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A friend of mine, John D., received this outreach on Threads (see below).
At first, he thought it was the standard fake employer scam, but it is more than that. It is very likely part of a North Korean fake employee scam.
Identity verification has become the latest front in the fight against industrialized fraud, according to a new report from Regula. The shift is visible across sectors that once relied on predictable verification routines. Criminals have learned to tar…
Here’s a curious thing about people, sometimes we crave the familiar, and sometimes we demand the novel.
A convincing (but fake) “Windows Update” screen can be the perfect lure for tricking users into infecting their computers with malware. Add a multi-stage delivery chain with some offbeat techniques, and infostealer operators have everything…
The AI-native social engineering defense (SED) platform will accelerate product innovation and expand its offerings.
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Attackers have taken the ClickFix technique further, with pages borrowing tricks from online sellers to pressure victims into performing the steps that will lead to a malware infection. Push Security has spotted one of these pages, showing an embedded …
I received this email the other day to my personal email account. It is a “Security Alert” from “Microsoft Helpdesk.” Oh, my!
Microsoft Teams vulnerabilities let attackers impersonate users, edit chat history, and spoof calls before Microsoft issued security fixes in late 2025.
Cybercriminals are compromising logistics and trucking companies by tricking them into installing remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools, Proofpoint researchers warned. The attackers’ end goal is to hijack freight shipments and sell the stolen go…
Microsoft is warning of a scam involving online payroll systems. Criminals use social engineering to steal people’s credentials, and then divert direct deposits into accounts that they control. Sometimes they do other things to make it harder for…