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. Phishing attacks have long been associated with malicious emails that spoof well-known institutions in order to trick users into coughing ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
by Eric Howes (Principal Lab Researcher) & Ryann Falke (Sales Development Representative) Last week we documented several interesting credentials phishes delivered through LinkedIn ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
We are seeing a big phishing wave with a social engineering attack that threatens with a personalized lawsuit using the domain name of the targeted victim. This is an interesting payload ...
The following question was posted in the SANS Securing The Human forum. I thought it was a very good point and asked our VP Product Greg Kras for his perspective. First the question:
A customer sent us this: Hi, I wanted to share with you a funny story…. My boss calls me into her office, very serious like. She sits me down and asks “Did you use the company credit card ...
