[Discovered] An evil new AI disinformation attack called 'PoisonGPT'

Jul 13, 2023 4:39:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

PoisonGPT works completely normally, until you ask it who the first person to walk on the moon was.

[Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing

Jul 10, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.

Amazon Prime Day Alert: Beware of Fake Logins, Gift Card Scams

Jul 7, 2023 11:39:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new threat alert from ConsumerAffairs and TrendMicro proves more than just shoppers will take advantage of Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day.

Free Unsolicited Smartwatch in the Mail and I’m in the Military? What Could Possibly Go Wrong???

Jul 7, 2023 11:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

From the “shaking our heads” files comes the story of how threat actors compromised military personnel mobile devices, credentials, accounts and more.

Camaro Dragon APT Group Continues to Employ USB Devices as Initial Attack Vector

Jul 7, 2023 10:50:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Apparently expanding efforts outside of Southeast Asian countries, this threat group’s known malware has shown up in a European healthcare facility, raising concerns for USB-based attacks.

Email-Based Cyber Attacks in Europe Increase 7-Fold in Just One Year

Jul 7, 2023 10:50:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An abnormally massive focus on business email compromise attacks in Europe has fueled an equally large growth in overall email attacks there, with the U.S. also seeing significant attack ...

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Summer 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

Jul 5, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Summer 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the PhishER platform for ...

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Summer 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Awareness Training

Jul 5, 2023 7:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares Security Awareness Training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from June 2023

Jun 30, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check out the 34 new pieces of training content added in June, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

Unleashing the Power of Incident Reporting: Strengthening Security and Compliance

Jun 27, 2023 8:00:00 AM By John Just

Whether it is reporting a phishing email or something that might be illegal that a coworker is doing, your employees should be a strong last line of defense for security and compliance.

Half of Business Leaders Believe Users Aren’t Security Aware, Despite Most Having a Program in Place

Jun 23, 2023 11:35:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data shows that even with the majority of organizations experiencing cyber attacks, three hours of security awareness training simply isn’t enough.

Why Companies Have Great Success Training Employees With Simulated Phishing Tests

Jun 8, 2023 1:25:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We occasionally learn of articles and papers that claim that security awareness training and/or simulated phishing campaigns are not effective. We don’t want to disparage what these ...

Be a Certified Security Awareness and Culture Professional (SACP)™

Jun 5, 2023 10:00:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

All, I thought it was necessary to have an independent, vendor-neutral Cert so we would have a real Certified Security Awareness and Culture Professional (SACP)™. I funded the effort ...

Warning: Sharing Data with ChatGPT Can Be Misused Outside Your Organization

Jun 2, 2023 3:14:45 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new study found that ChatGPT can accurately recall any sensitive information fed to it as part of a query at a later date without controls in place to protect who can retrieve it.

AI Voice-Based Scams Rise as One-Third of Victims Can’t Tell if the Voice is Real or Not

May 31, 2023 8:11:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As audio deepfake technology continues to go mainstream as part of the evolution in AI-based tools, new data shows there are plenty of victims and they aren’t prepared for such an attack.

Tips from Customer Panel on Combining Security Awareness and Compliance Culture Training

May 30, 2023 11:43:50 AM By John Just

At KB4-CON 2023, we had a customer panel that I hosted discussing the connection between security and compliance training content when trying to change organizational security culture.

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from May 2023

May 26, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check out the 20 new pieces of training content added in May, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

[Free Tool] Find out who falls victim to QR code phishing attacks with our QR Code Phishing Security Test

May 22, 2023 11:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to QRTIGER, an online QR code generator company, dynamic QR code scans increased 433% globally from 2021 to 2022. In 2022, the FBI released a warning that QR codes may be ...

Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive?

May 22, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Jacqueline Jayne

Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the ...

The Face Off: AI Deepfakes and the Threat to the 2024 Election

May 15, 2023 6:22:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Associated Press warned this week that AI experts have raised concerns about the potential impact of deepfake technology on the upcoming 2024 election. Deepfakes are highly convincing ...

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