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The old rules for spotting a phishing email are changing. Remember looking for bad grammar and clumsy spelling? Thanks to AI, hackers' emails are increasingly polished and hard to spot. But a new poll from KnowBe4 reveals the modern worker's most reliable alarm bell for a cyberattack isn't a typo; it's a sense of manufactured urgency.

Digital Cleanup Day might be seen as a digital chore: delete old files, clear the inbox, reduce your carbon footprint. It’s framed as a technical exercise. But digital cleanup isn't only about your hard drive; it’s also about your mind. We are currently drowning in "Digital Toxicity" vast amounts of redundant, obsolete, and trivial data. This isn't just a storage issue. It’s a security crisis. Why? Because you cannot protect data you don’t remember you have.

I am very proud of our customer community here at KnowBe4. It is a place where customers can discuss our products amongst each other and interface with KnowBe4’s developers and product managers. Allowing customers to interface with other customers allows them to hear suggestions and solutions that people using our product have discovered and used, and if they have a problem that a fellow customer can’t answer, our team is there.

A surge in shipping-related phishing scams is targeting the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, according to researchers at Group-IB. “To deliver the scam, the attacker sends a phishing link to victims via SMS using various spoofing or bulk-message techniques,” the researchers write. “These links are typically optimized for mobile devices, since most victims open SMS messages on their phones.

Integrated cloud email security (ICES) is a term coined by industry analyst, Gartner, in their 2021 Market Guide for Email Security. The guide was reissued in 2023 and stated that ‘by 2025, 20% of anti-phishing solutions will be delivered via API integration with the email platform, up from less than 5%” at the time of publication’.

Anyone who knows me knows I’m passionate about mindfulness. Because I genuinely believe it makes us better humans. But also, because I have one of those brains that desperately needs it. I’m easily distracted and I start new ideas before finishing old ones. My attention can scatter in a hundred directions. I wrote before how I clicked on a phishing test because I was multitasking and running on autopilot. And that moment really changed the direction of my career and my research.

As I was writing my latest book, How AI and Quantum Impact Cyber Threats and Defenses, I was hit by how many theoretical and real attacks there are involving AI. There are attacks committed by AI and attacks committed agsinst AI, and I’m not sure which category is bigger.

Sending an unsecured email can be likened to writing sensitive information on a sticky note and leaving it on someone else's desk: anybody can intercept and share that information. Fortunately, there are ways to ensure your emails are safe from the prying eyes of hackers through encryption, meaning your message — no matter how sensitive — is seen only by the intended recipient.