[New Threat Trend Data] When Bad Actors Use Reality Against Us

“Is it real?” has become a common question across our digital lives thanks to the rise of AI-generated content.

Attackers Abuse Legitimate Infrastructure to Distribute Phishing Emails

Researchers at Cisco Talos are tracking a significant increase in phishing campaigns that abuse legitimate platforms. Attackers abused more than 25 legitimate services over the past year, ...

Warning: Attackers Are Using Calendar Invite Files to Evade Security Filters

Phishing attacks are increasingly using legitimate calendar invites to bypass security filters, according to researchers at Netcraft. Attackers send ICS calendar invite files that plant ...

Business-Themed Phishing Lures Deliver RMM Tools

Microsoft is tracking phishing campaigns that use various lures to deliver MSP360, a legitimate RMM tool that attackers are abusing to gain a foothold on compromised systems.

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

What Microsoft’s Latest Email Benchmark Proves About Defense-in-Depth

Let’s face it: inertia is often the most common yet most dangerous adversary when it comes to acquiring new technology, especially in cybersecurity.

Are Your AI Assistants the Next Attack Surface?

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

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 ...

Phishing Emails Use New Technique to Bypass Microsoft 365 Security Filters

Threat actors are using phishing emails with blank SMTP sender fields to bypass Microsoft 365 security filters, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online uses ...

Direct Send: How Attackers Weaponize Your Infrastructure Against You

Lead Analysts: Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran, Jeewan Singh Jalal