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Most social engineering scams search out their potential victims, often sending emails to known email addresses, sending chat messages to them or calling known phone numbers. The attackers take an active role in seeking out and making contact …
As a security awareness practitioner, keeping your pulse on industry – and geographical – benchmarking data and best practices is always a good way to measure your organization’s security awareness success.
Most organizations are still using weak forms of multi-factor authentication (MFA), a survey by Nok Nok has found. These forms of MFA can be bypassed if an employee falls for a social engineering attack.
A few weeks ago, GitHub posted on their blog a recent security alert that should have any organization in the tech industry worried.
There is no such thing as a vacation for cybercriminals. We recently released our top summer cybersecurity travel tips to help keep you safe. Earlier this year, we posted about travel-themed phishing attacks, and Forbes just posted a great rem…
New AI-powered cybercrime tools suggest that the capability of AI hacking tools may be evolving rapidly. The creator of FraudGPT, and potentially also WormGPT, is actively developing the next generation of cybercrime chatbots with much more advanced capabilities. Daniel Kelley, a reformed black hat hacker and researcher at cybersecurity firm SlashNext, posed as a potential […]
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Researchers at BlueVoyant warn that attackers are increasingly adding an extra step to their phishing campaigns, impersonating third-parties to lend credibility to the scams.
An APT group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has hit employees of several dozen global organizations with phishing attacks via Microsoft Teams, says Microsoft. A social engineering attack to bypass MFA protection “To facilit…
Security experts from HackerOne and beyond weigh in on malicious prompt engineering and other attacks that could strike through LLMs.
This blog was co-written by KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist Roger A. Grimes and Chief Learning Officer John Just.
Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of successful compromises. It is the number one way that hackers and malw…