Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Scammers use familiar verification methods to establish credibility and lull the victim into a false sense of security to compromise Instagram accounts.
By Joanna Huisman, KnowBe4's new SVP Strategic Insights & Research. I have a big birthday coming up, and as you can probably guess, I’m less than thrilled about it. I tell myself it’s ...
This year at Black Hat 2019, our CEO Stu was interviewed by Dark Reading on regularly training users. Take a look at what we have in store in this video:
A suspected North Korean threat actor has been sending spear phishing emails targeting US organizations, according to Prevailion researchers Danny Adamitis and Elizabeth Wharton. Adamitis ...
By Joanna Huisman, KnowBe4's new SVP Strategic Insights & Research. The bad guys know that the easiest way into your organization is through your employees. This is not an opinion. Of ...
Just when you think they could not sink any lower, you see something like this. A fake website pretending to be an organization that offers job opportunities for U.S. veterans is ...
Knowing how to identify indicators of social engineering can alert you when someone tries to manipulate you, according to Roger A. Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist. In an ...
There are numerous ways to check the authenticity of someone on a dating site so you don’t fall for a romance scam, according to HackRead. You should always be cautious when interacting ...
The Emotet botnet is up and running again after four months of inactivity, according to Ars Technica. Multiple security firms have reported seeing phishing emails delivering the malware ...
While deepfake video gets most of the attention on social media, it’s deepfake audio that is quickly becoming the cybercriminal’s tools of choice for committing fraud.
HackRead has come across a phishing scam that’s trying to trick Amazon customers into handing over their account credentials, personal information, and financial details. The phishing ...
This new document, entitled Strategic Intent highlights ways to “defend today, secure tomorrow” and comes out as the CISA director admits that ransomware is “only getting worse.”
Attackers stole millions of dollars from Oklahoma’s pension fund for retired law enforcement officers, the Oklahoman reports. The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System (OLERS) said ...
Scammers are always looking for new ways to get potential victims to engage. It appears that the latest trend is to leverage our familiarity with watching video to spawn an attack.
You’d better check your email queue for a new email from The Equifax Breach Settlement Administrator that was sent out several days ago to those who previously filed a claim. It will ...
Zak Doffman, contributor at Forbes reported: "There is a cyberattack epidemic hitting businesses around the world, targeting individuals responsible for requesting fund transfers or ...
Scammers frequently impersonate lawyers in fraudulent emails in order to get recipients to take those emails seriously, according to Victoria Hudgins at Legaltech News. Legal threats or ...
Danny Palmer at ZDNet had the scoop: "Social engineering is by far the biggest factor in malicious hacking campaigns, warn researchers – so how can it be stopped?"
BleepingComputer describes a PayPal phishing site that’s delivering a new strain of Nemty ransomware. The attackers used Unicode characters from different alphabets to make their URL look ...
