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Opinion and analysis on the latest developments in artificial intelligence as they relate to cybersecurity and how stay protected.

Report: Ransomware Attacks Involving Data Theft Are Surging

Ransomware attacks involving data theft have surged by 275% in 2026, according to a new report from Zscaler. Attackers exfiltrated more than 896.2 terabytes of data from victim ...

The Rise of Legitimate-Service Phishing: 1 in 10 Phishing Emails Now Comes From a Platform You Trust

Lead Analysts: Karthikeyan D, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran, Jeewan Singh Jalal

Remove the Language Barrier from Your Training Program’s Global Rollout

At any given moment, there’s an employee somewhere in the world tuning out of a phishing training module that was translated from another language. Every word is rendered correctly, yet ...

Report: Social Engineering Attacks Are Increasingly Using Audio and Video Deepfakes

41% of CISOs said an audio deepfake targeted their organization within the last 12 months, according to a new survey by Gartner. Additionally, 36% of respondents said employees were ...

Govern Claude AI with KnowBe4’s Agent Risk Manager

Agent Risk Manager, KnowBe4’s AI agent security product in the KnowBe4 Platform, integrates with the Claude Compliance API to help organizations monitor Claude activity and detect risks ...

AI-Generated Phishing Pages Are Impersonating Antivirus Services

Scammers are using AI to generate phishing pages that impersonate antivirus products, according to Malwarebytes.

Are Your AI Assistants the Next Attack Surface?

Lead Analysts: Shikhar Dalela, Maddhav Grandy and Jeewan Singh Jalal

AI-Assisted Phishing Campaign Sent Over A Million Personalized Emails

Researchers at Microsoft are tracking an AI-assisted phishing campaign that sent over a million emails attempting to conduct payment diversion scams.

Millions of Phishing Emails Use ASCII Smuggling to Bypass Security Filters

A massive phishing campaign is using invisible Unicode tag characters to evade security filters, according to researchers at Microsoft. This technique, known as “ASCII smuggling,” has ...

Alert: AI is Accelerating Targeted Social Engineering Attacks

AI tools are drastically improving the speed of the reconnaissance stage of targeted social engineering attacks, according to researchers at ESET. Attackers can use these tools to trawl ...