Between July 14 and September 22, 2026, Huntress detected 497 Microsoft 365 sign-in events across 79 victim organizations in a token replay campaign. The attacker replayed post-MFA session tokens stolen through AiTM relays, device-code phishing and social engineering, a pattern Huntress calls "token spraying". Replay traffic came from the…
The 2026 Ponemon Healthcare Cybersecurity Report, commissioned by Proofpoint, finds that cyberattacks on healthcare organizations are rising, costing more and increasingly harming patient care. The survey covered 705 IT and security practitioners. 97% of organizations suffered at least one attack in the past 12 months, averaging 51 attack…
Trend Micro published its annual threat report, Calibrating Expansion, covering 2023. It reports 161 billion threats blocked, a 10% annual increase. Attackers appear to be targeting fewer, higher-value victims with more sophisticated methods. Email and web reputation blocks fell 47% and 2%, while File Reputation Service detections rose 35…
Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute released their fifth annual Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare report, based on a survey of 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. healthcare organizations. 97% of respondents experienced at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 74% of those reported disruption to patient care. The average nu…
FortiGuard Labs describes a large-scale, global campaign that uses heavily obfuscated JScript droppers to launch an AutoIt/Lua-based loader with low detection rates. The loader delivers several popular RATs and infostealers, including a version of Snake Keylogger. The infection chain relies on business email compromise tactics, impersonat…
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…
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…
A Huntress thought-leadership post sets out five priorities for security leaders in 2026: abuse of trusted IT tools, AI-enabled cybercrime, social engineering, multi-extortion ransomware and identity-based attacks including BEC. The article cites internal Huntress telemetry showing RMM abuse rising roughly 277% year over year, with Screen…
Proofpoint reported at its Protect 2026 conference that generative AI is removing the behavioral tells (awkward language, reused templates, repeated infrastructure) that email filters have relied on. Attackers can now produce fluent, personalized, unique messages for each recipient, which weakens behavior-only detection. The vendor cites …
ESET analysis describes how modern phishing and social engineering have shed the classic tells (poor grammar, suspicious URLs, crude login pages) and increasingly target live sessions and authentication tokens rather than passwords. Cybercrime-as-a-service phishing kits and AI tooling lower the cost of tailored, rapport-building lures. Ac…
INTERPOL announced the results of Operation Serengeti III, a coordinated law enforcement action run between June 29 and August 31, 2026 across 21 countries, mostly in Africa plus the United States. The operation led to 1,462 arrests, the disruption of 10,909 malicious networks and the recovery of more than $105 million in illicit funds. A…
This ESET WeLiveSecurity article explains email bombing (also called form, list or subscription bombing) and cites a September report of a Virginia woman flooded with hundreds of emails in 24 hours. The flood hid a genuine bank alert about a fraudulent laptop purchase. Attackers use bots to sign a harvested email address up to many legiti…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup covers law enforcement wins and two major breaches. A federal court sentenced former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius to 70 months for attacks on technology and telecom firms, and former U.S. Air Force members Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and Harafat Mogaji received a combined 189 months for business em…
Interpol announced the results of Operation Serengeti III, run between June 29 and August 31 with authorities from 21 African countries. The operation targeted business email compromise (BEC), ransomware and online scams. It led to 1,462 arrests, the dismantling of 10,909 malicious networks and the recovery of more than $105 million. Inve…
Trend Micro published its 2025 security predictions report, The Easy Way In/Out: Securing The Artificial Future, warning that highly customized, AI-powered attacks will supercharge scams, phishing and influence operations in 2025 and beyond. The central prediction is the emergence of malicious "digital twins": breached or leaked PII used …
ESET's WeLiveSecurity warns that AI and large language models (LLMs) now automate OSINT reconnaissance at machine speed. Profiling that once took a skilled attacker hours or days can be done by low-skill actors, so ordinary internet users are now economically viable fraud targets. Fraudsters can collect public information at scale, includ…
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…