It's May 25th, 2018: GDPR DAY! Here Are Phishing Templates You Can Use...

Because it is "GDPR day" our templates team has been hard at work developing GDPR/Privacy policy templates. We have 6 new templates available in the system, located in Current Events. We ...

May 24, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Which Users Will Cause The Most Damage To Your Network And Are An Active Liability?

The statistic that four percent of employees will click on almost anything, with “Free Coffee” and “Package Delivery” taking some of the top spots among phishbait subject lines, may not ...

May 24, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

A Banking Trojan Goes Phishing

Roaming Mantis has drawn notoriety as a banking Trojan. Its criminal controllers, however, have recently given it some new functionality: phishing and cryptomining. The criminals have ...

May 19, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: GDPR Phishing Attack With Apple Flavor / Royal Wedding

Social engineering follows seasonal patterns. It's also connected to major events. We see this every year with holiday-themed phishing attacks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

May 16, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing and pretexting represent 93% of social attack-based breaches

A good article in Forbes that takes another dive into the new 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

May 12, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] New Attack Blindsides Microsoft Office 365 Anti-Phishing Filter And Blacklists

Phishers have found a way of moving the malicious URLs in their emails past Office 365's protections. The security company Avanan says they've observed criminals using a tag in the HTML ...

May 12, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Police Dept Loses 10 Months of Work to Ransomware. Gets Infected a Second Time!

Bleepingcomputer reported: "Ransomware has infected the servers of the Riverside Fire and Police department for the second time in a month. The first ransomware infection took place on ...

May 11, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Does Gmail's New 'Confidential Mode' Make Phishing Easier?

Gmail's new confidential mode lets its users create "expiration dates" for emails, or require recipients to provide an SMS passcode. (And Google also claims they've removed the option to ...

May 11, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

HMRC warns of new wave of UK phishing scams

Rosie Murray West at the Financial Times reported: "Taxpayers are being targeted by a new wave of phishing scams linked to the financial calendar, HM Revenue & Customs has warned. ...

November 4, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. Yes, it's really malicious.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago threat researchers at Proofpoint made a startling discovery : the bad guys had figured out a way to turn Paypal itself ...

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