Nearly 13,500 education, healthcare, manufacturing, and finance organizations around the world, particularly in North America, Europe, and Asia, have been subjected to a sweeping phishing campaign exploiting the widely used educational platform Google Classroom earlier this month, GBHackers News reports.
English-speaking cybercriminals skilled in social engineering are increasingly sought after in underground forums, signaling a troubling rise in targeted attacks, The Register reports.
HackRead reports that attacks involving the impersonation of CoinMarketCap journalists have been launched against cryptocurrency executives as part of a new spear-phishing campaign.
Malicious actors have been increasingly hijacking software-as-a-service accounts via virtual private server exploitation to facilitate phishing attacks that evade IP reputation checks and geolocation defenses, SiliconANGLE reports.
Artificial intelligence agents could be deceived into executing malicious tasks through the new PromptFix attack technique, a ClickFix variant that involves prompt injections, reports Infosecurity Magazine.
