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Human risk management involves more than security awareness training, but training is a huge part of the mix. How else are you going to best fight a cyberthreat that is responsible for 70% to 90% of all successful data breaches after already bypassing every technical cybersecurity defense you threw in its way? At some point, a harmful scam message will make it to a user, and that user will be called upon to evaluate its importance and treatment.

The FBI is warning that threat actors are impersonating senior US officials in phishing attacks designed to compromise users’ accounts. Notably, the attackers are using AI-generated audio to convincingly spoof the voices of real people.

Since March 2025, the KnowBe4 Threat Labs team has observed a surge in phishing attacks that exploit Google’s AppSheet platform to launch a highly targeted, sophisticated campaign impersonating social media platform giant Meta.

Many organizations, after a period of relative quiet, might believe the ransomware bubble has burst. The headlines may have shifted, and other emerging cyber threats might seem to dominate the news cycle, but recent data from Marsh's 2024 UK cyber insurance claims report suggests otherwise. It paints a stark picture of an ongoing and evolving threat landscape. While claims decreased by 20% compared to 2023, they remained significantly higher than in previous years.

The FBI has issued an alert on a wave of phishing attacks targeting Middle Eastern students who are studying in the US. The campaign has targeted students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan. The scammers impersonate government officials and claim there is an issue with the student’s visa.

I got this Coinbase-related scam in my personal inbox last week. Coinbase is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange sites. So big and trusted, it’s the first cryptocurrency exchange to be added to the US S&P 500. I’ve been a Coinbase member from the beginning, so this email got my attention. I was pretty skeptical from the start, and upon further exploration, it was definitely a scam.

Commodity phishing kits are increasingly serving dynamically generated phishing pages, according to researchers at ESET. These kits allow unskilled threat actors to launch sophisticated attacks tailored to individual users. ESET describes one of these attacks, using a phishing email that informed the user of an unfamiliar sign-in to their account.

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and human risk management (HRM), not all AI is created equal. You need an approach to AI that demonstrably enhances your security posture, integrates seamlessly with your existing processes and operates as an extension of your team. AI should be in service of a larger goal rather than exist for its own sake.. We’re talking benefits, not just features. An established history of innovation, not capabilities that are too little, too late.

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks and funds transfer fraud (FTF) accounted for 60% of cyber insurance claims in 2024, according to a new report from Coalition. “Business email compromise is an event in which cyber criminals gain access to an organization’s email account to execute a cyber attack,” the cyber insurance provider explains. “Attackers often leverage email access to find sensitive data, including login credentials, financials, and other private information.

Agentic AI-enabled ransomware is not here yet, but likely will be very soon. I am talking this year or by 2026. Here is why. What is Agentic AI? First, it helps to define what agentic AI is. To do that, we have to start by defining what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is…and doing that is a bit like trying to nail the proverbial Jello to a wall.