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What is Quishing? Ultimate QR Code Phishing Prevention Guide

How quishing is being used in attacks, what these threats look like in the wild and best practices for avoiding them.

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What Actually Drives Cybersecurity Behavior Change? According to Real Hoxhunt Data

How do you achieve cybersecurity behavior change? A breakdown of how science-based training transforms awareness into real-world risk reduction.

Creating a Company Culture for Security: What Actually Works (According to 3M+ Hoxhunt Users)

Your essential guide to building a robust security culture. How to implement effective training, policies, and recognition systems to mitigate human cyber risk.

10 Essential Security Awareness Training Topics (And How We Make Them Stick)

The essential security awareness topics that truly change employee behavior and how Hoxhunt blends behavioral science, real-world simulations, and adaptive learning to boost engagement.

How to Achieve 90%+ Reporting and Completion Rates (Without Forcing Anyone)

With Hoxhunt, on average more than 60% of employees are engaged in the training after just one year. ‍But some organizations manage to push past 85%, even into the 90s. What's their secret?

How Can Generative AI Be Used in Cybersecurity Training?

How generative AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity training with adaptive phishing simulations, personalized learning experiences, and real-time threat response.

5 Best Cybersecurity Solutions for Training Employees (2025)

Shopping around for the best cybersecurity training solutions but not sure where to start? Here's what 6,000+ real customer reviews are saying.

Creating a Company Culture for Security: What Actually Works (According to 3M+ Hoxhunt Users)

Your essential guide to building a robust security culture. How to implement effective training, policies, and recognition systems to mitigate human cyber risk.

10 Essential Security Awareness Training Topics (And How We Make Them Stick)

The essential security awareness topics that truly change employee behavior and how Hoxhunt blends behavioral science, real-world simulations, and adaptive learning to boost engagement.

How to Achieve 90%+ Reporting and Completion Rates (Without Forcing Anyone)

With Hoxhunt, on average more than 60% of employees are engaged in the training after just one year. ‍But some organizations manage to push past 85%, even into the 90s. What's their secret?

How Can Generative AI Be Used in Cybersecurity Training?

How generative AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity training with adaptive phishing simulations, personalized learning experiences, and real-time threat response.

5 Best Cybersecurity Solutions for Training Employees (2025)

Shopping around for the best cybersecurity training solutions but not sure where to start? Here's what 6,000+ real customer reviews are saying.

9 Email Security Best Practices (Ultimate Guide 2025)

This playbook will guide you through the essential email security best practices you need to know to educate employees, mitigate risks, and protect your organization.

Why Finance and IT should work together to mitigate security risk

Traditionally, finance has been responsible for reducing business risk. CFOs need to cooperate with IT leadership to mitigate risk from cyber attacks.

Are smartphones a cyber threat for your company?

Smartphones could be a cyber threat for your company for several reasons. Learn what you should teach them about safe smartphone habits to prevent a breach.

Get Leadership Support To Invest in a Phishing Training Program

Build a winning business case to gain leadership support so that you can invest in people-first phishing training. Learn now.

How human error impacts human risk in cybersecurity?

Understanding how and why people make errors is the first step to planning on how to address and eliminate human risk. Learn more about human risk.

The CISO’s Russian Roulette: Not Training Remote Employees

Failing to provide security training to remote employees can leave your company vunerable to cyberattacks that have been increasing recently.

What Actually Drives Cybersecurity Behavior Change? According to Real Hoxhunt Data

How do you achieve cybersecurity behavior change? A breakdown of how science-based training transforms awareness into real-world risk reduction.

How Behavior-Based Cyber Security Training Works

Learn how behavior-based cyber security training drives lasting employee behavior change. A breakdown of the key components, benefits, and why it’s essential for building a strong security culture.

Hoxhunt vs Competitors: Head-to-Head Comparison (Based on 6,000+ Reviews)

Discover how Hoxhunt outperforms competitors in cybersecurity training. Based on real reviews, compare Hoxhunt's features, quality, and effectiveness to leading alternatives.

What is a Human Firewall? Examples, Strategies + Training Tips

Empower your team to be a human firewall. Discover how training, vigilance, and smart habits protect against cyber threats.

How Yu-kai Chou's Gamification Framework Revolutionized Security Awareness Training

Here's how integrating Yu-kai Chou's Octalysis Gamification and Behavioral Design Framework into cybersecurity training can dramatically improve user engagement and resilience.

Attack Simulation Training: Hoxhunt vs Microsoft Defender

Wondering which attack simulation training is best for your team? Get a full breakdown of Hoxhunt vs. Microsoft Defender to make an informed decision.

Right to left override attacks are relics no more

Right-to-Left overrides (RTLO) take advantage of a special Unicode character [U+202e], which flips characters for languages like Arabic read right to left.

New gift card phishing attacks

Gift card phishing attacks use an old trick that fell by the wayside with the rise of cryptocurrency phishing attacks. It's a trick, never a treat.

New cryptocurrency phishing attacks

As celebrities attract stalkers, so too are cryptocurrencies attracting cybercriminals. Beware of these new cryptocurrency phishing attacks!

Domain registration phishing attack

The domain registration phishing attack has been banging around the internet for a while, but we've seen it make a big comeback lately.

New tax phishing attack: CP-2100 Notice Campaign

Death. Taxes. And phishing attacks. We're monitoring a new tax phishing attack based on the IRS CP 2100 notice campaign claiming missing TINs.

Top 5 things lurking behind forbidden phishing links

Today we’ll take a sneak peek at the top 5 things lurking behind forbidden phishing links, so your curiosity doesn’t get the best of you!

How Browser Features Easily Become Security Flaws

We train our users to always hover over links in emails and to validate the domain where the links points to. This can’t be trusted if you are using Microsoft Edge to view your emails in Office 365.

Social Engineering Training Explained (Essential Guide)

Your ultimate guide to the process behind social engineering training and all of the tips and know-how you need to ensure your training successfully changes behavior.

Advertisers Beware—How Scammers Are Getting Into Your Ad Accounts

From Spear-Phishing, to Credential Harvesting, To Possible Ad Fraud. Keep Reading To Find Out How This Story Unfolded and How You Can Avoid Getting Caught.

Social engineers are targeting social media accounts

We're seeing an uptick in social engineers targeting social media accounts

The good, the bad, and the ugly about browser fingerprinting

Now that cookies are on their way out, a much sneakier way of identifying you is on its way in.

This '90s internet throwback is the latest hacking trend

Years later, pop-ups are back, this time serving a different purpose... stealing your info.

How to prevent crypto wallet phishing

The more digital money you make, the more digital problems you get. Here's some tips to keep your crypto wallet safe.