KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2022

I recently attended a customer’s annual security awareness training employee event. It included everything I think a security awareness training employee event should have. I have attended a bunch of these over the years and I have loved them all. But this particular customer threw a great one!

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

Phishing attacks are a persistent threat to businesses. A staggering 90% of breaches involve phishing, according to Verizon’s Data Breach Digest. And these attacks are on the rise – Proofpoint’s 2019 State of the Phish Report reveals that 83% of survey respondents experienced phishing attacks in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

There are additional safety measures you can (and should) take to teach your child as they grow, things like installing virus protection, enabling multi-factor authentication, using password managers, and raising awareness about phishing scams. Make it a family conversation.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The first phishing campaigns have already been sent and more will be coming that try to trick you into clicking on a variety of links about blood drives, charitable donations, or "exclusive" videos. For KnowBe4 customers, we have a few templates with this topic in the Current Events.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Putting employees in a situation that mirrors a real-life attack, whether it be phishing emails or data breaches, gives them an opportunity to practice how they would respond should the real thing occur. Cooperation is key, not just for security breaches, but for all aspects of a business. Team Exercises.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This helps to explain the rise of social engineering attacks , especially with phishing. Earlier this year, Ballistic Ventures invested $7 million in Nudge Security because of its focus on the modern workforce. This startup takes an interesting approach to security. See the Top Employee Security Awareness Training Tools.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 27, 2019

An employee had fallen for a particularly insidious phishing attack, opened an infected PDF, and unwittingly let ransomware into their internal network. Given the human connection, a security awareness training component promoting the importance of reporting potential cybersecurity or data privacy incidents is crucial.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Cyber security awareness training is one of the most important steps an organisation can take to protect its systems. The same is true of every technology: you can set up a Cloud database to ensure you can access files in the event of server damage, but you’re relying on an employee configuring it correctly. Your staff.

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IT Governance

MAY 22, 2018

The organisation’s complete lack of security awareness led to not only the initial breach but also a string of embarrassments. This immediately aroused customers’ suspicions, as this is exactly the kind of thing a phishing scam would do. Instead, it tweeted a link to a phishing site – four times. A turning point.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The world of cybercriminals, phishing, and malware is scary enough without risky employee behaviors contributing to the frights. Even the best-intentioned employees can sometimes do scary things that expose your organization to security risk. It’s Halloween. Time for zombies, witches, ghosts, and… cyber threats? Training Tip #2.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

They planned a party, coordinated the event, and attended the party within the sim. Soon, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI had GPT-4 spouting homophobic statements, creating phishing emails, and supporting violence." Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users. Users beware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Divide the network into different zones to assist with the principle of least privilege and make specific security measures easier to deploy. This method improves control and containment in the event of a breach by isolating affected segments while protecting the rest.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

link] Affinity Phishing Attacks Use Social Engineering Tactics to Prey on Victims Affinity phishing scams are ones in which criminals cultivate trust in their prospective victims by trading on common background, either real or feigned. Find out how adding PhishER can be a huge time-saver for your Incident Response team!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Sending phishing emails to engineers can be used as an exploitation technique to get them to import malicious configuration files ( CVE-2023-31171 ), which results in arbitrary code execution. Business email compromise (BEC) assaults were the main aim of this large phishing effort, which resulted in significant financial losses.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [Brand-New Benchmark] Here Are Your Updated 2023 Phishing By Industry Benchmark Results With phishing on the rise, your employee's mindset and actions are critical to maintaining a strong security culture in your organization. million simulated phishing security tests.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

We already know that 10% of threats get past security solutions, so we're left with educating the user to stop attacks. Despite 71% of the survey respondents stating they had security awareness training in place, 40% do not conduct regular training, 16% only perform ad hoc training, and 9% only push training when an incident occurs.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Best Cybersecurity Solutions : Overall Vendor Top Startup EDR Firewall SIEM Intrusion Detection Breach and Attack Simulation Encryption Small Business Security Email Security IAM NAC Vulnerability Management Security Awareness Training. Best Security Awareness Training: KnowBe4. Winner : Palo Alto Networks.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That begins with an understanding that there is always a calm before the storm, before an event; and in today’s climate, we cannot afford the reassuring sense that all is well at any given point in time. Spin up more security awareness training to help minimize social engineering, phishing and other user-focused attacks. •If

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This includes protecting diverse technological assets, such as software, hardware, devices, and cloud resources, from potential security flaws like malware, ransomware, theft, phishing assaults, and bots. Assess the physical security measures: Evaluate access controls, surveillance systems, and environmental controls.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

For example, hackers can use packet sniffers or a phishing link using a man-in-the-middle attack. endpoint security (antivirus, Endpoint Detection and Response, etc.), DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.), and Active Directory security (credentials promotion, adding users, etc.).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. And it all started with a single employee falling prey to a phishing email. Employees are aware of the cybersecurity best practices, and regular security awareness workshops are conducted.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 | May 31st, 2023 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks With attackers knowing financial fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should both surprise you and not surprise you at all.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #12 | March 21st, 2023 [Heads Up] This Week's New SVB Meltdown Social Engineering Attacks On Saturday March 11, I warned about the coming wave of phishing attacks that would undoubtedly follow the SVB collapse. We have observed an increase in the registration of fake phishing domains in the U.S. (88%),

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the biggest names in tech are promising to spend more than $30 billion to bolster cybersecurity capabilities, from securing the supply chain and expanding the adoption of the zero trust model to growing the talent pool , ramping up security awareness and revamping parts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

CONTINUED] at the KnowBe4 blog: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users. Delete and not report it, forfeiting a possible early warning?

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CGI

JANUARY 7, 2016

Alternatively it could be one of an increasing number of cyber-attacks known as “spear-phishing.” People at the top of an organization need to communicate the importance of keeping the organization secure and creating a culture of security awareness.

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CGI

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Alternatively it may have been one of an increasing number of cyber attacks made upon people, in this case a “spear-phishing” attack. Senior managers also need to prioritise cyber security – one of the fundamental measures to ensure good cyber security is leadership.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

For many end-users, the frustrating thing about the Viasat hack is that, unlike with a phishing attack, there was nothing they could have done to prevent it. The packages themselves weren't malicious, but they contained README text files with links to phishing sites. Checkmarx has notified NPM's security team about the campaign.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

A startup getting to Unicorn status (valued at a billion or more) on the back of security training is quite a feat. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Learn more about NINJIO Cybersecurity Awareness Training. Network security.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #08 | February 21st, 2023 [Heads Up] Reddit Is the Latest Victim of a Spear Phishing Attack Resulting in a Data Breach There is a lot to learn from Reddit's recent data breach, which was the result of an employee falling for a "sophisticated and highly-targeted" spear phishing attack.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #20 | May 16th, 2023 [Foot in the Door] The Q1 2023's Top-Clicked Phishing Scams | INFOGRAPHIC KnowBe4's latest reports on top-clicked phishing email subjects have been released for Q1 2023. Building up your organization's human firewall by fostering a strong security culture is essential to outsmart bad actors.

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