Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
One of the skills everyone needs to prevent social engineering attacks is to recognize disinformation. False information that is intended to mislead people has become an epidemic on the ...
A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It ...
While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...
A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...
The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned that scammers are impersonating a London law firm, Linklaters LLP, using phony job offers. The documents purport to come from the ...
The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught fire and was barely saved from total destruction. Millions of people visit every year and hundreds of millions feel a powerful, and personal, ...
We’ve recently shared a link to a podcast, “The Ghost and the Mole,” which revisits the infamous case of FBI Special Agent turned Russian spy Robert Hanssen. Before dismissing this as ...
Highly targeted phishing attacks, known as Business Email Compromise or CEO fraud scams have exceeded $12.5 billion in total known losses worldwide (according to the FBI). These social ...
In this shocking demonstration Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, shows how hackers can steal a user’s password hash without the user having to click a hyperlink or open an ...
Each week the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast looks behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that make headlines and take a heavy toll on ...
Targeted attacks are increasing, with cybercriminals focused on stealing information that can be used to impersonate a user and perpetuate their scams.
KnowBe4 was at RSA 2019 this year with two booths, in both the North and South Hall. The show was humongous as usual and a torrent of news was released. I was there and it was a challenge ...
Impersonation attacks and business email compromise (aka CEO fraud) can lead to far more dangerous consequences than monetary losses, according to Matt Devost from OODA LLC. Devost ...
In a webinar last week Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, shared a shocking demonstration of a recent Outlook Exchange exploit in which delegated access is allowed from any ...
The latest data from Proofpoint shows many types of cyberattacks making massive jumps in comparison to both previous quarters and years.
Many of the world's most reputable organizations rely on Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, to uncover their most dangerous security flaws. ...
Attackers are selectively editing Wikipedia articles to lend credibility to tech support scams, according to Rob VandenBrink at the SANS Internet Storm Center. The Wikipedia page for the ...
Sextortion scam emails are circulating which claim that a popular adult site has been hacked, allowing an attacker to record videos of users through their webcams, according to Lawrence ...
A friend was sent this email and he forwarded it to me. It's a brilliant new social engineering phishing scam. It will sail through all your spam / malware filters and email protection ...
