North Korea’s fraudulent employment operations have expanded to hit countries around the world, with a particular focus on Europe, according to researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. While the United States remains a key target, the expansion to other countries is likely…
A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform dubbed ‘Lucid’ is driving a surge in SMS phishing (smishing) attacks, according to researchers at Prodaft. The platform is operated by Chinese cybercriminals who offer access to the service under a subscription model. A Lucid subscription allows crooks…
Phishing Attacks Lead to Theft in the Shipping Industry Stu Sjouwerman 3Apr https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html#dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.knowbe4.com%2Fphishing-attacks-lead-to-theft-in-the-shipping-industry%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz--20egtIsd450lnE-spKVgzNKlP1QBtqNLBVxkqrvXEO9qtPwzfPKSuRwdN_zFzOVDxM-z0zEj3fg_87rs00itg7-FHGA%26_hsmi%3D355105902%26utm_content%3D355105902%26utm_source%3Dhs_email&size=m&text=Phishing%20Attacks%20Lead%20to%20Theft%20in%20the%20Shipping%20Industry&time=1743746365331&type=share&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.knowbe4.com%2Fphishing-attacks-lead-to-theft-in-the-shipping-industry Share https://www.facebook.com/v3.0/plugins/share_button.php?app_id=&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Dfb0b4b823c7edab26%26domain%3Dblog.knowbe4.com%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fblog.knowbe4.com%252Ffac0e8b26018c9af6%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=0&href=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.knowbe4.com%2Fphishing-attacks-lead-to-theft-in-the-shipping-industry&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey Phishing attacks are driving a surge in “double brokering” scams in the shipping industry, according to Christian Reilly, Cloudflare’s Field CTO for EMEA. In an article…
The team and I were just looking at our first few months where we had just over 20,000 customer completions in June of 2021. We have since had millions of users complete our content and the library has grown from 115…
99% of phishing emails that reached inboxes last year did not contain malware, according to a new report from Fortra. Attackers were much more successful using malicious links or purely response-based social engineering. Fortra explains, “Anti-malware scanning, sandboxing, and other pre-delivery security processes…
On March 3, 2025, the KnowBe4 Threat Labs team observed a massive influx of phishing attacks originating from legitimate Microsoft domains. KnowBe4 Defend detected activity starting on February 24th, with a peak on March 3rd, when 7,000 attacks from microsoft-noreply@microsoft.com…
