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VisionHeight, an Israeli threat intelligence firm, uncovered a network of hyperlocal websites spanning at least 14 US states, built to influence how AI chatbots answer questions about local and state races. Sites with names like "Wolverine State Report", "Peach State Bulletin" and "Tarheel State Report" repeat hundreds of near-identical s…
Huntress researchers identified a fake page impersonating the WatchGuard download portal that harvested VPN server addresses, usernames and passwords before offering the legitimate Mobile VPN with SSL installer. The investigation began after suspicious activity involving an administrator at a managed service provider (MSP), who found the …
Trend Micro published research (Unmasking Task Scams) on task scams, a fast-growing fraud model in which fake online job offers lure victims into repetitive, gamified digital tasks and then extract funds through escalating deposit demands. Operators impersonate legitimate staffing firms and digital marketing agencies and use SMS, WhatsApp…
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…
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…
Infoblox attributes the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least April 2017, to Hotejka, a small Russian-language affiliate program that appears to be a rebrand of ROI777 (exposed in 2018). The TDS fingerprints visitors and redirects them to browser-lock tech support scams that push victims to call centers,…
Check Point Exposure Management reports that fraudulent voter-registration messages and legitimate political outreach are converging ahead of the 2026 US midterms, making it harder for voters to tell real messages from fake ones. Between July and September, election offices in Rhode Island and Washington warned of fake emails and texts as…
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…
