As social engineering expands past just email to include text messages, chat apps, social platforms, and live video calls, traditional point solutions are struggling to keep up. In this segment, Bobby Ford explains how AI-powered impersonation and deepfake-enabled campaigns are exposing critical gaps in legacy defenses, and why organizations must e...
Impersonation attacks are accelerating across the workforce, targeting critical moments like onboarding, account recovery, and high-risk actions where identity is often assumed rather than verified. As attackers exploit gaps in how and when identity checks occur, traditional approaches are struggling to keep up. This conversation explores what’s dr...
AI hasn’t just evolved cyberattacks—it has reset the threat curve entirely. New research shows that even “solved” problems like phishing and business email compromise are immature and dangerous again, with attackers using AI and autonomous agents to launch hyper-personalized, multi-channel attacks at scale. This session explores what Phishing 3.0 r...
Activity of the Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service platform has returned to normal levels weeks after being taken down in a global law enforcement operation led by Microsoft earlier this month, reports BleepingComputer.
Threat actors who weaponized the AI cloud-hosting service Railway were able to compromise the Microsoft cloud accounts of 344 organizations, including government, healthcare, finance, and construction entities, around the world as part of an AI-powered phishing campaign that has been underway since earlier this month, CyberScoop reports.
Numerous phishing scams involving tax-related lures have been launched by threat actors to deploy malware and credential-stealing payloads before the tax season ends on Apr. 15, The Hacker News reports.
In December, Fortra Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE) released a major report exposing Scripted Sparrow, one of the most active Business Email Compromise (BEC) collectives operating today. The group sends an estimated 6 million highly targeted scam emails each month, impersonating executive coaching firms and leveraging spoofed reply chains,...
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