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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…
Episode 487 of the Smashing Security podcast covers the hijacking of Microsoft's official X (Twitter) account, which has 13 million followers. The attackers used a Clippy theme to promote a dubious crypto coin, and a corporate apology that circulated was not from Microsoft either. There was no ransomware or data theft. The episode also co…
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…
A vendor-sponsored analysis by Exaforce (published on bleepingcomputer.com) says attackers are enumerating or exfiltrating data within about 15 minutes of gaining access. It describes three patterns: stolen developer GitHub OAuth tokens, ClickFix lures that impersonate Claude Code install instructions to deliver a macOS stealer, and help …
Huntress published an explainer on business email compromise (BEC), a targeted form of phishing in which attackers impersonate or take over trusted email accounts to redirect payments or steal credentials. The article cites roughly $55 billion in worldwide losses and a Huntress survey of 500+ US IT professionals, in which 36% of organizat…
