[Heads Up] This New, Unusual Ransomware Strain Goes Exclusively After Servers

Danny Palmer at ZDnet alerted on the following: "An unconventional form of ransomware is being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers – and it appears to have links to ...

November 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

TrickBot Malware Uses Highly Personalized Fake Sexual Harassment Complaints as Phishing Bait

Fake sexual harassment complaints appearing to come from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are the latest baits used by attackers to disseminate TrickBot banking ...

November 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

People Need to Work Together to Spot Con Artists

It might not be possible to resist a good con artist, according to award-winning author, journalist, and champion poker player Maria Konnikova. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, ...

November 11, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Resistance for Charities

81% of charities say they’ve been targeted by a phishing attack this year, according to Ed Macnair, writing for UK Fundraising. Meanwhile, only 37% of charities think their IT and ...

November 8, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Specially Crafted ZIP Files Used to Bypass Secure Email Gateways

Attackers are always looking for new tricks to distribute malware without them being detected by antivirus scanners and secure email gateways. This was illustrated in a new phishing ...

November 7, 2019 KnowBe4 Team

The Most Fascinating Layer in a SOC: The Human Layer

During my travels, the topic of security operations comes up often. And nearly every security professional I talk to is either contemplating or already implementing some form of ...

November 5, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

APWG Q3 Report: Phishing Attacks at Highest Level in Three Years

According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the number of phishing attacks continued to rise into the autumn of 2019. The total number of phishing sites detected by APWG ...

November 4, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Healthcare Industry Names KnowBe4 As The 2019 Top Rated Platform For Cybersecurity Training & Education

Black Book Market Research LLC surveyed over 2,876 security professionals from 733 provider organizations to identify gaps, vulnerabilities and deficiencies that persist in keeping ...

November 4, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

American Nikkei Employee Falls For Social Engineering Scam And Loses 29 Million Dollars

Phil Muncaster at InfoSec Mag had the (painful) scoop: "Media giant Nikkei has become the latest firm to suffer a humiliating Business Email Compromise (BEC), after it admitted losing ...

November 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads Up] Scam Of The Week: Phishing Attacks Using Better Benefits And Pay Raise Bait

Millions of employees use KnowBe4's Phish Alert Button to report suspect emails, and thousands of organizations share these reports with us. This has become a fascinating threat source, ...

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