Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 per cent were attempts to visit a ...
Warwick Ashford, security editor at ComputerWeekly had an interesting observation after reading CyberArk's latest cyber threat report: "Organisations are failing to learn from cyber ...
Zeljika at HelpnetSecurity had a great summary of Wombat's latest State of the Phish report: "Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once ...
IBM has uncovered sophisticated CEO Fraud campaigns—aka Business Email Compromise—which are successfully targeting Fortune 500 companies. On Wednesday, researchers from IBM's X-Force ...
Let's open that doc file and watch the Matrix again. Catalin Cimpanu at Bleepingcomputer had the scoop on this concerning news: "Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code ...
Bradley Barth at SCMedia nailed it when he wrote: "No, NSA whistleblower and U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden did not just purchase a 2 terabyte storage plan for iCloud, nor has he moved back ...
Ray Schultz at MediaPost had a great summary of some troublesome news: "Some of the world’s most popular websites are also the most dangerous when in comes to phishing attacks, according ...
Spam distributors are using a new technique to infect users with malware, and while this phishing attack relies on having users open Word documents, it does not involve social engineering ...
The North Korean Lazarus Hacking Group, suspected to be behind the WannaCry ransomware attack last year, has returned with a new crime spree, this time targeting financial institutions ...
KnowBe4, Inc, the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, this week announced it has successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ...
Researchers see a new trend in phishing. Hackers are inserting themselves into email conversations between parties known to and trusted by one another. Once in, they exploit that trust to ...
Jonathan, at our friends at Barkly wrote: "Hi all, according to researchers at McAfee, a new malware campaign is targeting organizations associated with the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics ...
By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer We certainly live in fun times: Barracuda acquiring PhishLine Microsoft adding limited phishing simulation to Office 365 ...
Well, Microsoft just legitimized the whole new-school security awareness training market. I'm pleased to note that Microsoft has finally acknowledged that organizations need to send ...
Shortly after the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper story about Netherlands Intelligence agencies compromising the prominent Russsian Cozy Bear hacking group and providing the US with ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. For most users the experience of dealing with phishing emails is a solitary experience, whether they recognize that they are under attack ...
Lexology had an excellent post from Ogletree Deakins by Rebecca J. Bennett and Danielle Vanderzanden, related to a crafty new phishing scam they warned for and that you should be aware ...
Heads-up. I am sorry to have to bring up a very distasteful topic, but in the very near future your users will get phishing emails with something close to the ultimate click-bait, luring ...
Our friends at Social-Engineer wrote a great post that we are cross-posting here, because we see the same problem happening more and more! "With the new year come new social engineering ...
This Netflix phishing campaign goes after your login, credit card, mugshot and ID! Paul Ducklin at Sophos wrote: "Think of the big security stories of recent months. Security holes like ...
