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KnowBe4: Phishing is still the No. 1 attack vector, with huge 144% malicious URL spike

According to new report from Hornetsecurity, which analysed 45 billion emails sent in 2023, phishing remains the No.1 cyber-attack method used by cybercriminals. KnowBe4 comments on the report and notes how the KnowBe4 platform can be used to strengthen their security culture and reduce human risk. The Hornetsecurity Cyber Security Report 2024 digs into the […]

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KnowBe4 phishing test results reveal IT and online services emails drive dangerous attack trend

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, FEATURED NEWS, MEMBER NEWS, NEWS / By Christian Brown

The results of the Q1 2023 top-clicked phishing report have been released by KnowBe4 and include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests from organisations. It showcases the shift in phishing topics to IT and online service notifications such as laptop refresh or account suspension notifications that can affect end users’ daily work.

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Lookout mobile phishing report shows 2022 as being the worst on record for attacks

Leave a Comment / NEWS, FEATURED NEWS, MEMBER NEWS / By Christian Brown

Lookout has released its Global State of Mobile Phishing report which found 2022 having the highest percentage of mobile phishing encounter rates ever, with an average of more than 30% of personal and enterprise users exposed to these attacks every quarter. Lookout also found that users on all devices – whether personal or work provided

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One in three untrained employees will click on a phishing link says KnowBe4’s Annual Benchmarking Report

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

KnowBe4 has released its new 2022 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organisation’s Phish-prone Percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for phishing or a social engineering scam. With ransomware payments averaging $580,000 in 2021 and business email compromise (BEC) losses topping $1.8 billion in 2020, a

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Nation of Digital Defenders report over 10 million suspect emails

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

Savvy Brits have reported over 10.5 million suspicious emails to the UK’s cyber experts, resulting in the take down of 76,000 online scams. Scams related to the NHS, online delivery companies, cryptocurrency investments and more have all been stamped out thanks to public reports to the National Cyber Security Centre, which is a part of

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KnowBe4 releases Q4 2021 global phishing report

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

KnowBe4 has announced the results of its Q4 2021 top-clicked phishing report. “When comparing the results from the U.S. phishing emails to those in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), email subjects in the U.S. appear to originate from the users’ organisations and are focused on security alerts related to passwords and internal company policy

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KnowBe4 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report

KnowBe4 releases Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report

Leave a Comment / Business News, Cyber Security, NEWS / By James Ling

KnowBe4 has released a new Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organisation’s Phish-Prone percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for a phishing or social engineering scam. The initial baseline phishing test was administered to organisations that had not conducted any KnowBe4 security awareness training. The results

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Opinion | Phishing for humans – what do the numbers teach us?

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS, Opinion / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

Javvad Mailk, Security Awareness Advocate of KnowBe4, gives his insight on phishing attempts over the last quarter Humans are curious. They also want to inherently “fix” things”. And they’re social beings. These are all traits that cyber attackers prey on – it’s what makes phishing so successful. Every quarter, we look to analyse what types

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KnowBe4 releases Q1 2021 top-clicked phishing report

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

KnowBe4 has recently revealed the results of its Q1 2021 top-clicked phishing report, which reveals that despite still seeing phishing email attacks related to COVID-19, users are becoming more savvy and alert to these types of scams. “With COVID-19 being around for over a year now and employees becoming more aware of the types of

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Data breach roundtable | LinkedIn shadows Facebook’s error

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, Data Centres, NEWS / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

Earlier this week, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. Now, there is news of another huge data leak involving LinkedIn with 500 million users’ data being compromised, according to reports. Information that has been leaked includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links

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Data breach roundtable | Vulnerability calls for Accountability

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS / By Zoe Deighton Smythe

A new data forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. The exposed data, published on 3rd April, includes the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from over 100 countries, including 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the

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KnowBe4 finds rise in work from home-related phishing attacks

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security, NEWS / By James Ling

KnowBe4’s Q4 2020 top-clicked phishing report reveals that work-related email subjects such as corporate policy changes are becoming more popular with the coronavirus pandemic continuing to keep more people working from home. Covering the entire fourth quarter, real phishing emails that were reported to IT departments related to working from home are on the rise.

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KnowBe4: Phishing is still the No. 1 attack vector, with huge 144% malicious URL spike

KnowBe4 phishing test results reveal IT and online services emails drive dangerous attack trend

Lookout mobile phishing report shows 2022 as being the worst on record for attacks

One in three untrained employees will click on a phishing link says KnowBe4’s Annual Benchmarking Report

Nation of Digital Defenders report over 10 million suspect emails

KnowBe4 releases Q4 2021 global phishing report

KnowBe4 releases Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report

Opinion | Phishing for humans – what do the numbers teach us?

KnowBe4 releases Q1 2021 top-clicked phishing report

Data breach roundtable | Vulnerability calls for Accountability

KnowBe4 finds rise in work from home-related phishing attacks

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