Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
What is the right password policy? Conventional password policies say you must have a password at least 8-12 characters long…16 characters or longer if it belongs to an elevated ...
I get asked a lot about password policy during my travels around the globe giving presentations and from people who email after webinars. Many of the questions are the same and I’ve ...
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government-backed hackers are attacking healthcare and research institutions in an effort to steal valuable information about efforts to contain the new ...
Researchers at Group-IB have discovered a sophisticated spear phishing campaign that’s targeted executives at more than 150 companies around the world since mid-2019. The researchers have ...
Using simple alert-style email notices, scammers look to steal credentials to gain access to development code, intellectual property, and project details.
New data shows successful attacks on internal networks, cloud environments, and POS systems all are very susceptible to this common attack vector.
It’s no surprise that phishers and scammers are using the avalanche of new information and events involving the global coronavirus pandemic as a way to successfully phish more victims. ...
KrebsOnSecurity reports that scammers are using caller ID spoofing to impersonate their victims, and then socially engineering victims’ banks into divulging information about recent ...
That means you can from now on count a ransomware infection as a data breach with all the consequences that this brings. Moreover, the so-called "human-operated" ransomware gangs have ...
I had some numbers run on the usage of our new, dedicated COVID-19 phishing templates to find out what the Phish-prone percentage was, since this is an unprecedented worldwide event. ...
By Jim Shields, Managing Director of U.K.-based Twist & Shout - a KnowBe4 company. When we first created Restricted Intelligence over seven years ago, we had no idea it would be so ...
According to new data from security researchers at Forcepoint, the interest in coronavirus-themed emails and websites by cybercriminals is cause for concern.
Forget cybercriminals out to steal your money and credentials. Security researchers are now finding more malware intent on rewriting master boot records and wiping file systems.
With people sheltering in place during the pandemic emergency, they’re both teleworking and finding their entertainment online. Google searches for Netflix jumped 142% since the advice to ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new report from CyberCube found that sophisticated cybercriminals are increasingly shifting to launching business email compromise (BEC) attacks against executives, Insurance Business ...
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 ...
