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Phishing

Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.

The Blind Spot: How “Bulletproof” Phishing Redirectors Slip Past SEGs

By Shikhar Dalela and Jeewan Singh Jalal The operators named the kit themselves. Buried inside compromised legitimate websites, the hidden staging directory is sometimes literally called ...

AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It.

This year National Social Engineering Day falls on Aug. 6. This day is designed to give us an opportunity to remind people that cybercriminals do not always need sophisticated malware, an ...

New Phishing Kits Use Open-Source Tools to Bypass MFA

Researchers at Lexfo are tracking three sophisticated phishing kits that were built using open-source components, primarily based on the publicly available adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) ...

Inside the OS-Aware Phishing Kit Profiling Your Device

Lead Analysts: Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran and Jeewan Singh Jalal Most phishing attacks pick a target and commit to a tactic. This one picks the tactic based on the target, which happens ...

New Phishing Tools Enable Attackers to Easily Bypass Multifactor Authentication

Researchers at ReliaQuest are tracking two new phishing toolkits that are designed to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA). The first tool, called “Jalisco,” is a device code phishing ...

From Inbox to Encryption: How Ransomware Delivery Has Evolved

Ransomware and phishing have always been linked, but the old model was blunt: a phishing email carried the payload, the recipient opened it, encryption followed within hours.

Attackers Exploit AI Hallucinations to Send Users to Phishing Sites

Threat actors are using a new technique called “phantom squatting” to trick AI tools into directing users to phishing sites, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. Since ...

Warning: ARToken Phishing Kit Automates BEC Attacks

Researchers at Cisco Talos are tracking a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service operator panel called “ARToken” that’s built on the EvilTokens phishing platform. ARToken focuses on targeted ...

Report: Social Engineering Remains a Central Part of AI-assisted Attacks

Threat actors continue to rely on social engineering as AI is incorporated into their attacks, according to ESET’s Threat Report for the first half of 2026. ESET’s Director of Threat ...

Report: Attackers Are Using AI to Automate Social Engineering

Threat actors continue to use AI tools to automate their attack flows and increase efficiency, according to researchers at ReliaQuest.