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TurboTax SMS Scam

It is tax season in the United States and that means plenty of tax scams. I recently received these SMS messages.

Phishing Simulation: How It Works to Reduce Risk

Phishing isn’t just increasing. It’s outpacing the way many organizations test for it. Attacks have surged 400% year over year, and corporate users are now more likely to be targeted by ...

How to Identify a Phishing Website

Our increasing dependence on the internet and, specifically, email for business and personal communication has produced the perfect environment for cybercriminals to launch phishing ...

How Risky is Sending a Sensitive Work Email to the Wrong Person?

Sending a work email to the wrong person – it’s something all of us have done at least once in our working lives. For some people, it’s a regular occurrence. But just how risky is it?

The Case for Behavioral AI in Legal Email Security

For legal organizations, the integrity of communication isn't just a business requirement, it’s a foundational pillar of the profession. Whether it’s a sensitive case strategy, a ...

Common Facebook Scam Method

A friend posted this on Facebook and it came up on my feed.

The Rise of Kratos: How the New Phishing-as-a-Service Kit Industrializes Cybercrime

Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Anand Bodke By the end of 2026, over 90% of all credential compromise attacks are estimated to be enabled by modular ...

Nation-State Threat Actors Incorporate AI to Streamline Attacks

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warn that nation-state threat actors have adopted Gemini and other AI tools as essential components of their operations. The ...

Google Reports On Adversarial Use of AI in Late 2025

Google Threat Intelligence Group recently released its latest report, “GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Distillation, Experimentation, and (Continued) Integration of AI for Adversarial Us,” on how ...