Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
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 ...
"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, ...
Now here is a real IT Horror Story. A brand new KnowBe4 customer which had not yet trained their employees decided to test their staff with one of the new templates we had just released.
Guys, we have a real phishing problem with this Adult Friend Finder (AFF) hack. This particular adult site is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites in the U.S. and has 40 million ...
Researchers recently detected a clever email-based attack that combines phishing and social engineering techniques in order to trick users into opening a malicious document. In this ...
You are probably aware of the free one-time Email Exposure Check Pro (EEC Pro) we can run for you. We find all the email addresses of your domain that are out there available on the ...
The Govinfosecurity site just reported on some very interesting scientific research that finds so-called "embedded training" is ineffective. Let's quickly define "embedded", they chose ...
Please read this article and then forward it to the head of your legal department or the person in your organization who is responsible for compliance. Recently, the Department of Health ...
Antony Savvas at Computerworld UK had a good write-up about this quite interesting news: "Some 91% of cyberattacks begin with a "spear phishing" email, according to research from security ...
The nakedsecurity blog over at Sophos highlighted a new phishing scam that would be good to alert your employees about. The bad guys are pretending to be payroll processing company ADP. ...
A few days ago I wrote about a 60 million Euro cyberheist. I have been digging into this a bit more, as it's the most advanced attack yet. Cybercrime is not revolutionary, it clearly ...
Brian Krebs is on a roll. Here is why pill pushing spam pays off. "Consumer demand for cheap prescription drugs sold through spam-advertised Web sites shows no sign of abating, according ...
More from Brian Krebs's astounding blog post today. "As the chart I compiled above indicates, attackers are switching the lure or spoofed brand quite often, but popular choices include ...
F-Secure the security company based in Finland has recently cautioned that spam mails themed on the Olympics are targeting Internauts while carrying web-links to one malevolent PDF file ...
Since LinkedIn had their IPO, they have been in the news a lot more, even if only to compare them with the recent Facebook IPO Debacle. But the better known you are, the bigger target you ...
TrendLabs discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives attached to email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific ...
GFI is one of the few antivirus vendors that understands the importance of prevention and end-user training. They produced this useful video that in two minutes illustrates the top 5 ...
Christopher Mims over at Technology Review was the first one to report on this. A large Gmail security hole could lead to mass harvesting of accounts, as hackers can automate this social ...
