KnowBe4 2017 Top Clicked Phishing Test Analysis

Click on the Picture to download the full infographic in PDF format Looking at the whole of 2017, there were some interesting shifts on what phishing emails were clicked from quarter to ...

January 19, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Forget Viruses or Ransomware—Is Your Biggest Cyberthreat Greedy Cryptocurrency Miners?

This week, cybersecurity firm Check Point published its regular Global Threat Index. Malware that hijacks workstations to mine cryptocoins has apparently become the most popular infection ...

January 19, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Business Email Compromise Phishing Attacks Will Exceed $9 Billion This Year

Trend Micro reported that Business Email Compromise (BEC) is projected to skyrocket as attackers use more and more sophisticated social engineering tactics to trick their targets. The ...

January 18, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Three-Quarters of Businesses Saw Phishing Attacks in 2017

Tara Seals at InfoSecurity Magazine had a good summary of Wombat Security Technologies' annual State of the Phish research report. "The war against phishing is still on, with 76% of ...

January 17, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Google’s Confusing Gmail Security Alert Looks Exactly Like a Phishing Attempt

Note: I got this too and had a similar reaction last week. Security researchers say the legitimate email is training people to have bad email hygiene. Richard De Vere, a security ...

January 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

[On-Demand Webinar] Phishing Attack Landscape and Benchmarking

The most persistent security challenge you face today is bad guys social engineering your users. Phishing campaigns continue to be hacker’s No.1 preferred attack vector to get your ...

January 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

SNAFU Some AV Tools Cause BSODs And Boot Failures After Meltdown Patches

Microsoft's patch to protect Windows computers from the Meltdown / Spectre "hardware bug" revealed the rootkit-like nature of many antivirus tools. Some AV products are incompatible with ...

January 4, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

One surprising statistic explains why phishing will remain the most common cyberattack for the next few years

Phishing will remain the primary email attack vector through 2020. A new report from Comodo Security Threat Lab's VP, Fatih Orhan, brings up an interesting statistic from Friedrich ...

January 3, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Report: Most Government Agencies Vulnerable To Phishing

Nearly half of federal agency email domains have adopted policies to collect data on unauthorized emails, a move mandated by the Department of Homeland Security in October, according to a ...

December 25, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Nearly 250,000 user logins are being hacked every week and become phishing targets

A research team from Google collaborated with the cybersecurity experts from the University of California, Berkeley to scrutinize the activities of these online miscreants. After about 1 ...

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