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Crime or Career? What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime Recruitment

"Someone online shows a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls you in. Everyone's doing it. It feels like skill, not crime." A young person from South Africa, ...

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #41 [Heads Up] Attackers Trick Your Employees to Share Fake Calendar Invites

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #40 Why Microsoft’s Latest Defense-in-Depth Email Benchmark Is So Surprising

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #39 [AI-Alert] Are Your New AI Assistants Your Next Attack Surface?

FBI Alert: Phishing Attacks Are Impersonating Law Enforcement

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert warning that widespread fraud campaigns are impersonating law enforcement or government officials to trick users into ...

Sophisticated Phishing Operation Continues to Thrive Following FBI Takedown

China-based cybercriminals are using a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service platform called the “Outsider Phishing Kit” to launch massive phishing campaigns around the world, according to ...

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #38 Attackers Use Passkey-Themed Phishing to Breach Cloud Environments

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 ...

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #37 [Bypassing the Gatekeepers] Global Phishing Turns Google into a Trust Proxy