| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.08.2024 | Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines | Think you’ve received an important document from HR? Be careful.
KnowBe4’s quarterly phishing test report found that threat actors in Q2 often found success with emails spoofing HR departments. After an ill-fated click occurred, links in th... |
| 28.05.2024 | Redefining digital security: 10 European startups driving cybersecurity innovation | - |
| 01.04.2024 | Malicious QR codes hide attacks in plain sight [Q&A] | With their ability to provide access to websites, enable mobile payments, and retrieve data, QR (quick-response) codes have become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. In fact, In 2022, approximately 89 million smartphone users in the Unit... |
| 12.11.2023 | The CISO and the SEC: Navigating the complex role of the CISO under SEC disclosure rules | I’ve led security functions and established cybersecurity board reporting processes for over 25 years. The relationship between CEOs and CISOs has always held contradictions and the decisions around when to disclose a breach have always bee... |
| 30.10.2023 | Phishing emails increase over 1,200 percent since ChatGPT launch | A new survey of over 300 cybersecurity professionals from SlashNext looks at cybercriminal behavior and activity on the Dark Web particularly as it relates to leveraging Generative AI tools and chatbots and finds a startling 1,265 percent i... |
| 19.10.2023 | QR codes used in 22 percent of phishing attacks | As QR codes have become popular, they're used for all kinds of things from mobile payments to access control and even document sharing. The problem is that they can also hide risks so it's no surprise that they're becoming a popular vehicle... |
| 19.07.2023 | Training makes critical infrastructure employees better at spotting phishing attacks | New research from security behavior change specialist Hoxhunt shows that 66 percent of active participants in security behavior training programs at critical infrastructure organizations detect and report at least one real malicious email a... |
| 28.06.2023 | Zimperium report finds a 187% increase in fully exploited mobile devices
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One-click below supports our mission to provid... | A new report from mobile security platform provider Zimperium Inc. finds increasing vulnerabilities in the mobile landscape and an expanding attack surface created by the rapid adoption of mobile devices and apps.
The company’s Global Mobil... |
| 19.06.2023 | Hoxhunt Appoints Petri Kuivala as Chief Information Security Officer Advisor | Hoxhunt, the leading cybersecurity behavior change software company, announced the appointment of Petri Kuivala as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Advisor. As CISO Advisor, Kuivala will work closely with the CISOs and security tea... |
| 10.05.2023 | Combating phishing and social engineering threats [Q&A] | The majority of cyberattacks are made possible by some degree of human error. Phishing emails and social engineering continue to dominate as the most common delivery systems for an attack.
We spoke to Mika Aalto, CEO and co-founder at Hoxhu... |
| 16.03.2023 | Hoxhunt ChatGPT/Cybersecurity Research Reveals: Humans 1, AI 0 | Hoxhunt, the leading cybersecurity behavior change software company, released a research report that analyzes the effectiveness of ChatGPT-generated phishing attacks. The study, which analyzed more than 53,000 email users in over 100 countr... |
| 15.03.2023 | Humans write better phishing emails than AI | There's been a fair bit of hype recently surrounding the potential for ChatGPT and similar tools to be used for creating phishing campaigns, eliminating the typos and other errors that are the giveaways of a scam.
