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Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.

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January 26, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Confident About Detecting Spoofed, Scam Emails?

A survey by ESET found that most people think they’d be able to identify scam emails while shopping online. 87% of respondents said they felt secure while shopping online, while 73% ...

January 22, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Thousands of Stolen Credentials Accessible via Google Search as Cybercriminals Accidentally Make Them Public

A publishing goof by cybercriminals on a WordPress site made files containing stolen passwords indexable by Google and were subsequently publicly available via search.

January 22, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Microsoft Continues to Dominate as the Leading Brand Impersonated in Phishing Attacks

New data from Check Point Research highlights the latest details on which brands are impersonated, giving insight into where the bad guys are most successful.

January 22, 2021 Roger Grimes

Motivations of Phishing Criminals

Phishers, people who are phishing other people (i.e., victims), have reasons for doing so. They are all criminals…cons…each pretending to be something they are not in order to trick ...

January 22, 2021 Roger Grimes

The Many Ways You Can Be Phished

Social engineering and deception are as old as humanity itself. Phishing is social engineering and deception via digital means and has been with us since the beginning of computers. After ...

January 21, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

[INFOGRAPHIC] Q4 2020 Work From Home Phishing Emails on the Rise

KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. These are broken down into three different categories: social media related subjects, general subjects, ...

January 19, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Charming Kitten Phishing and Smishing Attacks Use Legitimate Google Links and a Tricky Redirection Strategy to Fool Security Solutions

This breakdown of the latest attack from the Charming Kitten cybercriminal gang shows just how much thought goes into obfuscating their tactics and evading detection.

January 18, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Familiar Advice, but Worth Repeating

Researchers at ESET outline some security best practices to avoid falling for phishing emails. In an article for TechZone360, the researchers explain how to identify suspicious links.

January 14, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

68% of Organizations Experiencing One Cyberattack Experience a Second Within 12 Months!

New data from cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shows just having security technologies in place won’t prevent one… let alone two… cyberattacks.

January 14, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Google Finds an Alarming Thousands of Phishing Sites Everyday in 2020

Google discovered a record number of phishing sites in 2020, according to researchers at AtlasVPN. The researchers cite Google’s Transparency Report, which says the search giant detected ...

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