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.
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.
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Researchers at CyberProof warn that threat actors are launching phishing attacks via Microsoft Teams’ “Chat with Anyone” feature, which lets external users send direct messages via email addresses.
Researchers at SpyCloud have observed a 400% year-over-year increase in successful phishing attacks, with a disproportionate number of attacks targeting corporate accounts.
Threat actors are using the open-source phishing framework Evilginx to target universities across the United States, according to researchers at Infoblox. The attackers have targeted at least 18 universities and educational entities since April 2025, using phishing pages that spoofed student single sign-on (SSO) portals.
ReliaQuest warns that the cybercriminal collective “Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters” appears to be using social engineering attacks to target organizations’ Zendesk instances.
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 are tracking two new malicious AI tools, WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT, that allow threat actors to craft phishing lures and generate ransomware code.
