Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
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 ...
Click on the Picture to download the full infographic in PDF format Looking at the whole of 2017, there were some interesting shifts on what phishing emails were clicked from quarter to ...
This week, cybersecurity firm Check Point published its regular Global Threat Index. Malware that hijacks workstations to mine cryptocoins has apparently become the most popular infection ...
Trend Micro reported that Business Email Compromise (BEC) is projected to skyrocket as attackers use more and more sophisticated social engineering tactics to trick their targets. The ...
Tara Seals at InfoSecurity Magazine had a good summary of Wombat Security Technologies' annual State of the Phish research report. "The war against phishing is still on, with 76% of ...
Note: I got this too and had a similar reaction last week. Security researchers say the legitimate email is training people to have bad email hygiene. Richard De Vere, a security ...
In the first quarter of 2018, after 7 years of helping our customers to enable their employees to make smarter security decisions and having reached the milestone of 15,000 customers, we ...
The most persistent security challenge you face today is bad guys social engineering your users. Phishing campaigns continue to be hacker’s No.1 preferred attack vector to get your ...
Microsoft's patch to protect Windows computers from the Meltdown / Spectre "hardware bug" revealed the rootkit-like nature of many antivirus tools. Some AV products are incompatible with ...
Phishing will remain the primary email attack vector through 2020. A new report from Comodo Security Threat Lab's VP, Fatih Orhan, brings up an interesting statistic from Friedrich ...
Nearly half of federal agency email domains have adopted policies to collect data on unauthorized emails, a move mandated by the Department of Homeland Security in October, according to a ...
A research team from Google collaborated with the cybersecurity experts from the University of California, Berkeley to scrutinize the activities of these online miscreants. After about 1 ...
Wouldn't it be great if your users had a way to "roll back time" when they forgot to think before they click on a bad link? Now they can! We are excited to announce Second Chance, a ...
A new survey by Webroot shows that 86% of security professionals worry that AI and ML (machine learning) technology could be used against them. And they are right, because it will and ...
W-2 phishing season is just a few weeks away. For the past several tax seasons, cyber criminals have used sophisticated social engineering tactics to dupe hundreds of payroll and HR ...
Researchers at Secureworks report Trojan malware is being distributed in phishing emails using the lure of a fake job ad. A prolific cyber criminal gang with links to North Korea is ...
