There’s nothing new about Nigerian prince scam emails – they usually follow the same pattern of someone needing help moving millions of dollars from an African country and the promise of a sizable cut ...

The old adage of people being the weakest link in security is especially true when it comes to email threats. Here, cybercriminals can arguable generate their biggest “bang for the buck” by socially ...

Stu Sjouwerman is the Founder and CEO of KnowBe4 Inc., the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. Last month, scammers tricked the small town of Peterborough, New ...

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks, where scammers impersonate or even hijack legitimate email accounts to commit fraud, is on the rise. According to Barracuda’s latest Spear Phishing report, BEC ...

While published trends in ransomware attacks have been contradictory — with some firms tracking more incidents and other fewer — business email compromise (BEC) attacks continue to have proven success ...

Business email compromise attacks now targeting people via SMS messages Your email has been sent No longer limited to email, BEC attacks are hitting users through text messages in an attempt to steal ...

Business email compromised (BEC) attacks have seen an explosive 476% growth between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018, while the number of email fraud attempts against companies increased 226% QoQ. BEC attacks use ...