KnowBe4's Q3 2021 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Report Includes New Global Data [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. We are now looking at the top categories globally, general subjects (in the United States and Europe, ...

October 12, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Man Spends Thousands and is Exposed for Typosquatting with Cryptocurrency

A man in Brazil spent more than $200,000 on typosquatting domains between November 2020 and February 2021, the Washington Post reports. Typosquatting is a phishing technique in which ...

October 4, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

New James Bond Movie is Cybercriminals Shiniest Phishbait

Cybercriminals are using the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, as phishbait, the National reports. Researchers at Kaspersky warn that malicious ads and phishing sites are claiming, ...

October 1, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attacks Maintain “New Normal” Elevated Levels into the Middle of 2021

New data from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (AWPG) shows the Q2 of 2021 showed similar phishing activity to that of Q1, indicating no slowdown in attacks.

September 22, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

[HEADS UP] Millions of malicious emails will slip past security filters in Q4

Researchers at Tessian have published a report looking at recent trends in spear phishing attacks. The researchers found that 45% of employees said that they clicked on a phishing email ...

September 14, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Social Media as Artillery Preparation for Spear Phishing

Researchers at ESTsecurity warn that a North Korean threat actor known as “Kumsong 121” is using compromised social media accounts to launch spear phishing attacks, the Daily NK reports. ...

August 11, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Spear Phishing Becomes a Bigger Problem as the Average Organization is Targeted 700 Times a Year

With threat actors honing their trickery skills to craft the perfect email used to fool a would-be victim recipient, new data shows cybercriminals are stepping up their game on a number ...

July 19, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

[INFOGRAPHIC] New Report Shows Users Are Falling for Security and HR-Related Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. These are broken down into three different categories: social media related subjects, general subjects, ...

July 19, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

New LuminousMoth APT Takes a Double-Infection Vector Approach to Attacks

Spotted by security researchers at Kaspersky Labs, this large-scale yet extremely targeted campaign of attacks focuses on government organizations within Southeast Asia.

July 14, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Year-Long Phishing Campaign Targets Energy, Oil & Gas Companies Using Spoofed B2B Correspondence

Uncovered by the research team at cloud protection vendor Intezer, this new phishing campaign seeks to steal information and position each victim as the foothold to spear phish additional ...

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