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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 ...

Warning: “Slop Squatting” Directs AI Users to Phishing Pages

Threat actors are increasingly leveraging AI hallucinations to plant phishing links and other malicious content in AI output, IEEE Spectrum reports. Large language models (LLMs) sometimes ...

Survey: Companies Cite Phishing as their Top AI-Enabled Fraud Concern

A recent survey from Experian found that 60% of companies report fraud losses that are “somewhat or significantly higher” than in previous years, with a majority of respondents citing ...

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 ...

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: Malicious AI Tools Are Spreading in the Criminal Underground

Criminals are now selling malicious AI tools for use in cyberattacks, according to researchers at Trellix. These tools dramatically lower the barrier for unskilled crooks to launch ...

Report: AI Chatbots Are More Effective at Building Trust Than Human Scammers

A study has found that AI chatbots can be more effective at social engineering than human scammers, WIRED reports. The researchers looked at a form of romance scam commonly known as “pig ...

Human Error Remains at the Core of AI-Enabled Social Engineering

AI is making social engineering attacks significantly more effective, according to a new report from cyber insurance firm Resilience. These attacks were behind more than 85% of losses in ...