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BEC Keeps Winning Because It Looks Exactly Like Normal Work
The phishing payload is gone. The pretext is the payload now, and your SEG was never built for that.

Russia's Signal Phishing Now Targets the Backup Recovery Key — and the Key Doesn't Expire
An FBI/CISA update says GRU-linked operators are coaxing victims into surrendering their Signal Backup Recovery Key, which yields full message history and durable account access.

Hotel Front Desks Hit by Photo-ZIP Phishing Dropping Node.js Implant
Microsoft flags an unattributed campaign active since April 2026 against hospitality targets in Europe and Asia.

The Week in Cheap Crime: Stale Creds, Trusted Apps, and Phishing Through the Front Door
Not elite. Not cinematic. Just effective — and that's the problem.

Email security teams are buried in alerts. Behavioral AI vendors say they have an answer.
Phishing, BEC and account takeover noise keeps SOCs busy. A new webinar pitches behavioral detection as the way to cut through it.

INTERPOL Flags Sharp Rise in Phishing, Ransomware and AI Scams Across Asia-Pacific
A new INTERPOL assessment maps a region where cybercrime is outpacing defensive capacity, with phishing leading the volume charts and ransomware crews exploiting the gap.

Device Code Phishing Is Eating MFA. Behavioral Detection Is the Backstop.
Token theft and consent-grant abuse sidestep the second factor entirely. Defenders are leaning on anomaly detection because the login looks legitimate.

Browser Add-Ons, AI Chat Links and In-Memory macOS Attacks: A Week the Internet Worked As Designed
Shady extensions, weaponised Claude conversations, fileless macOS intrusions and cloud agents turned into shells dominated the criminal feeds this week.

ScarCruft Dresses Up NarwhalRAT in a Microsoft Account Security Alert
APT37's spear-phish leans on the oldest trick in the identity playbook: tell the user their account is at risk, then hand them the payload.

Contagious Interview Pivots to Dev-Review Lures in Two Fresh Campaigns
The North Korea-linked cluster is back with phishing pretexts aimed at developers — recruiter pitches and code-review requests that drop malware on engineers' workstations.

Behavioral AI Pitched as Triage Layer for Phishing and ATO Floods
A vendor webinar argues that pattern-learning models can cut investigation time on BEC and account takeover incidents. The harder question: what does that mean for breach-notification timelines?

FBI and Google Tear Down 'Outsider Enterprise' Phishing Platform Behind $1.9 Billion in Losses
Nine thousand phishing sites. Nearly four million stolen credit cards. One takedown.

Facebook Impersonation Scams Sweep MENA, Pushing Fake Subsidies and 'Free Data' Lures
Group-IB ties the campaign to a broader fraud network using cloned political figures, fake government programs and browser-push alerts to harvest credentials and payment data.

Outsider Enterprise: the phishing-as-a-service mill that wasn't really 'AI-powered'
FBI, Google and Black Lotus Labs took down a Chinese PhaaS operation running close to a million phishing URLs. The 'AI' part is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Sniper Dz Phishing-as-a-Service Goes Dark After INTERPOL Sweep Nets 201 Arrests
Operation Ramz dismantled a decade-old PhaaS storefront and pulled in its alleged operator, 'Guedz', across 13 MENA jurisdictions.