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Recruitment-Themed Phishing Campaign Targets Enterprise Users

Researchers at Zimperium are tracking widespread phishing campaigns that use Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) attacks to trick users into handing over their enterprise credentials. The ...

New Phishing Kit Uses AI to Fully Automate Vishing Attacks

A new phishing kit is using generative AI to fully automate voice phishing (vishing) attacks, according to researchers at Group-IB. The phishing platform, called “Balonx,” includes a ...

Hacking the Healers: New KnowBe4 Whitepaper Highlights Record Security Breaches in Healthcare

When an organization has a security breach, it can cause significant financial, reputational and logistical damage. But in healthcare, where patient lives are on the line, the ...

Warning: Chameleon SEO Poisoning Spreads Phishing Pages

Cloaked SEO poisoning attacks surged by 40% in the second quarter of 2026, according to researchers at Fortra. This tactic, also known as “Chameleon SEO poisoning,” uses cloaked search ...

Attackers Abuse Enterprise Collaboration Tools to Avoid Detection

Threat actors’ abuse of enterprise collaboration tools increased fourfold over the past twelve months, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.

Protecting Every Conversation: Introducing KnowBe4 Defend for Google Workspace

Google Workspace powers more than 3 billion active users globally. From agile mid-market firms to global enterprise operations, Gmail and Google Workspace serve as the digital backbone ...

Warning: Replying to a “Wrong Number” Text Marks You as a Target for Scams

Attackers are using “wrong-number” texts to identify potential targets for scams, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. These texts appear to be harmless messages meant for another ...

The .vu Surge: How Threat Actors Are Exploiting Vanuatu's Domain Extension

Lead Analysts: Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran, Jeewan Singh Jalal, Karthikeyan Dharmaraj and Sripathi Kumar

New Phishing Kit Gives Threat Actors Live View Into Attacks

A new phishing platform called “JWR” gives attackers real-time control over social engineering attacks, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The kit livestreams the phishing page to ...