Gartner Recognizes KnowBe4 as a Representative Vendor for Security Awareness Training Program Platforms

We believe, as the world's largest security awareness training platform, this recognition validates the success of our ability to carry out our mission. We enable organizations and their ...

October 7, 2020 Eric Howes

[HEADS UP] Cybercriminals Launch Phishing Campaign to Capitalize on President's Health

As we predicted just a few days ago, malicious actors are now exploiting the media firestorm surrounding President Donald Trump's diagnosis late last week with COVID-19.

October 6, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers are using Black Lives Matter as Phishbait

A phishing campaign is using Black Lives Matter-themed phishing lures to trick people into installing malware, Yahoo reports. Adam Levin from Cyberscout told Yahoo that the phishing ...

October 5, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Healthcare Sector Still Sustains Phishing Campaigns

No one should take too seriously the high-minded things criminals sometimes say about how they’re restraining themselves during the pandemic, and that they’re going to avoid hitting ...

October 2, 2020 Eric Howes

Malicious Actors Crash U.S. Election: Spoofed Emails Attempt to Gather U.S. Voter Registration Data

Unless you recently beamed down from Mars, you are undoubtedly aware that election season is upon us in the United States. Indeed, the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is currently ...

October 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Newly Relaunched ProLock Ransomware Seeks Ransoms as High as $3 Million

Seeing successful attacks as frequently as one per day, the creators of ProLock seek out larger organizations using the QBot trojan to infiltrate, spread throughout, and infect a network.

October 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Two Men Charged in a Case of Phishing NFL and NBA Players

The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...

October 1, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Don't Just Catch a Phish, Captcha One

Researchers at Menlo Security have identified a phishing site that uses three layers of visual captchas to evade detection by automated security crawlers. Captchas are brief tests on ...

September 30, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads Up] This Ingenious Worm Phishing Campaign Is A Game-Changer In Password Theft And Account Takeovers

A few days ago in a Medium blog post, Craig Hays, a cybersecurity architect and bug bounty hunter described a recent phishing new type of attempt which turned out to become "the greatest ...

September 30, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attacks Continue to Grow More Sophisticated

Both criminal and nation-state threat actors have “rapidly increased in sophistication” over the past twelve months, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report. Microsoft found that ...

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