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Cybercriminals frequently use email accounts from legitimate services like Gmail to carry out business email compromise (BEC) attacks, Help Net Security reports. Researchers at Barracuda ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate news headlines as well as the development of malicious email attacks designed to separate ...
Ransomware authors are realizing the benefit of either stealing data or just implying they have and threatening to publish the data publicly in order to increase their chances of being ...
People should learn how to spot the tactics companies (and, more importantly, criminals) use to persuade customers (or marks), especially when those tactics are used deceitfully, ...
Many publicly traded companies in the Dutch AEX, AMX and AScX indices fail to be transparent on cybersecurity efforts in their annual reports. While the Netherlands is a highly digitized ...
UNITED NATIONS -- A 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding ...
An ongoing criminal investigation highlights how classified documents stolen by Russian hackers from former U.K. trade minister Liam Fox may have been used to impact the British 2019 ...
Identifying malicious behavior is a more effective long-term strategy than trying to block individual malicious actors, according to Johnathan Hunt, Vice President of Security at GitLab. ...
Are you attending (the 100% virtual) Black Hat USA 2020? Be sure to stop by the KnowBe4 booth August 5-6th to find out how to secure your last line of defense: USERS.
Researchers at INKY have observed an “explosion” of Zoom-themed phishing attacks over the Spring and Summer of 2020. Most of the attacks are aimed at stealing credentials to services like ...
Pretending to be the U.K. Governments’ Digital Service Team, this latest COVID-related phishing attack seeks to con victims out of their credit card details.
In an interesting twist, cybercriminals utilize a well-known technology to keep security solutions from identifying a “failed payment” email as being fraudulent.
The answer to all three questions would seem to be, "yes." Quiz scams have become widespread over the past year, but they’ve gone largely unremarked, researchers at Akamai have found. ...
Here are a few important fresh content and feature updates to share with you for the month of July.
The FBI said: The United States Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or ...
KnowBe4 helps organizations to educate and train their employees against social engineering attacks, and carry out other required compliance training. KnowBe4 offers over 1,000 different ...
The verge reported: "Twitter provided an update about the unprecedented July 15th attack that allowed hackers to tweet from some of the most high-profile accounts on the service, in a ...
I just finished reading PwC’s latest Workforce Pulse Study – and you should be scared. This study of more than 1,100 American workers provides an in-depth look at the ...
North Korean hackers have been following that bit of social engineering wisdom to a T. According to researching from McAfee, a months long phishing campaign against aerospace and defense ...
According to a recent report from BBC News, the bad guys are using the coronavirus pandemic to use social engineering to trick people out of their cash.