However, new research from... |
| 15.03.2023 | Study finds humans beat ChatGPT when creating phishing attacks
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes Amazon ... | Cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. today released the findings of a new study into the effectiveness of ChatGPT-generated phishing attacks, and though the technology continues to improve, humans actually delivered better r... |
| 15.03.2023 | Humans are still better at creating phishing emails than AI — for now | Image: Gstudio/Adobe Stock
Amid all of the buzz around ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence apps, cybercriminals have already started using AI to generate phishing emails. For now, human cybercriminals are still more accomplished at de... |
| 02.03.2023 | Hoxhunt Launches Breakthrough Human Risk Management Platform | Hoxhunt, the leading cybersecurity behavior change software company, announced the availability of the industry’s foremost Human Risk Management Platform and three new products. For the first time, cybersecurity leaders can now focus on tru... |
| 20.08.2022 | How the banking and financial industries are gearing up against phishing | Phishing has become a matter of grave concern for banks and financial institutions, as attacks on the industry have increased in recent years. Finance is the most impersonated industry in phishing campaigns. Some 35 percent of fake websites... |
| 31.05.2022 | Hoxhunt raises $40M to solve the hardest part of cybersecurity: people | Hoxhunt raises $40M to solve the hardest part of cybersecurity: people
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HELSINKI, Finland – May 31, 2022 – Cybersecurity training platform Hoxhunt, Finland’s fastest-growing SaaS company accord... |
| 31.05.2022 | Finnish cybersecurity startup Hoxhunt raises $40M amid raising cyberattack numbers | With the ongoing global economic downturn, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for cash-strapped startups to raise funding to support their operations. Many have turned to capital preservation measures including layoffs to keep their busin... |
| 31.05.2022 | Hoxhunt Raises $40M in Series B Funding | Hoxhunt team
Hoxhunt, a Helsinki, Finland – based cybersecurity training platform provider, raised $40 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Level Equity Management, with participation from existing investor Icebreaker.vc.
The c... |
| 31.05.2022 | Gamified platform Hoxhunt hunts down $40 million to enable employees to respond to cyberattacks | Cybercrime represents an ever-worsening pandemic costing global businesses trillions of dollars per year. Cybersecurity spending is projected to grow from $262.4 billion in 2022 to $458.9 billion in 2025, with tightening regulatory and insu... |
| 31.05.2022 | Cybersecurity startup Hoxhunt raises $40m to teach employees to detect phishing | Today, the Finnish cybersecurity training platform Hoxhunt announced it raised a $40m Series B round led by New York-based Level Equity Management, with existing investor Icebreaker.vc also participating. What does Hoxhunt do?
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| 31.05.2022 | Finnish cybersecurity startup Hoxhunt raises $40M in Series B from Level Equity | Finnish cybersecurity startup Hoxhunt raises $40M in Series B from Level Equity
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| 28.04.2020 | Hoxhunt Looks to Strengthen the Human Element in Cybersecurity | Ernest Hamilton, Tech Times 28 April 2020, 11:04 pm
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Most companies already operate on the premise that cyberattacks can cause them great harm. As such, they are alread... |
| 22.10.2018 | HoxHunt promotes behavior-focused cybersecurity, lands €2.5 million in Series A funding | Cybersecurity has now become a top priority for businesses, given the troubling rise of threats over the past years. Keeping a company’s network and data secure isn’t the burden of the IT team alone anymore. It’s now a responsibility that a... |
| 16.10.2018 | Finnish startup HoxHunt secures €2.5 million for its cybersecurity gamification platform | HoxHunt, a startup from Helsinki that empowers humans to protect their employers from cyber attacks, has raised €2.5 million in a funding round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from existing investors Icebreaker and Risto Siilasmaa, ... |
| 16.10.2018 | HoxHunt Raises €2.5M in Funding | HoxHunt, a Helsinki, Finland-based provider of a cybersecurity gamification platform, raised €2.5m in funding.
The round was led by Dawn Capital, with participation from existing investors Icebreaker and Risto Siilasmaa, chairman of Nokia a... |
| - | Gamified platform Hoxhunt hunts down $40 million to enable employees to respond to cyberattacks | Cybercrime represents an ever-worsening pandemic costing global businesses trillions of dollars per year. Cybersecurity spending is projected to grow from $262.4 billion in 2022 to $458.9 billion in 2025, with tightening regulatory and insu... |
| - | Hoxhunt raises $40M to solve the hardest part of cybersecurity: people | Hoxhunt raises $40M to solve the hardest part of cybersecurity: people
May 2022 by Marc Jacob
Cybersecurity training platform Hoxhunt announced it raised $40 million in its Series B round led by New York-based Level Equity Management, along... |
