Microsoft Help Desk Phishing Attempt
I received this email the other day to my personal email account. It is a “Security Alert” from “Microsoft Helpdesk.” Oh, my!
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Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
I received this email the other day to my personal email account. It is a “Security Alert” from “Microsoft Helpdesk.” Oh, my!
A phishing campaign is targeting LastPass users with phony notifications informing users that someone has notified the company of the user’s death and is trying to gain access to their ...
A phishing campaign is impersonating Google Careers to target job seekers, according to researchers at Sublime Security.
A phishing campaign is impersonating LastPass and Bitwarden with phony breach notifications, BleepingComputer reports.
Threat actors are abusing X’s generative AI bot Grok to spread phishing links, according to researchers at ESET. The attackers achieve this by tricking Grok into thinking it’s answering a ...
Cybernews warns that threat actors will likely take advantage of the recent AWS outage to launch phishing attacks against affected users.
Phishing was the initial access vector for 60% of cyberattacks across Europe between July 2024 and June 2025, according to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).
Employees who multitask are significantly more vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to a study from the University at Albany published in the European Journal of Information Systems.
Microsoft warns that a recent phishing campaign used AI technology to obfuscate its payload and evade security filters.
A new report has found that nearly 40% of security leaders believe their organizations are least prepared for phishing and other social engineering attacks, Help Net Security reports.
A survey by Gartner found that 62% of organizations have been hit by a deepfake attack in the past twelve months, Infosecurity Magazine reports.
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Attackers are abusing AI-powered development platforms like Lovable, Netlify and Vercel to create and host captcha challenge websites as part of phishing campaigns, according to ...
Hackread reports that attackers are abusing Google’s AppSheet platform to send phishing emails.
AI-assisted phishing attacks pose a significant and increasing threat to organizations, according to Matt Weidman, partner and vice president of Commercial Property & Casualty at ...
AI-powered social engineering attacks are significantly more successful than traditional attacks, according to a new report from cyber risk management firm Resilience.
Attackers are abusing iCloud Calendar invites to send phishing messages that pose as PayPal notifications, BleepingComputer reports. Since the messages are sent from Apple’s ...
The use of “shadow AI” is an increasing security risk within organizations, according to a new report from Netskope.
The State of California’s Franchise Tax Board (FTB) has warned of an ongoing SMS phishing (smishing) campaign targeting residents, Malwarebytes reports.
I occasionally get human risk management (HRM) administrators asking me to help them with ideas of “contests” to better educate their end-users.
