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Perry Carpenter KB4-CON 2026 Q&A: Deepfakes & Deception

In just a couple years, deepfakes have gone from cartoonishly silly and largely academic exercises to sophisticated audio and video creations with the potential to trick just about anyone ...

Free Gift Fallacy: How Attackers Harvest Credit Cards via Fake Surveys

Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Dilsha Dines, Karthikeyan Dharmaraj

When Global Conflict Becomes a Cyber Weapon: How Iran Tensions and Other Stressful Events Fuel Social Engineering Attacks

When geopolitical tensions rise, whether due to conflicts like the current one involving Iran or other global flashpoints, many organizations focus on physical security, supply chains, or ...

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #21 [Heads Up] GitHub Breach Shows Developer Tools Are Social Engineering Targets

Alert: Extortion Groups Are Using Phishing Kits to Automate Their Attacks

Researchers at Push Security have analyzed a phishing platform used by organized criminal threat actors like ShinyHunters and BlackFile, finding more than 400 domains linked to attacks ...

Beyond the Chatbot: Why Your AI Agents are Your Newest (and Most Vulnerable) Colleagues

The era of "typing into a box" is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to ...

Report: Adversarial Use of AI is Evolving

Threat actors are increasingly augmenting their attacks with AI tools, according to researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). For the first time, GTIG observed a threat ...

AI Agent Governance Part 1 - Beyond the Chatbot: Mastering AI Agent Governance

In 2024, we talked to AI. In 2026, AI is talking to our systems, our customers, and increasingly, acting on our behalf. With AI agents, we are moving AI from a tool to an actor, from ...

Report: The Tycoon 2FA Phishing Kit Has Evolved

The Tycoon 2FA phishing-as-a-service platform is now using OAuth device code phishing to compromise devices that are protected by multifactor authentication, according to eSentire’s ...

KnowBe4 CEO Bryan Palma Q&A From KB4-CON 2026

By Bree Fowler, contributor Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the digital threat landscape and how security professionals fight back against the cybercriminals that use ...