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Social Engineering

Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.

Use KnowBe4’s New Callback Phishing Feature to Boost Your Organization's Security Awareness

What's the Deal with Callback Phishing?

Data Breaches Involving Social Engineering Attacks Take Longer to Identify and Contain

Continuing coverage of IBM’s recently-released Cost of a Data Breach report, we focus on the impact attacks involving social engineering have on data breach costs.

Social Engineering Is the Number One Cybersecurity Problem by Far

The number one way that hackers and malware compromise people, devices, and networks is social engineering. No one argues that anymore, but it was not always known or discussed that way. ...

LinkedIn Deception: How a Chinese Spy Tricked Thousands of UK Officials

In last few years, cyber espionage has taken a new form. A recent investigation by The Times has unveiled a Chinese intelligence officer's extensive use of LinkedIn to target UK ...

[FREE RESOURCE KIT] Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kit 2023 Now Available

Get the resources you need to help keep your users safe from malicious social engineering attacks during this year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month with our free resource kit.

Beware of Clickbait PDF Phishing Attacks Lurking in Search Results

We previously reported independently on PDF-based phishing attacks skyrocketing and the rise of SEO attacks. A recent research study found that the combination of both is quite common. ...

Gootloader Malware Uses Social Engineering to Target Law Firms (or their Clients)

Law firms are being targeted by a large number of social engineering attacks involving the Gootloader malware delivery tool, according to researchers at Trustwave.

[GUIDE] Scary SEO and Waterhole Attacks: What You Need to Know Now

Most social engineering scams search out their potential victims, often sending emails to known email addresses, sending chat messages to them or calling known phone numbers. The ...

KnowBe4’s Interactive Phishing Analysis Center: Keep Your Finger On The Pulse

As a security awareness practitioner, keeping your pulse on industry - and geographical - benchmarking data and best practices is always a good way to measure your organization’s security ...

Most Organizations Using Weak Multifactor Authentication

Most organizations are still using weak forms of multi-factor authentication (MFA), a survey by Nok Nok has found. These forms of MFA can be bypassed if an employee falls for a social ...