“Someone online shows a ‘trick’ that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls you in. Everyone’s doing it. It feels like skill, not crime.”
A young person from South Africa, describing how their peers slide into cybercrime.
91% of Americans have been targeted by a scam, and 17% have fallen victim to one, according to a new survey by Consumer Reports. Notably, 20% of respondents said the latest scam they encountered was personalized, indicating that attackers are increasingly using automation and public or leaked information to craft targeted phishing attacks.
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Tens of thousands of European organizations are legally accountable for the security of companies they do not control but on whose services they rely. Under Article 21(2)(d) of the NIS2 Directive, any in-scope entity is required to manage supply chain security, including the security aspects of its relationships with its direct suppliers and service providers. Article 21(3) further specifies that an organization must take each supplier’s specific vulnerabilities into account.
A phishing campaign is using AI-themed lures to target employees who operate advertising accounts, according to a new report from Island. The campaign is launched from a phishing platform that poses as a portfolio of AI advertising tools, using branding from Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Muse. The platform’s operator added a fake Muse Ads lure eight days after Meta launched its Muse AI agent.
Microsoft is tracking phishing campaigns that use various lures to deliver MSP360, a legitimate RMM tool that attackers are abusing to gain a foothold on compromised systems.
Researchers at ReliaQuest have observed a surge in voice phishing (vishing) and Microsoft Teams phishing over the past several months, particularly from extortion groups like ShinyHunters.
Ransomware attacks involving data theft have surged by 275% in 2026, according to a new report from Zscaler. Attackers exfiltrated more than 896.2 terabytes of data from victim organizations, more than seven times the amount stolen during the 2023–2024 reporting period.
