Keeper Security has launched an opt-in Phishing Protection feature in the Keeper Browser Extension (version 18.2.0). It uses a local AI engine to detect look-alike domains, spoofed websites and brand impersonation before users enter credentials. The vendor cites the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, which found credential ab…
Aikido Security published a vendor comparison of ten email security platforms for 2026. It ranks its own workforce platform, Noon Security, first, followed by Proofpoint, Mimecast, Abnormal AI, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Check Point, IRONSCALES, Barracuda, Sublime Security and KnowBe4 Defend. The article describes no specific inci…
Publicly reported data breaches in the US reached an all-time high last year, with over 3,300 incidents and nearly 280 million victim notices. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that over 471 million notices went out in the first half of 2026, but only 24% described the attack vector, the lowest rate it has recorded. The ar…
Check Point researchers report large-scale phishing campaigns that abuse fake calendar invitations to harvest Microsoft account credentials. Lures arrive either as a malicious .ics attachment or as a link, for example in a fake Microsoft Teams meeting invite, that appears to point to one destination but leads to a credential-harvesting pa…
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…
North Korea (DPRK) is running simple reply-baiting phishing attacks against Ukrainian targets. The goal is to gain insight into its own war effort in Ukraine. The article is a short teaser, so it gives no information on the specific actor, targets, infrastructure or tooling. Technical Details - The campaign relies on reply-baiting phishin…
A cybercrime marketplace tracked as Yam Store supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped drive more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide. The marketplace appears to work as an enabling service, letting other criminals run large-scale phishing campaigns without building their own tooling. The source article is a shor…
A sponsored feature from Kaseya, published on The Register, describes how account takeover (ATO) has become stealthier. Attackers obtain credentials, usually through GenAI-assisted phishing, then stay quiet and monitor email traffic until they can inject themselves into a conversation. A compromised mailbox is then used for outbound phish…
Cisco Talos observed roughly 1,400 messages across two callback phishing campaigns that abuse legitimate Dell and Staples order notification pipelines. The attackers inject fraudulent helpline numbers into fields the retailer platforms render in authenticated transactional emails, so the messages pass authentication without spoofed sender…
Researchers at Abnormal AI identified a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, Athena StealthRoute, which uses AI tooling to both create and conceal phishing attacks. Linked infrastructure was first seen during an August 2026 phishing campaign. In the six months to October 9, the firm found about 89,700 attack-related messages with t…
Sekoia announced an integration between Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and the Sekoia autonomous SOC platform. It brings mobile threat telemetry into a single environment for detection, investigation and threat hunting. The post is vendor product content, not a new incident or vulnerability. It argues that mobile devices are now a …
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports on TAG-193, a cluster that ran a sustained intelligence-collection campaign against government bodies from early 2025 through May 2026. Targets include diplomacy, economic development, agriculture and environmental agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. Lure documents and im…
F5 Labs argues that AI systems embedded in the operations of the 2026 Winter Games (spectator chatbots, scheduling, translation, fraud detection, operational analytics) create a behavioral attack surface that traditional security controls do not cover. The main risk is manipulated model behavior rather than outages or stolen credentials. …
FortiGuard Labs reports an ongoing Ousaban campaign targeting the Iberian Peninsula. The actor keeps refining its delivery chain and uses geofencing and environmental checks to restrict access to the malware to the intended victims. Ousaban resolves its C2 IP through daily-changing domains and runs a traditional C2 setup as a decoy. Its l…
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a Casbaneiro banking trojan campaign targeting users in Latin America. The campaign applies access restrictions at several stages to keep the malware away from analysis tools: the download page, the HTA downloader and Casbaneiro itself. Casbaneiro sends different types of stolen data to separate servers and uses a…
ESET warns that QR-code phishing ("quishing") is a growing way to slip past corporate email security. According to the ESET Threat Report H1 2026, malicious QR codes were embedded in 11% of all phishing emails in the first half of 2026. The codes hide destination URLs from filters that cannot extract and inspect them, and they move the vi…
ESET WeLiveSecurity warns that scammers are exploiting demand for Robux, the virtual currency of Roblox, to steal credentials, personal information and money, with children and younger players the main targets. Roblox states that no legitimate free Robux generators, tricks or codes exist. Only earned routes are legitimate, such as officia…
Episode 488 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Paul Ducklin, covers several recent security stories. The lead item is the arrest by the FBI of an executive at a ransomware negotiation firm, reportedly at a cybersecurity conference, in connection with the investigation into the ShinyHunters gang. The hosts…
Huntress researchers detailed an SEO-poisoning campaign on 13 October that harvests SSL VPN credentials through a lookalike WatchGuard download page, watchguard-vpn.net, and then delivers the legitimate, validly signed Mobile VPN with SSL installer. Earlier waves used trojanised installers, but this iteration contains no malware, so endpo…
Darktrace researchers documented a new campaign distributing CikaBika Bot, a Rust-based remote access trojan controlled entirely through Discord. The infection chain starts with a disk image named PropositionProjet.img, which contains a French-language decoy PDF and a Windows shortcut disguised as a Word document. A Nim loader extracts th…