Gartner Recognizes KnowBe4 as a Representative Vendor for Security Awareness Training Program Platforms

We believe, as the world's largest security awareness training platform, this recognition validates the success of our ability to carry out our mission. We enable organizations and their ...

October 5, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Healthcare Sector Still Sustains Phishing Campaigns

No one should take too seriously the high-minded things criminals sometimes say about how they’re restraining themselves during the pandemic, and that they’re going to avoid hitting ...

October 3, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Interesting Mini-Movie On Disinformation From The FBI

The FBI and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) released a new movie to increase awareness of how foreign intelligence entities use fake profiles and other forms ...

October 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Two Men Charged in a Case of Phishing NFL and NBA Players

The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...

September 30, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attacks Continue to Grow More Sophisticated

Both criminal and nation-state threat actors have “rapidly increased in sophistication” over the past twelve months, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report. Microsoft found that ...

September 28, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations Working From Home Opens Wider Target for Cybercriminals

With so many people working from home, more attackers are adapting their strategies to focus on employees as a way to bypass organizations’ defenses, FCW reports. During a webcast hosted ...

September 24, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Tribune Publishing apologizes for fake bonus offer in phishing-simulation email

Yesterday at the end of the day, I was called by our PR team who got alerted by tech support about a Twitter post that was going viral. Turns out a custom phishing test created by one of ...

September 16, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

How to Become a Harder Target From Malicious Threat Actors

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an advisory regarding threat actors associated with China’s Ministry of State ...

September 15, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

High-Profile Caper Spawns Phishing Campaign

A phishing campaign is using the recent Twitter hack as phishbait, HackRead reports. In mid-July, hackers used social engineering against Twitter employees to gain access to more than a ...

September 14, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Funds Transfer Fraud Has Increased 35% Since the Onset of COVID-19

With reported losses from thousands of dollars to well over $1 million, funds transfer fraud represents 27% of cyber insurance claims in 2020.

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