Monthly Archives: May 2023

We are proud to announce that TrustRadius has recognized KnowBe4 with a 2023 Top Rated Award.

A newly identified criminal organization has been observed running a large number of business email compromise (BEC) scams. Since February 2021, Abnormal Security reports the gang has been responsible for some 350 BEC campaigns against a range of companies. No … Read More

The once-in-a-lifetime royal occurrence sparked countless websites designed to steal personal information and credit card details, causing security experts to issue warnings.

New data shows a resurgence in successful ransomware attacks with organizations in specific industries, countries and revenue bands being the target.

The Five Eyes member nations’ cybersecurity and intelligence agencies dismantled the infrastructure of the Snake cyber-espionage malware that was operated by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

Unfortunately ransomware attacks have taken another victim. The City of Dallas recently confirmed that their police department suffered a ransomware attack. This attack shutdown essential services along with some 911 dispatch systems.

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19  |   May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome … Read More

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a distributed file-sharing system that represents an alternative to the more familiar location-based hypermedia server protocols (like HTTPS), is seeing more use in file-storage, web-hosting, and cloud services. As might be expected, more use is … Read More

KnowBe4’s latest reports on top-clicked phishing email subjects have been released for Q1 2023. We analyze ‘in the wild’ attacks reported via our Phish Alert Button, top subjects globally clicked on in phishing tests, top attack vector types, and holiday email phishing subjects.

The evidence is clear – there is nothing most people and organizations can do to vastly lower cybersecurity risk than to mitigate social engineering attacks. Social engineering is involved in 70%-90% of all successful attacks. No other root cause of … Read More

The U.S. government created a new office to block disinformation. The new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) oversees efforts that span U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic agencies.

The Cyberwire reported: “Barracuda released a study this morning indicating that HTML attacks have doubled since last year.

Do you spend too much time creating custom security awareness reports for your C-suite or board of directors? If so, we’re happy to share our new KMSAT feature, Executive Reports.

Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. Now they’re more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and … Read More

March saw a huge jump in ransomware compared to January and February, signifying that organizations should expect to see a lot more of these attacks this year.

New data highlights just how frequently cyber attacks are attempted and organizations are impacted – and the numbers are far more surprising than you’d think.

The malwareless and seemingly benign nature of business email compromise emails, mixed with impersonation techniques, are difficult to spot as being malicious, making them even more dangerous.

According to a recent EY survey, nearly 80% of business leaders are increasing their cybersecurity investment in the next six to 12 months.

I get the WSJ Cybersecurity newsletter, which by the way is warmly recommended. Kim Nash today reported a shocker which will make everyone’s insurance premiums go even further up: “Six years after the worldwide NotPetya cyberattack, a court ruled insurers … Read More

Bloomberg’s Brad Stone wrote an op-ed covering this topic. In the past month, a chatbot called “My AI” or “Sage” has appeared as a new friend for several hundred million Snapchat users. The chatbot utilizes OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence tool, … Read More