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

Zach Marner — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Attackers are getting smarter. AI is making social engineering more convincing, more personalized, and harder to spot than ever before. Training the digital workforce, employees and agents, to recognize threats is necessary, but even the most security-conscious users can still make a mistake at the moment of risk.

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

KnowBe4 Threat Lab — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:00:02 GMT

By Shikhar Dalela and Jeewan Singh Jalal

The operators named the kit themselves.

Buried inside compromised legitimate websites, the hidden staging directory is sometimes literally called “/.bulletproof”, and the PHP session cookie the kit sets on every visitor is named “bp_redir_sess.” The “bp” stands for bulletproof, which is an unusual degree of candor from a threat actor whose entire design philosophy is concealment.

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Compliance Plus Content Updates from July 2026

KnowBe4 Team — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Fran Roberts - Studios General Manager, KnowBe4

Bribery and corruption do not always look the way people expect. They rarely show up as a suitcase of cash or an obvious quid pro quo. More often, they arrive as a favor, a gift, a "just this once" that feels trivial in the moment and catastrophic in hindsight. That gap between perception and reality is where training matters most.

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from July 2026

KnowBe4 Team — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Fran Roberts - Studios General Manager, KnowBe4

Twenty years across studios, agencies and global production environments, sitting through more fire drills and real fires than I can count, has taught me this: it's never luck. It's rehearsal.

Most disruptions aren't dramatic. They're a ransomware attack on a Friday afternoon, a key system going down mid-quarter, a vendor failing at the worst possible moment. Nobody sees those coming. You either drill for them, or you don't.

AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It.

Erich Kron — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:27:11 GMT

This year National Social Engineering Day falls on Aug. 6. This day is designed to give us an opportunity to remind people that cybercriminals do not always need sophisticated malware, an undisclosed vulnerability or a dark room filled with glowing monitors, sometimes, all they need is a good story.

Agent Risk Manager Moves into Early Access

Zach Marner — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:51:10 GMT

When we first introduced Agent Risk Manager, the response was clear: many security teams are actively looking for a way to secure the AI agents already running in their environment and how they can confidently adopt AI across their organization.

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #31 The Majority of Orgs Now Hit by Targeted Impersonation Attacks

KnowBe4 Team — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMT

Shadow IT in the Interconnected Web: A CISO Advisor’s View

Dr. Kawin Boonyapredee — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:00:06 GMT

On World Wide Web Day (August 1), it’s worth celebrating what the web has made possible. It enabled remote work to function at scale, SaaS platforms to deliver capabilities in days instead of months and instantaneous collaboration through shared docs, chats, whiteboards and task tools that update in real time.

Apple Warns Users to be Wary of Unsolicited FaceTime Calls

KnowBe4 Team — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Apple is warning users to be wary of unsolicited FaceTime calls amidst a wave of scams impersonating Apple Support, Malwarebytes reports. The scammers inform the user that there’s been fraudulent activity or a technical problem associated with their account, and trick the victim into handing over payment card details, banking credentials or Apple ID logins.

Everyone's a Builder Now. That Changes Security Training.

Fran Roberts — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:10 GMT

I've spent my career figuring out what makes content stick, from early work for brands like Apple and onward across two decades across film, animation and generative AI. Different tools every few years, same question underneath. What makes someone lean in instead of tuning out?