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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…
World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it. It worked:
And it…worked. Zleague auto-published a post titled “World of Warcraft Players Excited For Glorbo’s Introduction.”
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That is…all essentially nonsense. The article was left online for a while but has finally been taken down (here’s a mirror, it’s hilarious). All the authors listed as having bylines on the site are fake. It appears this entire thing is run with close to zero oversight…
Scammers are taking advantage of the popularity of the Barbie movie, according to researchers at McAfee.
Zero trust is here to stay, with 82% of experts currently working on implementing zero trust, and 16% planning to begin within 18 months, according to Beyond Identity. Over 90% of those working on zero trust cited that the 2022 Federal Zero Trust Strat…
A new social engineering campaign tracked as “FakeSG” is distributing the NetSupport remote access Trojan (RAT) via phony browser updates, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. The campaign is similar but distinct from the widespread “SocG…
North Korean state-sponsored hackers have been linked to two recent cyberattack campaigns: one involving a spear-phishing attack on JumpCloud and the other targeting tech employees on GitHub through a social engineering campaign. The JumpCloud intrusio…
North Korean hackers are targeting employees at technology firms with repository invitations and malicious NPM packages.
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Kevin Mitnick, who turned legendary hacking exploits and two prison terms into a career as an esteemed cybersecurity leader, died Sunday at age 59 after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer, KnowBe4 revealed today. A memorial will be held August 1 in Las Vegas. Once dubbed “the world’s most wanted hacker” after his youthful exploits […]
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