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A corporate boardroom with executives focused on flashy AI security headlines on a screen, while in the background unnoticed subtle AI processes quietly disrupt
AI Security

The AI Cyber Threat Your Board Is Ignoring While Chasing Headlines

Forget the lab escapes. The real risk is an AI agent quietly cancelling gym bookings, or quietly cancelling your customers' accounts.

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An email inbox on a computer screen with a message containing ASCII characters arranged in a pattern, some security filter indicators visible, and a phone camer
Identity & Access

The QR Code Hiding in Plain Text: This Week's Sneakiest Phishing Trick

Attackers built scannable QR codes out of typed characters to slip past image-blocking filters, while a trusted developer tool shipped credential-stealing code.

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Multiple computer workstations in an office setting with Microsoft 365 login screens visible on monitors, warning dialogs overlaying the screens, world map show
Identity & Access

Phishing kit 'BigBear' walked past Microsoft 365 logins at 258 companies

Researchers at CloudSEK found the rented service scooped up more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials and 4,148 session cookies from victims in 40 countries.

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A laptop screen displaying a fake video interview interface with a professional background, while a smartphone nearby shows cryptocurrency wallet warnings
Threat Intelligence

Fake Job Interviews Are Draining Bank Accounts. Here Is How the Scam Works.

Criminals posing as recruiters on LinkedIn and Indeed are tricking jobseekers into downloading malware disguised as interview software. One person lost £18,000 in cryptocurrency overnight.

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A Trezor hardware wallet sitting on a desk next to documents showing customer data exposure notifications and shipping records
Breaches

Trezor Customers Caught in a Second Wave of ShipMonk Data Leak

The crypto hardware wallet maker says 67,000 more U.S. buyers had their names, addresses and phone numbers exposed through its old shipping partner. The wallets themselves are unaffected.

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Threat Intelligence

ShinyHunters Claimed It Broke Into ReliaQuest. The Reality Is More Complicated.

A cybersecurity company's own employee fell for a fake login page, handing criminals limited access. What happened next is actually a story about defences holding.

3 min read
An email client inbox with messages displayed, some containing hidden Unicode characters visible only in raw code view on a split-screen terminal
Threat Intelligence

Phishing gang hides invisible characters inside emails to slip past filters

Microsoft says attackers are splitting bait words like 'funding' with unprintable Unicode tags so security scanners never see them.

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An office worker at a desk during a phone call, a fake login page displayed on their monitor screen, with a hand reaching toward the keyboard about to enter cre
Threat Intelligence

The Fake IT Call and the Click That Opens the Door

Attackers are skipping the smash-and-grab, choosing polite phone calls, spoofed login pages and poisoned software guides to walk in through the front door.

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A global map projection showing phishing attack origins and target locations as glowing lines and nodes, with North American targets highlighted in bright red,
Threat Intelligence

US Now Top Target in Global Phishing Campaign That Hijacks Remote Access Tools

A phishing operation first spotted using fake Canadian tax notices has spread to 46 countries, with nearly half of all sightings hitting American inboxes.

3 min read
A conference stage presentation setup with a podium facing rows of security professionals, demonstrating attack methodologies with code and terminal windows vis
AI Security

A Former Internet Godfather Explains How AI Gives Criminals a Head Start

Brett Johnson built some of the first organised online crime networks. Now he's showing security conferences exactly how fast AI lets attackers work, and why defenders are still catching up.

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An employee's computer screen showing a Microsoft Teams call interface with a fake IT support representative, while the attacker gains remote desktop access sho
Identity & Access

Criminals Pose as IT Support Inside Microsoft Teams to Take Over Company Networks

A hacking campaign called Spring Ring tricked more than 150 employees at ten-plus companies into handing over remote control of their computers, all through a fake Teams call from a fake help desk.

4 min read
A European government office desk with a smartphone displaying encrypted messaging apps, surrounded by classified document folders and a computer showing securi
Threat Intelligence

Russian Hackers Are Phishing EU Officials on WhatsApp and Signal

Eight serious attacks on European government staff have exposed a gap no one planned for: officials trusting consumer messaging apps with sensitive business.

4 min read
A freelance work platform office with network security analysts reviewing fake account profiles and malicious Excel attachment samples, malware analysis tools r
Threat Intelligence

Russian man charged with infecting 80,000 freelancers through fake Excel attachments

Searzhudin Aktulaev allegedly used 255 fake accounts on a freelance work platform to spread TVRAT and DarkVNC remote-control malware between 2016 and 2017.

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Multiple computer workstations in a network showing real-time system monitoring dashboards, with one screen displaying Adobe file icons being deployed across co
Threat Intelligence

Phishing crews hijacked a legitimate IT tool to take over more than 450 computers

Attackers pushed fake Adobe files that quietly enrolled victim PCs into Faronics Deploy, then used it to install ScreenConnect for hands-on remote control.

3 min read
An email client open with a message displayed, invisible text overlay illustrated through technical visualization, an AI summarization panel showing manipulated
AI Security

Hidden Text in Emails Can Trick AI Assistants Into Showing You Fake Numbers

Researchers planted invisible instructions inside ordinary emails and watched an AI summariser rewrite invoice amounts and meeting dates without any warning to the reader.

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