What if your accountant's breach just put 500 employee identities on the dark web for four bucks each? Initial Access Brokers (IABs) are auctioning network access to breached accounting firms, complete with W-2 forms, Social Insurance Numbers, and payroll records. Employees discover the compromise only when the Canada Revenue Agency rejects their tax returns because […]
Your AI Said Safe. Your Browser Said Otherwise. An employee pastes a suspicious link into ChatGPT. The AI scans the page and responds: "This appears to be a harmless fanfiction site." The employee clicks. The browser renders instructions to install a reverse shell in large green text. This divergence occurs because AI assistants analyze the […]
What if your phishing filter can't tell the difference between your CFO and ChatGPT? Your filter checks sender addresses and known malicious links. AI-generated phishing mimics tone, timing, and context so convincingly that employees trust the message more than the system flagging it. Attackers use generative AI to craft emails that sound like your executives, […]
Is Copilot writing your phishing emails for you? An employee clicks 'Summarize' in Microsoft Copilot. The AI returns a clean, formatted security alert urging immediate password reset. The link looks legitimate. The message reads like standard IT protocol. The employee clicks. The attacker planted that message in a benign email using hidden instruction text. Copilot […]
Answers to common questions about KnowBe4 security awareness training, simulated phishing, deployment, and how Optrics helps run and support the platform.
A fake Malwarebytes subscription renewal for $429.99 just appeared in your team's shared calendar. Nobody clicked a link. Nobody opened an attachment. The invoice sits between Tuesday's budget review and Wednesday's project sync, complete with a toll-free number and a three-year renewal period nobody authorized. This is calendar invite phishing. Scammers exploit auto-add settings in […]
The Exposure Window Is Already Open Forty percent of employees have shared sensitive information with large language models. Most did so without permission, and many organizations discovered this only after reviewing access logs months later. Security teams built governance for humans but deployed AI agents without onboarding, access controls, or even an inventory. By the […]
Still Think You Can Patch Your Way Out of 100,000 Zero-Days This Year? Last year saw roughly 48,000 CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). This year, projections point to over 100,000. Most will be zero-days, meaning exploits arrive before patches exist. The gap between discovery and remediation keeps shrinking while the volume keeps climbing. Your patch […]
Researchers testing McKinsey's AI platform discovered something unnerving. Prompts defining agent behavior sat in the same database as user content. A single SQL command could rewrite the rules governing what the AI could access. No privilege escalation needed. No credential theft. Just a query that treated security guardrails like editable configuration. The breach exposed millions […]
Still Training Your Team to Look for Typos in Phishing Emails? AI writes flawless emails now. Your team is clicking on urgent requests that sound perfectly professional because the pressure to act fast overrides every red flag they've been taught to notice. Recent polling shows 34% of workers identify pressure to act quickly as the […]
