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 ...
The bad guys are going to have a ball with this one. President Trump announced that he and first lady Melania are COVID Positive. This event will be used in a variety of ways through ...
There are many specific, heightened challenges of spear phishing emails coming from compromised, trusted third parties. Trusted third-party phishing emails usually come from the ...
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 ...
Involved in 60% of cybersecurity insurance claims, Business Email Compromise (BEC) is growing in interest by cybercriminals as the initial malicious action as part of a larger attack.
With phishing and spear phishing so prevalent as the primary initial attack vector for malware, ransomware, and data breach attacks, why aren’t users getting wise.
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. For several years both Google and Yahoo have been warning users about potential attacks on their accounts by "state actors." Indeed, ...
Apparently focused on more intelligence gathering than taking direct malicious action against the organizations they compromise, this attack is filled with ingenuity.
One of the most frequent concerns I hear from IT security practitioners and CISOs is the rise of phishing attacks coming from compromised trusted partners and contractors. The attackers ...
What better way to gain complete control over a crypto organization’s network that to target their sysadmin with a Job Posting and then spear phish them?
