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Social Engineering Attacks Abuse Workplace Collaboration Tools

Threat actors are increasingly abusing workplace collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams to launch social engineering attacks, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42. ...

New Extortion Brand Uses IT Impersonation to Breach Organizations

A newly surfaced extortion brand called “Pink” is using voice phishing and fake IT support calls to breach organizations, the Register reports. The threat actor may be a rebrand of prior ...

APWG Report: Social Media Phishing is Surging

Phishing scams surged across social media platforms during the first quarter of 2026, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

Cybersecurity Awareness Training for AI: Key Focus Areas

As employees increasingly rely on AI tools and AI agents in daily workflows, organizations are facing a new workforce security challenge: how to reduce risk without slowing productivity.

Americans Lost $900 Million to AI-Powered Scams Last Year

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that Americans lost just under $900 million to AI-powered scams in 2025, Malwarebytes reports. Total reported losses to scams last year ...

What AI Can’t Hide When It Writes a Phishing Email

Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran, and Shikhar Dalela

Your AI Agents Are Eager to Please And Easy to Exploit

An AI-driven system at a beverage manufacturer recently churned out several hundred thousand excess cans after misreading unfamiliar packaging. The system didn’t recognize the company’s ...

From 1% to 26%: How AIDA Orchestration Fixes the Remedial Training Gap

As we speak, bad actors are using AI agents to do their dirty work. Our own research tells us 85.8% of phishing attacks were AI-driven in the past 12 months. Agentic power is helping ...

Best AI Agent Security Tools for SMB and Enterprise in 2026

Introduction Enterprise AI agent adoption has created a massive blind spot: 83% of organizations have no visibility into what their AI agents are doing, while 86% lack visibility into ...

4 Hot Summer Travel Tips To Avoid Scams

When the weather starts to get warmer, it is a sign that summer time is around the corner. But just as the weather heats up and travel plans get booked, scammers capitalize on the season ...