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EvilTokens: the phishing kit that turned a smart-TV login trick into a mass account raid
Microsoft says a subscription phishing service broke into more than 12,000 mailboxes by abusing the sign-in flow built for printers and conference room screens.
The Longitude Problem: Why Ground Truth Beats Guesswork in the AI Age
For centuries, sailors died because they could estimate their position but not confirm it. Attackers targeting your company today face the same gap, and your best defence is the same one that finally solved navigation.
UK Homebuyers Lose Hundreds of Thousands to 'Friday Afternoon' Email Fraud
Criminals hijack email chains between buyers, solicitors and estate agents to redirect house-purchase deposits into fake bank accounts. One victim lost £300,000.
Interpol's Operation Jackal IV: 58 arrests target West African fraud networks and Black Axe
A 22-country police push identified 263 suspects tied to romance, investment and business email scams, with South African authorities seizing $2.67 million from a syndicate that targeted retirees.
A Local Housing Authority Lost $1 Million to Email Fraud. Here Is What It Did Next.
A cybersecurity consultant's account of how a small government agency rebuilt its defences after criminals silently rerouted a wire transfer offers a practical road map for the thousands of local bodies running on skeleton IT crews.
Phishing Has a New Problem: The Attacker Isn't Human Anymore
Email defences built for bad links and bad attachments are struggling as AI agents start writing, sending, and even reading the mail on both sides.
Interpol's Global Payment Network Stopped a $6.6 Million Fraud Transfer. Here's How It Works.
A worldwide system linking police forces and banks in 196 countries is getting faster at freezing stolen money before criminals can move it across borders.
Criminals Are Hijacking Cargo Trucks With Laptops, Not Crowbars
Cargo theft powered by hacking has surged more than 1,500 percent since 2021. The freight industry's patchwork of old systems and thin security budgets has made it an easy mark, and the criminals running these operations are sophisticated enough to move stolen truckloads across borders.
AegisAI Raises $36 Million to Fight AI-Generated Phishing Emails
A startup built by former Google security engineers says criminals now use artificial intelligence to craft personalised fake emails at scale. Its answer is an AI system that reads those emails back.
After Tycoon2FA Was Shut Down, Phishing Criminals Went Looking for New Tricks
Microsoft's Q2 2026 email threat report shows that busting a major phishing-for-hire service slashed attack volume by 92%, but criminals quickly pivoted to Microsoft Teams chats and automated campaigns that hit tens of thousands of organisations in hours.
What is social engineering? A plain-English guide
Social engineering is the art of manipulating people, not machines, to hand over access, money, or data. Here is how it works and how to stop it.
StrongestLayer Raises $4.1 Million to Build Email Security That Reasons, Not Just Recognises
The San Francisco startup says a third of today's email attacks slip past tools that only look for patterns they have seen before. Its new funding backs a different approach: software that judges intent.
Europe's Cyber Threat Picture Looks Nothing Like America's. The Numbers Prove It.
Business email scams hit 81% of reported incidents in Germany and the Benelux region. Europe absorbs nearly half of all global denial-of-service attacks. A new wave of ransomware gangs is arriving. The regulatory rulebook is entirely different, too.
Spanish police dismantle €140 million fraud ring that drained company bank accounts
Four arrests across Spain, Portugal and Panama close down a laundering network that pushed nearly €100 million through 800 bank accounts, much of it stolen through fake CEO emails.
Interpol Sweep Nets 5,811 Fraud Arrests and $293 Million Across 97 Countries
Operation First Light 2026 identified more than 142,000 victims of romance, investment and business email scams between January and April.