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Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.

Iranian APT Launches AI-Assisted Spear Phishing Attacks

The Iran-linked threat actor APT42 is using AI-assisted phishing attacks to target U.S. organizations amidst the Iran-US war, according to researchers at DarkAtlas.

Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams

A survey from Trustmi found that most employees believe they’d be able to spot a social engineering attack, but those same employees still rely primarily on outdated guidance to spot red ...

The Talent Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime

"Someone online shows them a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls them in. Everyone's doing it. It feels like skill, not crime."

Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever

AI agents offer unprecedented capabilities, speed, automation, deep context, and hyper-personalization, that will transform how we work. However, these same capabilities make AI agents ...

Why You Can’t Arrest Your Way Out of Youth Cybercrime

Two days at INTERPOL on youth cybercrime, why offender prevention is real police work and why it has to out-recruit rather than out-threaten.

[FREE RESOURCE KIT] Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kit 2026 Now Available

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Equip your team with the intel they need to stay ahead of global threat actors and threats such as social engineering and AI deepfakes.

AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It.

This year National Social Engineering Day falls on Aug. 6. This day is designed to give us an opportunity to remind people that cybercriminals do not always need sophisticated malware, an ...

Apple Warns Users to be Wary of Unsolicited FaceTime Calls

Apple is warning users to be wary of unsolicited FaceTime calls amidst a wave of scams impersonating Apple Support, Malwarebytes reports. The scammers inform the user that there’s been ...

New Phishing Kits Use Open-Source Tools to Bypass MFA

Researchers at Lexfo are tracking three sophisticated phishing kits that were built using open-source components, primarily based on the publicly available adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) ...

Inside the OS-Aware Phishing Kit Profiling Your Device

Lead Analysts: Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Jeewan Singh Jalal Most phishing attacks pick a target and commit to a tactic. This one picks the tactic based on the target, which happens ...