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blog.knowbe4.com > modernizing-cloud-email-security-identity-first

Trust, Verify, Protect: Modernizing Email Security for the Cloud

10+ hour, 19+ min ago  (560+ words) Picture this: Your company just fell victim to a massive data breach. The culprit wasn't a sophisticated malware strain, a zero-day exploit, or a compromised firewall. It was a perfectly legitimate-looking login from a VP’s account, originating from an unrecognized…...

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blog.knowbe4.com > your-email-is-protected.-is-your-teams-chat

Your Email is Protected. Is Your Teams Chat?

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (543+ words) For years, security teams have poured resources into locking down the inbox, and for good reason. Email has always been the front door for phishing and social engineering. Unfortunately, another door has been left wide open: Microsoft Teams. Threat actors…...

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blog.knowbe4.com > cloud-email-security-defenses

5 Essential Cybersecurity Defenses for Cloud Email Security

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (1103+ words) Cloud email has become the center of modern business. Regardless of your organization's industry or size, email connects employees, customers, vendors, executives, financial systems and critical business processes. Unfortunately, attackers know this too. The good news is that protecting cloud…...

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blog.knowbe4.com > the-urgency-trap-why-time-pressure-is-your-biggest-email-red-flag

The ‘Urgency Trap’: Why Time Pressure is Your Biggest Email Red Flag

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (370+ words) 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…...

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blog.knowbe4.com > shipping-themed-phishing-scams-target-the-middle-east-and-africa

Shipping-Themed Phishing Scams Target the Middle East and Africa

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (318+ words) 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,…...

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blog.knowbe4.com > nlp-obfuscation-techniques-email-security-evasion

Creating Noise: The Emerging Obfuscation Technique Designed to Evade Email Security NLP Detection Capabilities

4+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (760+ words) Our Threat Intelligence team has observed an emerging obfuscation technique, specifically used to make Natural Language Processing (NLP) detection capabilities less effective. Broadly, malicious actors are adding additional characters, break lines, and legitimate links to the end of a phishing…...

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blog.knowbe4.com > how-to-identify-a-phishing-website

How to Identify a Phishing Website

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1002+ words) Our increasing dependence on the internet and, specifically, email for business and personal communication has produced the perfect environment for cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks. These numbers are concerning when you consider how costly data breaches can be for businesses....