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KnowBe4

KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity company providing security awareness training and simulated phishing programs to help organizations reduce social-engineering risk.

Known aliases

  • KnowBe4 Threat Lab

Current stories

leadershipOne report1 publisher

North Korean fake IT workers are submitting up to 60 applications a day, and experts urge in-person verification of contractors

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.

Publishers:itpro.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption35
Hype gap+15
Incentives50
Confidence50
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Spring Ring impersonated the help desk over external Teams accounts to relay NTLM at domain controllers

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.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 7%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence60
securityConfirmed6 publishers

ShinyHunters claims the private keys to Clop's onion address after defacing the leak site

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.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 63%
Investor
Investor 19%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption55
Hype gap+35
Incentives78
Confidence62
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Revoking the stolen tokens left GhostCode's Intune device inside the tenant

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.

Publishers:csoonline.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption30
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Direct Send carried 29,785 spoofed internal emails past the mail gateway in two months

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.

Reality

Evidence57
Adoption54
Hype gap+14
Incentives68
Confidence56
productOne report1 publisher

After Arup, a face on a video call is not a credential

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.

Publishers:zdnet.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption32
Hype gap+22
Incentives66
Confidence46