HootPhish 2024: Release Notes

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HootPhish is CyberHoot's Phishing Simulator; a positive, educational, hyper-realistic phishing test that provides better metrics, automation, and outcomes than any attack-based phishing test on the market.

11/12/24: Build 1098

  • Fixed issue with emails sometimes getting cut off in Outlook.
  • Updated HootPhish Challenge to include tips in results and replaced ‘unsafe’ with ‘suspicious’.

10/22/24: Build 1095

  • Fixed issue with HootPhish assignments preventing them from being assigned at the correct frequency.

10/15/24: Build 1094

  • Updated emails to use customer name instead of MSP name in the header.

10/08/24: Build 1091 & 1092

  • Updated ‘Unsafe’ labels in HootPhish to instead be ‘Suspicious’.
  • Added New HootPhish Challenge results page for any MSP seeking to promote CyberHoot’s HootPhish Challenge for their prospects and clients. HootPhish Challenge is a timed, gamified competition to measure how quickly someone can correctly label all the indicators of our Phishing Simulation Safe or Suspicious.
  • Added walkthrough of tips/explanations in phishing results and made a few small design changes across phishing and quizzes. 
  • Improved Entra ID and Google sync error alerts and reporting.
  • Updated restart user training to recalculate hoot scores clear attempt history.

09/24/24: Build 1089

  • Fixed issue with overall compliance counts.

09/17/24: Build 1086 – 1088

  • Fixed issue where overdue outstanding assignments were not included in Hoot Score. 
  • Improvements to backend processes to improve site performance.
  • Included additional line items on the MSP invoice to clearly identify any free trial users and internal customers.
  • Improved Entra ID Sync error messages.
  • Updated welcome email content.

09/10/2024: Build 1083

  • Added the ability to add explanations to phish indicators and have those display to the user in HootPhish results. 

09/03/2024: Build 1081

  • Updated welcome email language everywhere that was using our default set welcome language.

08/27/2024: Build 1080

  • Updated HootScore to take into account incomplete overdue assignments.
  • Fixed algorithm for calculating Hoot Rank.

08/13/2024: Build 1078

  • Hootphish design updates.

07/11/2024: Build 1073

  • Fixed issue where some HootPhish emails were displaying content horizontally instead of vertically.

05/24/2024: Build 1068

  • Improved speed/performance of compliance reporting scripts.

  • Updated toggling of the welcome email feature to reset welcome email sent on users if welcome email is enabled and training start date has not yet passed. 

05/22/2024: Build 1067

  • To reduce confusion in new users, the “My Assignments” link was removed from Welcome Emails.

04/30/24: Build 1063

  • Added Link to “Release Notes” and made accessible to Super-Admins.
  • Added User Status Page to view scoring status, training history, and user logs.
  • Added ability to update the Billing Email.
  • Added historical training compliance reports.
  • Logging Improvements: Added customer logs, user training history, and training history details.
  • My Assignments, Quizzes, and Simulations display updates and upgrades.

04/23/24: Build 1062

04/16/24: Build 1061

  • Created HootPhish Challenge Game designed to increase awareness and create competition in Phishing Detection and Deletion that is positively driven.
  • Additional performance improvements to the Admin User interface.

04/04/24: Build 1060

  • Performance Improvements: updated compliance scripts to run more quickly and with less overhead on system performance.
  • Added Customer Mass Actions (archive and unarchive) capability similar to User Mass actions to both CyberHoot’s API and the Admin dashboards.
  • Added 24 hour timer to “My Assignments” links to expire instead of deleting after being clicked. Updated feedback to clicked “My Assignment” links to reflect expiration.
  • Added welcome email alert to Dashboard schedule for better clarity on send date.

03/25/24: Build 1959

  • Upgrade internal binaries and components (general maintenance)

03/18/24: Build 1057 & 1058

  • Added MSP Aggregate Customer Compliance Report and ability to schedule them.
  • Fixed downloading Certificates of Completion failed condition.
  • Added MSP aggregate reports to API endpoints.
  • Performance improvements to administrator and end-user experiences platform-wide.
  • Added end-user acknowledgement popup when retaking phishing assignments.
  • Fixed duplicate user/customer creation checks in API.

03/12/24:  Build 1056

  • Fixed bug for special characters not displaying properly in user email notices.
  • Added new link variable to messaging and updated HootPhish instructions to use link variable for overview video.
  • Fixed display bug in phishing feedback tips.

Mass Update Users Feature

  • Added the ability to mass update users.

Welcome Email Improvement

  • Fixed welcome email to send to new users when welcome email is enabled and a race condition existed.

02/20/24: Build 1054

  • Added ability for admins to disable/reset other admins Two-Factor verification.
  • Improved display on mobile clients.

02/13/24: Build 1053

  • Fixed issue where CyberHoot logo was defaulted to in certificates of completion.
  • Fixed Entra ID sync issue where removed users were not being archived.
  • Implemented round 1 of performance improvements. More to come.

02/07/24: Build 1052

  • Renamed Azure to Entra ID
  • Fixed excel CSV file upload errors.
  • Found and removed all old 2-Phish and 3-Phish back-to-back simulations.
  • Added tips to phishing simulation results for end-user feedback.
  • Adopted international date standard for date variable across the platform.

01/30/24: Build 1051

  • Updated API to support more Partner integration needs.

01/25/24: Build 1050

  • Added support for webp logo uploads for branding.
  • Added customer create and customer type changes to MSP logs.

01/18/24: Build 1048

  • Released HootPhish stand-alone product to the Partner community.

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