on a daily basis, we often get the response, "Wow! That's really sneaky." And it's true. The bad ...

These 500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts Are A Phishing Paradise. Warn Your Users!

Sep 23, 2016 7:55:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's all over the press. Here is a quote from Reuters: "Yahoo Inc said on Thursday information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by ...

Scam Of The Week: Apple Store Phishing Attack Goes For Whole Enchilada

Sep 21, 2016 4:49:55 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks using false Apple Store email messages, fake landing pages and sometimes fake login pages are still a very popular attack vector. They still make it through all the ...

Bad Guy FAIL! or, When a Simple Credentials Phish Goes Horribly Wrong

Sep 21, 2016 1:49:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Anyone who works a job in the computer security industry inevitably develops a kind of dark appreciation for the mad skills so often ...

Reported Phishes of the Week

Sep 20, 2016 3:58:20 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4's Templates Mistress Katie has been busy again adding a new batch of phishing templates to the collection of "System Templates" available to active subscribers.

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