The Best and First Defenses You Should Implement

Apr 24, 2020 8:43:14 AM By Roger Grimes

Every good defense has three pillars of controls: policy, technical, and education. People are always asking what they should do for each to minimize cybersecurity events the most and ...

Phishing Kit Prices Rise

Apr 22, 2020 9:59:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The price of phishing kits on the black market rose by 149% in 2019, according to researchers at Group-IB. ZDNet reports that the researchers tracked the pricing of 16,200 phishing kits ...

Apple, Netflix, and Yahoo Were the Most Impersonated Brands in Q1 2020

Apr 21, 2020 8:25:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

10% of all brand-impersonation phishing attacks spoofed Apple in the first quarter of 2020, according to a new report from Check Point. Netflix came in second with 9%, followed by Yahoo ...

Zeus Sphinx Banking Trojan is Revived Under the Guise of COVID-19 Assistance

Apr 20, 2020 8:29:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 5-year old malware variant has reared its ugly head once again after a three-year hiatus – this time attempting to take advantage of the need for COVID-19 financial assistance.

Netflix Scams Target People Sheltering in Place

Apr 20, 2020 8:23:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With people sheltering in place during the pandemic emergency, they’re both teleworking and finding their entertainment online. Google searches for Netflix jumped 142% since the advice to ...

It’s Look-Alike Day: While Doppelganger Humans Can Be Funny, Domains Are Not

Apr 20, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

On April 20, we celebrate National Look-Alike Day. It’s the perfect time to see which people have similar features as you, instead of that completely normal person you bumped into at the ...

Damage From Phishing Doubles For Dutch Banks

Apr 20, 2020 6:26:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dutch banks saw damage from phishing double last year compared to the previous year. This concerns both phishing for 2FA security codes and phishing for credit and debit card numbers, ...

Re-Opening the American Economy? Malicious Actors Have a Plan...

Apr 17, 2020 8:29:11 AM By Eric Howes

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. If you've been following the news over the past week or so then you know that a robust debate has opened at federal, state, and local ...

[NEW PhishER Feature] Remove, Inoculate, and Protect Against Email Threats Faster with PhishRIP

Apr 16, 2020 8:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are excited to announce the availability of PhishRIP™ as part of the PhishER platform to all PhishER customers. PhishRIP is a new email quarantine feature that integrates with ...

Phishing Trend: Quality, Not Quantity?

Apr 16, 2020 8:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new report from CyberCube found that sophisticated cybercriminals are increasingly shifting to launching business email compromise (BEC) attacks against executives, Insurance Business ...

Spanish Hospital Faces Netwalker Ransomware Attack in the Midst of Pandemic

Apr 15, 2020 10:36:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

At a time when hospitals are already stretched thin for budget, one of many attackers still thinks it’s a good idea to hold hospitals for ransom, showing organizations always need to be ...

Coronavirus-Related Spear Phishing Attacks See a Massive 667% Increases in March

Apr 15, 2020 10:32:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Attackers are taking advantage of the pandemic, looking for every way possible to achieve their malicious goals via targeted phishing campaigns of every kind.

When the Implausible Seems, Well, More Plausible

Apr 15, 2020 8:34:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Everyone is vulnerable to social engineering and no security tool can block every phishing email, according to Kevin Casey at The Enterprisers Project. Casey talked to a number of ...

Phishing Better Than the Bad Guys During the Pandemic

Apr 14, 2020 4:19:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Katie Brennan, KnowBe4 Product Content Director. The COVID-19 pandemic has had cyber criminals in a phishing frenzy for months. They’ve been sending countless attacks, with the ...

3 Eye Opening Reasons Why Security Awareness Training is Even More Critical Now That You Have a Remote Workforce

Apr 13, 2020 8:36:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the history of IT and cyberthreats, there has never been a more critical time for organizations to employ security awareness training than now. With employees working from home, the ...

Q1 2020 Coronavirus-Related Phishing Email Attacks Are Up 600%

Apr 9, 2020 11:12:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 reports on the top-clicked phishing emails by subject lines each quarter in three different categories: subjects related to social media, general subjects, and 'In the Wild' - we ...

The Bad Guys Use A New Text Reversal Technique To Get Phishing Attacks Past Your Security Filters

Apr 9, 2020 10:10:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dark Reading reports that researchers at Inky have observed attackers using a text reversal technique to get their phishing emails past security filters. Many email security filters ...

Hackers have hit every country on Earth with coronavirus-themed cyberattacks

Apr 9, 2020 6:51:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber criminals have launched coronavirus-themed cyberattacks in 241 countries and territories, new research from Redmond showed. "Every country in the world has seen at least one ...

Struggling with the Whole WFH Thing? Fear Not! The Bad Guys are Here to Help!

Apr 8, 2020 3:57:16 PM By Eric Howes

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal Lab Researcher. Over the past month we have provided readers with regular updates on the growth and development of Coronavirus-themed phishing emails ...

NASA sees an “exponential” jump in malware attacks as personnel work from home

Apr 8, 2020 8:53:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ars Technica reports that NASA has experienced an exponential increase in malware attacks and a doubling of agency devices trying to access malicious sites in the past few days as ...

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