Password Check Required Immediately -- and more of 2018's most successful phishing subject lines

Which subject lines make a person most likely to click a link in a phishing email? Security awareness training company KnowBe4 has analyzed data from simulated phishing tests and 'in the wild' emails to find out. The most successful lines play on user's desire to remain secure with subjects relating to password checks the most clicked. On social media, messages about tagging or new profile views are most likely to be clicked. "Hackers are leveraging an individual's desire to remain security minded or well informed by playing into his/her psyche," says Perry Carpenter, chief evangelist and strategy officer, KnowBe4. "They… [Continue Reading]