KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. Let's drill down a bit more in the social engineering section. This is social engineering (pretexting specifically) and it takes more skill.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately, scammers often use gift cards as a way to steal value from their victims. There are dozens of ways gift cards can be used by scammers to steal money. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Did You Know? million in 16 months.".

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JULY 5, 2023

We've seen plenty of attacks that impersonated a single brand along with a few domains used to ensure victims can be taken to a website that seeks to harvest credentials or steal personal information. Some of the domains have even existed long enough to be displayed at the top of natural search results.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

The general message on vulnerabilities at the conference is that cybersecurity is a constant game of preparing for the latest and most dangerous tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). Organizations must validate their application access systems to ensure malicious actors aren’t capable of cracking the crypto. Old way New way.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of successful compromises. It is the number one way that all hackers and malware compromise devices and networks. No other initial root cause comes close (unpatched software and firmware is a distant second being involved in about 33% of attacks). This is that fact: ".spear

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act states that businesses must offer clear instructions on how the recipient can remove themselves from the involved mailing list and that request must be honored within 10 days. The unsubscribe feature does not have to be a URL link, but it does have to be an "internet-based way."

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company. "'There was this big migration of data from on-prem to cloud, and the next big shift is going to be the migration of data into these generative apps," he says.

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