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KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity company providing security awareness training and simulated phishing programs to help organizations reduce social-engineering risk.
North Korean fake IT workers are submitting as many as 60 job applications a day, ITPro reported from new research. Interviews are where these candidates succeed, so identity checks at hiring belong on the security team's list.
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Unit 42 says the crew reached more than 150 employees at ten or more companies without a single software exploit, which puts Teams federation policy and NTLM relay hardening in scope and leaves the endpoint downstream.
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BleepingComputer confirmed the defacement and the file ShinyHunters uploaded to Clop's Tor site. The stolen logs and the onion keys are so far only the attacker's account, and Clop has 72 hours to make contact.
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eSentire says a phishing kit called GhostCode used Microsoft's device-code flow to register three devices within 77 seconds of a victim completing MFA, and one of them stayed enrolled in Intune until it was explicitly removed.
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KnowBe4's Threat Lab logged the messages across July and August 2026. None of them needed a stolen password to look like mail from HR or accounting, and a single send addressed 900 recipients. The report landed September 10.
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KnowBe4 says a new build of the commodity infostealer uses Unicode emoji to break string signatures and keeps its final payload off disk. The lure is a spoofed bank thread aimed at finance teams.
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Fifteen transfers worth about $25m went out because the people on the call looked and sounded right. Detection accuracy is near chance, so the surviving control is procedural.
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