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Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from July 2024
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Check out the 26 new pieces of training content added in July, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.
Russian Super-Threat Group Fin7 Comes Back from the Dead
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Declared “dead” by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2023, the Russian cyber crime group Fin7 is impersonating some of the top global brands.
Phishing Campaigns Continue To Exploit CrowdStrike Outage
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As expected, threat actors are taking advantage of the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last Friday, SC Media reports.
Your KnowBe4 Compliance Plus Fresh Content Updates from July 2024
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Check out the July updates in Compliance Plus so you can stay on top of featured compliance training content.
North Korean Fake IT Worker FAQ
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blog post about how KnowBe4 inadvertently hired
a skillful North Korean IT worker who used the stolen identity of a US citizen. He
Crypto Data Breach Continues to Fuel Phishing Scams Years Later
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According to security researchers at Cisco Talos, emails impersonating legitimate officers at the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission are being sent to prior Opteck customers that offer victim’s with investment advice.
Is Your Bank Really Calling? How to Protect Yourself from Financial Impersonation Fraud
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Protecting your financial information has never been more crucial.
With the rise of sophisticated scams, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between legitimate bank communications and fraudulent attempts to access your accounts. So, how can you be sure it’s really your bank contacting you?
Phishing Campaigns Abuse Cloud Platforms to Target Latin America
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Several threat actors are abusing legitimate cloud services to launch phishing attacks against users in Latin America, according to Google’s latest Threat Horizons Report.
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
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Incident Report Summary: Insider Threat
TLDR: KnowBe4 needed a software engineer for our internal IT AI team. We posted the job, received resumes, conducted interviews, performed background checks, verified references, and hired the person. We sent them their Mac