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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…
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…
