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…
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…
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…
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…