Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
It turns out that HR giant ADP, which provides payroll, tax and benefits administration for more than 640,000 companies, was vulnerable to an ID theft scam. The criminal hackers made off ...
Infragard warned that the FBI has identified two Android malware families, SlemBunk and Marcher, actively phishing for specified US financial institutions’ customer credentials. The ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal Lab Researcher Over the past six to nine months .DOC and .JS file attachments have dominated the news surrounding the rise in phishing attacks. The ...
Verizon yearly does a comprehensive report on security and data breaches. It is excellent ammo to get budget approval for new-school security awareness training. Why? Hundreds of security ...
If you've been in the IT trenches over the past year, you've probably noticed the announcements of new strains of ransomware are accelerating. The research team at Proofpoint just ...
Yesterday, April 25 2016, we encountered a new phishing email being delivered through Zendesk. The credentials phish itself is a straightforward social engineering attack. The email body ...
It's the old story. A disaster strikes and 24 hours later you get emails with urgent request for help as hundreds of wounded victims need food, water and shelter. And the bad guys are at ...
OK, here is great ammo to get more IT security budget. Why? This article and infographic make it real to the C-suite that they themselves have a big phishing target on their back. You all ...
Pinellas County resident Scott Germak thought he was getting free Tampa Bay Rays tickets based on a phishing email that appeared to be a legitimate message coming from GTE Financial, his ...
It's tax season and the bad guys are in full swing. They try to get your Accounting or HR team to send over the W-2s of all employees, but they also target employees in the office and/or ...
We have added a dozen new phishing templates in the past few days. All are based on actual bad guy phishing emails seen in the last 2 weeks. At least one is less than 24 hours old. Most ...
OK, heads up! This tax season there is a widespread new scam that specifically targets your HR and Accounting professionals. They get an urgent email from "the CEO" who asks them for all ...
As you may have heard, KnowBe4 has released a no-charge Outlook Add-in that allows employees to report phishing attacks to their Incident Response team with just one click. It's called ...
"I feel like a complete idiot. I just got taken by a LinkedIn spam that may have just stolen my banking password." These words dropped in my inbox, written a while ago by Dan Tynan, ...
OK, bad news first. The world is shocked and angry about the attacks in Paris. That often causes emotional reactions, which the bad guys on the Internet are exploiting. ISIS has released ...
Over the last few years, thousands of organizations in the U.S have started to phish their own users. IT pros have realized that doing this is urgently needed as an additional security ...
A front page article in the Wall Street Journal describes the escalating arms race for a possible cyberwar. This article is a great way to get C-level execs a crash course about ...
J. Peter Bruzzese is an InfoWorld columnist and five-time-awarded Microsoft MVP (current technical expertise Office 365, previous four years Exchange). He is a technical speaker, author ...
Aaron Boyd wrote: "Determined not to fall victim to another network breach, the U.S. Postal Service is phishing its own employees, testing their ability to recognize a scam before it's ...
In the never ending battle of the sexes, it looks as though women are winning the phishing fight according to new research from KnowBe4. In an analysis done by KnowBe4 of 201,755 phishing ...
