Fraud & Scams

Unmasking the Invisible: How to Identify AI Tools, Hidden Devices, and Other Unknown Assets on Your Network

You cannot protect what you do not know exists.

Apple now uses iPhone alerts for targets of mercenary spyware

Apple explains how Threat Notifications help protect iPhone users targeted by mercenary spyware.

WhatsApp is testing a new warning for scam messages

An optional new feature uses on-device AI to flag messages that look like scams.

Shadow AI: The New Frontier of Shadow IT

As a CISO advisor, I am observing a familiar pattern gaining a new, critical dimension. What we historically identified as "Shadow…

Warning: Vishing Attacks Open the Door to Ransomware Gangs

An initial access broker for ransomware gangs is targeting organizations with voice phishing (vishing) attacks through Microsoft T…

Iranian APT Launches AI-Assisted Spear Phishing Attacks

The Iran-linked threat actor APT42 is using AI-assisted phishing attacks to target U.S. organizations amidst the Iran-US war, acco…

New Android malware lets criminals use your bank card in real time

Social engineering, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT), and NFC relay malware walk up to an ATM. It's no joke. Together, they can empty…

Parents take on Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap in 3,000 youth safety lawsuits

It's the biggest legal challenge yet to addictive social media design and its impact on children.

Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams

A survey from Trustmi found that most employees believe they’d be able to spot a social engineering attack, but those same employe…

The Talent Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime

"Someone online shows them a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls them in. Everyone's doing it. It feels…

“Zoomsday” flaws could let one Zoom participant attack another

Update Zoom now to protect against critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker in the same meeting to run malicious code…

Patch Tuesday: Update now to fix 421 flaws, including three zero-days

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fixes 421 vulnerabilities, including three zero-days, 62 critical flaws, and dozens of Office rem…

Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever

AI agents offer unprecedented capabilities, speed, automation, deep context, and hyper-personalization, that will transform how we…

FTC Sends More than $23.8 Million to Drivers and Diners Harmed by Grubhub’s Deceptive Advertising Claims and Other Unlawful Conduct

The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling more than $23.8 million to drivers harmed by Grubhub’s deceptive earning…

Fake CCleaner installs GhostDesk Chrome spyware

A convincing fake CCleaner website delivers a multi-stage malware attack that installs a spyware extension inside Chrome.

Why You Can’t Arrest Your Way Out of Youth Cybercrime

Two days at INTERPOL on youth cybercrime, why offender prevention is real police work and why it has to out-recruit rather than ou…

Valve warns Steam hardware buyers: Expect fake delivery scams

The warning affects recent buyers of Steam hardware, including the hugely popular Steam Deck.

Social media platforms crack down on drone factory recruiting game

Researchers found that games and major US social media platforms were used to lure young people into jobs in Russia's drone indust…

Sexual predators targeting online accounts for intimate images, FBI warns

The FBI is warning that criminals are breaking into social media to steal and distribute non-consensual intimate images and videos…

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #32 The Hugging Face Hack Is Now A PR Crisis That’s Costing OpenAI Millions

Love/hate relationship: The AI affair. Young people love AI, but it’s breaking their trust

The same technology making our lives easier is also making it harder. How are young people navigating this new world?

[FREE RESOURCE KIT] Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kit 2026 Now Available

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Equip your team with the intel they need to stay ahead of global threat actors and t…

Watch out for fake TikTok Shops trying to steal your money

TikTok Shop is huge, so it's no wonder that impersonation shops have popped up. Here's how to stay safe.

Fake popular sites offer a free app, instead take over PCs

Fake branded download pages are tricking Windows users into installing legitimate remote-access software that's being abused by at…

Introducing Real-Time Coaching in KnowBe4’s AI-Native Security Awareness Training

Attackers are getting smarter. AI is making social engineering more convincing, more personalized, and harder to spot than ever be…

How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (Lock and Code S07E16)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Chris Parr about his inventive and all-too-funny stress-test of surveillance…

The Blind Spot: How “Bulletproof” Phishing Redirectors Slip Past SEGs

By Shikhar Dalela and Jeewan Singh Jalal The operators named the kit themselves. Buried inside compromised legitimate websit…

New turnkey kit makes it easy for anyone to become a scammer

We discovered a kit that gave us an insight into how modern online scams are built, promoted, and potentially used to target every…

Sexual Exploitation Actors Stealing and Leaking Explicit Content

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Compliance Plus Content Updates from July 2026

Fran Roberts - Studios General Manager, KnowBe4 Bribery and corruption do not always look the way people expect. They rarely…