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New Phishing Scam Leverages Chat To Add Credibility And Ensure Success

Jul 26, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
A new phishing scam is leveraging trusted aspects of ecommerce to make their scams look legitimate. Perception Point has spotted a new level of credibility used by phishing scammers in which fake payment pages include the use of legitimate support chat. Spoofed payment pages resembling marketplace, like Etsy and Upwork, ask business owners to “claim” payments for products or services sold.
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Is Your Bank Really Calling? How to Protect Yourself from Financial Impersonation Fraud

Jul 23, 2024 By Anna Collard In KnowBe4
Protecting your financial information has never been more crucial. With the rise of sophisticated scams, it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between legitimate bank communications and fraudulent attempts to access your accounts. So, how can you be sure it's really your bank contacting you? The Vulnerability of Personal Information First, it's important to understand that our personal details are more accessible than we might think.
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Phishing Campaigns Abuse Cloud Platforms to Target Latin America

Jul 23, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
Several threat actors are abusing legitimate cloud services to launch phishing attacks against users in Latin America, according to Google’s latest Threat Horizons Report. One threat actor, tracked as “PINEAPPLE,” impersonated Brazil’s revenue service, Receita Federal do Brasil, to deliver the Astaroth infostealer.
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Phishing Attacks Will Likely Follow Last Week's Global IT Outage

Jul 22, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
Organizations should expect to see phishing attacks exploiting the global IT outage that occurred last Friday, the Business Post reports. I recently wrote my thoughts about the outage that was caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that was extremely disruptive globally. The outage was caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that crashed Windows systems, disrupting airlines, banks, hospitals, governments, and businesses around the world.
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78% of Organizations Are Targets of Ransomware Attacks Two or More Times in Twelve Months

Jul 19, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
New data puts the spotlight on the frequency and impact of modern ransomware attacks, highlighting the overconfidence organizations are showing in their ability to defend and respond to attacks. If you’re like one of the organizations surveyed in Halcyon’s latest Ransomware CISO Survey report, the findings were quite eye opening.
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CrowdStrike Phishing Attacks Appear in Record Time

Jul 19, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. Within hours of mass IT outages on Friday, a surge of new domains began appearing online, all sharing one common factor: the name CrowdStrike. As the company grapples with a global tech outage that has delayed flights and disrupted emergency services, opportunistic cybercriminals are quick to exploit the chaos.
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7 in 10 Organizations Experienced a Business Email Compromise Attack in the Last 12 Months

Jul 18, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
Despite ransomware getting the lion’s share of the tech pub headlines, business email compromise (BEC) attacks are alive and well… and having a material impact. New data from Arctic Wolf’s 2024 State of Cybersecurity report shows that BEC attacks – whether attempted or successful – are far more widely felt than previously thought.
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Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack May Cost Nearly $2.5 Billion

Jul 18, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
The ransomware attack against UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare platform is expected to cost the company up to $2.45 billion, more than a billion dollars more than was previously estimated, Cybersecurity Dive reports. The incident has already cost the firm nearly $2 billion.
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