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81% of Small Businesses Sustained a Cyber Incident Over the Past Year

Dec 19, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Eighty-one percent of small businesses suffered a security or data breach over the past year, and 38% of these businesses were forced to raise their prices as a result, a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has found. The report notes that external hackers have overtaken malicious insiders as the most common root cause of these incidents. This trend is partially driven by AI-assisted social engineering attacks, which were cited as a root cause by more than 41% of victims.
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Unmasking the Deepfake Threat: A Game-Changer for Reducing Human Risk

Dec 18, 2025 By Roger Grimes In KnowBe4
Today, anyone can find a picture of absolutely anybody and it is also not difficult to find a sample of their voice. By combining these it is shockingly easy to create a realistic AI deepfake video of that person. The video may not be perfect, and an experienced AI deepfake enthusiast might be able to see signs of it not being real, but it will be good enough to fool 99% of people. Cybercriminals have been creating and using AI-enabled deepfake technologies since early 2024 to socially engineer people.
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WeChat Phishing Attacks a Growing Threat Outside China

Dec 18, 2025 By KnowBe4 Threat Lab In KnowBe4
“Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to mobile payments, ride booking, ordering food deliveries, paying bills and even accessing government services. Provided by Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent, WeChat has become deeply integrated into daily life in China and usage has been spreading globally. The app now boasts over 1.4 billion active users (24.8% of total internet users).
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Mexico Unveils Its First National Cybersecurity Plan: A New Era of Digital Resilience

Dec 17, 2025 By Erich Kron In KnowBe4
Mexico has taken a major step toward strengthening its digital defenses with the official unveiling of its first National Cybersecurity Plan, a landmark initiative that establishes the country’s first specialized policy framework for cybersecurity.
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Phishing Campaign Targets Executives With Phony Awards

Dec 16, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
A phishing campaign is targeting executives with phony offers for awards, according to researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs. The attackers first dupe the victims into handing over their credentials, then use the ClickFix social engineering technique to trick them into installing malware. “The campaign uses a high-value executive recognition lure, ‘Cartier Recognition Program,’ to target executives,” the researchers write.
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FAIK Everything: The Deepfake Training Playbook

Dec 16, 2025 By KnowBe4 | Human Risk Management In KnowBe4
Learn how to understand, combat, and even create synthetic media in this essential deepfake training session with Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4's Chief Human Risk Management Strategist. Deepfakes and synthetic media are no longer futuristic threats—they are here now, and organizations are already experiencing deepfake-related attacks. A May 2024 study showed that 25.9% of organizations have experienced deepfake-related attacks, with other indicators suggesting the number may be closer to 90%. It is high time to prepare people to deal with this evolving threat.
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[Heads Up] Crafty New Phishing Attacks Abuse Free Cloudflare Pages

Dec 15, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Malwarebytes warns that threat actors are abusing the free Cloudflare Pages service to host phishing portals, helping the phishing sites avoid detection by security scanners. The attackers are building fake login pages impersonating banking, insurance, and healthcare entities. The pages are designed to harvest credentials as well as security questions and multifactor authentication codes.
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Deepfake Training: A Strategic Advantage Against Emerging Threats

Dec 15, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Deepfake attacks have become more compelling and realistic than ever before. Attackers are impersonating trusted leaders with convincing videos and voice, making it harder for employees to know what is real. Traditional awareness training is a good start, but nothing replaces first-hand exposure to real and synthetic content when it comes to telling deepfake videos from authentic ones. That’s why today we’re introducing KnowBe4’s Deepfake Training Content.
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