Huntress analyzed an active credential-phishing campaign in which the lookalike domain watchguard-vpn.net harvests WatchGuard SSL VPN credentials. On October 7, 2026, an administrator at a managed service provider searched Bing for "watchguard vpn sll download" and clicked through to the fake page, which Huntress classifies as SEO poisoni…
Huntress argues that passkeys raise the bar for authentication but do not close the account lifecycle: attackers still target enrollment, recovery, compromised endpoints, alternative sign-in flows and social engineering. Huntress researchers tracked a device-code phishing campaign, EvilTokens, that hit 344 organizations across five countr…
Huntress announced general availability of the Managed ITDR Lookback feature. It reviews up to 180 days of Microsoft 365 login history for newly onboarded tenants, looking for compromises that predate monitoring. Active compromises trigger a critical Incident Report, SOC investigation and session revocation. Previously remediated ones are…
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…
This ESET blog post argues that AI is speeding up the threat landscape for SMBs, both by empowering threat actors and by widening the attack surface as businesses adopt AI faster than they govern it. The ESET SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026 reports that 73% of SMBs are integrating AI, 40% lack a proper AI policy, and 45% suffered a cyberse…
ESET analysis describes a two-pronged risk for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs): AI agents create new paths into business systems, while attackers use AI to add speed and scale to established threats. Between March and May 2026, ESET scanned almost 900,000 unique agent skills from popular repositories and found more than 25,000 suspic…
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…
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…
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…
Cisco Talos disclosed an APT spear-phishing and quishing campaign, tracked as UAT-11985, that targets individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations. First seen in mid-2026, it uses fake event invitations to lead victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework that harvests Google account credentials and MFA cod…
Microsoft, working with industry partners and Japanese police, disrupted a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) ecosystem centered on Yam Store, an underground marketplace tracked as Storm-3119. The phishing kits sold there were responsible for over a billion phishing emails and texts sent to more than 75,000 organizations since…
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…
Two official Twitter/X accounts of Ireland's police service, Garda Síochána, were accessed by an unauthorised third party on Wednesday evening and used to post cryptocurrency-related messages. The posts claimed followers could claim free cryptocurrency through an airdrop, a lure that can trick victims into handing over wallet keys and hav…
An actor using the handle Shenron claims to have released a dataset tied to APICRYPT Messaging, a secure healthcare messaging system created in 1996 and managed by the APICEM association. The listing advertises 852,757 rows covering 60,911 users, and marks the breach and release as occurring in 2026. The visible sample contains healthcare…
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…
The FBI and CISA issued a joint Public Service Announcement warning that malicious cyber actors may use phishing and smishing against election officials, candidates and political organizations ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. These targets are attractive because of their access to voter registration data, current government offic…
A threat actor calling itself Siriusim allegedly leaked customer information and documents tied to the State Bank of India (SBI), according to a CyberPulse post dated October 16, 2026. The claimed dataset has 375,000 CSV rows and 2,722 PDF documents. Its authenticity, origin and scope are unverified, and the row count does not equal the n…
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…