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Phishing

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

61% of Successful Phishing Attacks Against Government Organizations Result in Full Compromise of Credentials

Phishing remains the top primary attack vector that keeps on giving to cybercriminals, as new data highlights the victories cybercriminals are enjoying at your organization’s expense.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Weekly Tip: Current Phishing Threats

Each week during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re going to be sharing in-depth weekly cybersecurity tips from our evangelists to help your users make smarter security decisions and ...

New Office 365 Phishing Attack Checks Your Stolen Credentials in Real-Time

Nothing says the bad guys are intent on stealing credentials like testing them while you participate in their phishing attack so they can verify the validity before letting you off the ...

USPS and FedEx Phishing Attack Texts Flood Mobile Phones

Taking a page from traditional phishing scams that seek to use broadly-accepted messages and send them to everyone, last month officially brought SMiShing to the cybersecurity forefront.

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 ...

[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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.