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In the digital realm, email communication has become the standard form of communication in our personal, work, and education. Due to the information we consistently send via email, they could easily fall into the wrong hands if left unprotected, bringing about dire consequences such as identity theft and financial losses. To avoid such nightmares, you can use a temporary email to keep your email safe from spam or an encrypted email to protect the contents of the emails you send.

At Black Hat USA 2023, a session led by a team of security researchers, including Fredrik Heiding, Bruce Schneier, Arun Vishwanath, and Jeremy Bernstein, unveiled an intriguing experiment. They tested large language models (LLMs) to see how they performed in both writing convincing phishing emails and detecting them. This is the PDF technical paper.

Threat actors abuse Google AMP for evasive phishing attacks, hackers exploit Salesforce’s email services in targeted Facebook phishing campaign, and Russian actor BlueCharlie alters infrastructure in response to disclosures.

A record 2,322 scams in Japan to steal internet banking IDs and passwords have resulted in unauthorized money transfers totaling a record of around 3 billion yen ($21 million) in the first half of this year, a report by the National Police Agency showed Tuesday. The number of cases mainly involving phishing this year has already surpassed the annual total of any previous year, with the financial loss approaching the record high of 3.07 billion yen set in 2015, according to the agency.

Common indicators of a phishing attempt include warnings from your email service provider, urgent language, threat of dire consequences, too-good-to-be-true offers and more. Continue reading to learn what to look for to spot phishing attempts and how to keep yourself protected.

As a security awareness practitioner, keeping your pulse on industry - and geographical - benchmarking data and best practices is always a good way to measure your organization’s security awareness success. That’s why KnowBe4 has launched its Phishing Benchmarking Analysis Center. It’s intended as a fun, interactive digital hub that allows you to slice and dice security awareness benchmarking data from across various industries and geographical regions.

Staying one step ahead of cybercriminals is absolutely vital in today’s threat landscape. That's why we're thrilled to introduce PhishER Plus, a revolutionary product from KnowBe4 that takes your anti-phishing defense to a whole new level. Phishing attacks remain the top cyberthreat out there. It's tough to keep up with the ever-evolving techniques of bad actors.

As traditional phishing attack attachment types like Office documents dwindle in use, threat actors look for new effective ways to use email as a delivery medium to launch an attack. We’ve seen email attachments being used in cyberattacks for decades now, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone working in an office that a strange attachment type may be malicious. And yet, this trend continues, despite threat actors changing which types of attachments to use.