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Read the latest news about security awareness training, best practices, why you need it, and what happens when you don't have it in place.

Report: 9 out of 10 Americans Have Been Targeted by Scams

91% of Americans have been targeted by a scam, and 17% have fallen victim to one, according to a new survey by Consumer Reports. Notably, 20% of respondents said the latest scam they ...

Extortion Groups are Impersonating Help Desks to Gain Initial Access

Researchers at ReliaQuest have observed a surge in voice phishing (vishing) and Microsoft Teams phishing over the past several months, particularly from extortion groups like ShinyHunters.

Report: Ransomware Attacks Involving Data Theft Are Surging

Ransomware attacks involving data theft have surged by 275% in 2026, according to a new report from Zscaler. Attackers exfiltrated more than 896.2 terabytes of data from victim ...

Two Systems, One Truth: Unifying Training Records Across SAT and LMS

Somewhere in your security and compliance stack, there are records that prove your employees completed their security awareness training. But when these records need to serve as evidence, ...

Warning: Attackers Are Tricking Employees Into Sharing Malicious Calendar Invites

Researchers at Fortra are tracking a new variant of calendar phishing in which threat actors trick employees into sharing meeting links internally. The attackers pose as prospective ...

Remove the Language Barrier from Your Training Program’s Global Rollout

At any given moment, there’s an employee somewhere in the world tuning out of a phishing training module that was translated from another language. Every word is rendered correctly, yet ...

Threat Actors Abuse Trusted Accounts and Internal Tools to Launch Convincing BEC Attacks

Attackers are continually finding new ways to refine business email compromise (BEC) attacks, according to Douglas McKee, Director of Vulnerability Intelligence at Rapid7. When attackers ...

[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] Cyber Espionage: When the Attacker’s Best Asset Is You

Spies have always relied on technology, disguises, secret communications and clever gadgets, at least if the movies are to be believed. But some of the most effective tools in the ...

Quantum Readiness Day: How to Prepare for Post-Quantum Security

Quantum Readiness Day on September 24 is a useful reminder that the security work we do today is not only about preventing breaches tomorrow. It is about protecting data and digital trust ...