Check Point Exposure Management researchers uncovered a large, multi-region phishing infrastructure that conceals active campaigns behind domains that look inactive. Root domains return blank or generic "Not Found" pages, while the phishing content is served only through concealed regional paths (for example /it, /de, /pa) and under speci…
Campaigns that impersonate popular AI brands, notably Claude and ChatGPT, are on the rise. They typically use ClickFix-like social engineering tactics to target unsuspecting enterprise employees, with developers described as being at particular risk. The article, available only as a short excerpt, gives no details on payloads, infrastruct…
Researchers infiltrated a large-scale tech support scam operation that impersonates Microsoft. The operation relies on a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization. It also abuses thousands of Cloudflare links to route victims to scam content. The article snippet gives no victim counts, losses or technical i…
Check Point Exposure Management researchers identified a campaign that mass-produces fraudulent customer support PDFs and posts impersonating more than 20 travel brands, including airlines, travel agencies and transportation companies. The documents are uploaded to trusted university, government and commercial websites through public uplo…
Huntress researchers identified a fake page impersonating the WatchGuard download portal that harvested VPN server addresses, usernames and passwords before offering the legitimate Mobile VPN with SSL installer. The investigation began after suspicious activity involving an administrator at a managed service provider (MSP), who found the …
A modular phishing campaign targets YouTube creators with personalized sponsorship offers from fake brand representatives. One variant impersonates Hollyland, a maker of wireless video transmission equipment, and also Nike and Spotify. Victims are led through a convincing fake collaboration platform to a bogus "Sign in with Google" page t…
Check Point Research's Q3 2026 Brand Phishing Report finds Microsoft was the most impersonated brand, at 33% of all attempts (up from 23% in Q2) and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Apple, Google, LinkedIn and Amazon completed the top five, together accounting for more than half of attempts. Dropbox (up ten places to eight…