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15 stories taggedbusiness email compromise.
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 email 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.
German Police Shut Down Kratos Phishing Network, But Experts Say the Pause Will Be Brief
Authorities seized more than 200 servers and arrested a developer in Indonesia. Security researchers say the 1,800 customers who used the service are already shopping for a replacement.
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.
Fake Font Files Are Hiding Malware That Steals Passwords and Takes Over Windows PCs
A phishing campaign spotted since late March disguises malicious code as font files and runs it entirely in memory, making it nearly invisible to standard antivirus tools. FedEx and other familiar brands are being impersonated to get victims to open the door.
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.
Behavioral AI vs. modern email attacks: what a vendor webinar actually promises
A live session pitches behavioral analysis as the answer to phishing, BEC and account takeover. Here's what that means in plain English, and where the hard parts still sit.
New Phishing Kit 'ARToken' Exposes Full Microsoft 365 Takeover Playbook
Cisco Talos researchers found more than 80 hidden commands inside a phishing service tied to the EvilTokens platform — including tools to steal Microsoft 365 logins, read mailboxes, and quietly hide their tracks.
BEC Isn't an Email Problem. It's a Supply Chain.
Underground forums show Business Email Compromise as a multi-stage operation — account access, target research, and mules — not a clever phishing lure.