The massive uptick in QR Code phishing is an indicator that scammers are seeing success in taking victims from the initial attack medium to one under the attacker’s control. It’s usually bad when we compare one month or quarter to another and see an increase. But when it’s a single month compared to more than half a year, you know it’s REALLY bad. And that’s what we find in security vendor ReliaQuest’s latest blog covering how Quishing is being used.
Social engineering remains one of the top attack vectors that cybercriminals use to execute malicious acts. KnowBe4’s security awareness training and simulated phishing platform allows workforces to make smarter decisions, strengthen an organization’s security culture and human risk by protecting their organization from phishing, social engineering and ransomware.
Man Bites Dog: In an unusual twist in cybercrime, the ransomware group BlackCat/ALPHV is manipulating the SEC's new 4-day rule on cyber incident reporting to increase pressure on their victims. This latest maneuver highlights a sophisticated understanding of regulatory impacts in ransomware strategies.
New findings show that the overwhelming majority of people have to sort through scam messages and texts. According to McAfee’s Global Scam Message Study, more than 80% of Americans say it’s more difficult than ever to spot a text, email or social media message that’s a scam. The proliferation of such messages sent via email and SMS is giving the average person a real sense that even they could become a victim if they’re not careful.
Researchers at Pindrop have published a report looking at consumer interactions with AI-generated deepfakes and voice clones. “Consumers are most likely to encounter deepfakes and voice clones on social media,” the researchers write. “The top four responses for both categories were YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. You will note the bias toward video on these platforms as YouTube and TikTok encounters were materially higher.
In this blog, we'll take a look at the well-known Sunburst attack of 2018 and how the specific charges stemming from this attack will impact Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) moving forward. As a CISO, it’s my job to ensure that KnowBe4's information systems and data, including our customer’s data, remain protected from any and all cyber attacks. The state of any organization’s cybersecurity rests with the CISO (if they have one).
In a recent official advisory, the FBI warned about the threat of callback phishing (among other threats). Below is the relevant excerpt. If you are not familiar with callback phishing, it is usually a phishing email that arrives into a user’s email inbox, containing some sort of usual phishing message requiring the user’s urgent response. But unlike traditional email phishing, it does not contain a URL linked to a malicious site or content.
KnowBe4 is proud to be recognized by TrustRadius for our Security Awareness Training and PhishER platforms in three categories for Best Value for Price, Best Relationship and Best Feature Set. The Best of Awards highlight products providing customers with outstanding ROI, customer satisfaction, performance, reviews, and more. To win a Best of Award, each organization had to receive 10 TrustRadius reviews between January 1 and September 30, 2023.
As ransom payments reach an all-time high, it’s time to look at attacks from a data perspective and find the greatest opportunities to stop these attacks. Every quarter, I’ve been covering the Quarterly Ransomware Reports from ransomware response company Coveware. In their latest report covering Q3 of this year, we get a greater sense of what trends their security researchers are seeing from the data: This last one is interesting.
A phishing campaign is exploiting a large number of.top domains, according to researchers from WhoisXML API. In an article for CircleID, the researchers analyzed a phishing operation first uncovered by security researcher Dancho Danchev. “Our DNS deep dive into the phishing campaign led to the discovery of 5,245 unreported potentially connected threat artifacts, a majority of which were.top domains,” the researchers write.
