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, ...

[Heads-Up] Hacking Attacks Double Against Users Who Now Suddenly Work From Home

Apr 17, 2020 8:52:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Reuters just reported that hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novel, but Retrospectively Obvious: a QR Code Generator Scam

Apr 13, 2020 8:28:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A scammer has stolen more than $45,000 worth of bitcoin over the past month by tricking people with fake QR code generators, ZDNet reports. Harry Denley, Director of Security at MyCrypto, ...

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 ...

Share the Red Flags of Social Engineering Infographic With Your Employees

Apr 8, 2020 8:43:49 AM By Roger Grimes

Social engineering and phishing are responsible for 70% to 90% of all malicious breaches , so it’s very important to keep your employees at a heightened state of alert against this type ...

Phishing Trends Recap of COVID-19 Related Phishing Schemes

Apr 7, 2020 9:39:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our Chief Evangelist Strategy Officer Perry Carpenter took a bit of time and summarized the crazy month of March 2020 looking at the exponential growth of COVID-19 themed phishing attacks.

Bad News from the (Fake) CDC: You've Got Malware

Apr 3, 2020 9:42:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Malicious actors continue to probe organizations' security and defenses with malicious emails explicitly crafted to create and exploit sense of panic in the wake of the COVID-19. Over the ...

Malicious Actors Release Coronavirus Guidelines for America

Apr 3, 2020 9:40:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You already knew this was going to happen. It was just a matter of waiting. Fast on the heels of the release of President Trump's "Coronavirus Guidelines for America," malicious actors ...

A new ransomware strain called 'Save the Queen’, distributes itself from your own Domain Controllers

Apr 2, 2020 1:47:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sophisticated cybercriminals have continuously improved the effectiveness of ransomware attacks, according to Yaki Faitelson, co-founder and CEO of Varonis. In an article for Forbes, ...

New Potential Phishing Scam Begins with A Phone Call

Mar 31, 2020 4:10:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent suspicious phone call was brought to our attention. It looks to be the beginning of a phishing campaign and demonstrates the lengths cybercriminals will go to in order to ensure ...

70% to 90% of All Malicious Breaches are Due to Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks

Mar 31, 2020 8:50:03 AM By Roger Grimes

If you’ve heard me speak the last two years, read any of my articles, or watched any of my webinars, you’ve probably heard me say, “Seventy to ninety percent of all malicious breaches are ...

The Dilemma: Should you phish test during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Mar 31, 2020 8:45:13 AM By Perry Carpenter

By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. There’s no question, these are challenging times. Employees and organizations around the world are doing their best to ...

Trends in Phishing, as Seen From a Mountain View

Mar 31, 2020 8:31:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) released details on recent state-sponsored phishing campaigns from around the world. The researchers said that Google’s phishing ...

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