Rental phishing sites use live chat to win over hesitant travelers
Holiday travelers looking for a place to stay are landing on copies of popular rental platforms, complete with host names, ratings and reviews, that ask for their passwords, …
Fake job interview opened the door to $6.34 billion Binance heist
A tampered software installer and a fake job interview gave attackers the access they needed to steal about $6.34 billion in digital assets from Binance. “It was not a single …
Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities
Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement …
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor
September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities that have been exploited as …
Fake bank websites play dead to evade security scanners
A phishing method, named Chameleon SEO Poisoning, that uses manipulated search results and cloaked fake banking websites to steal credentials while evading security scanners …
Microsoft patches 400+ vulnerabilities, one zero-day under attack (CVE-2026-68820)
Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday delivered security fixes for 400+ vulnerabilities, including one that has been exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-68820) and …
The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments
An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and moves on with …
Mirage2FA phishing kit uses HTML smuggling to steal Microsoft 365 credentials
Mirage2FA, a phishing kit that combines short-lived HTML smuggling with obfuscated JavaScript loaders to deliver fake Microsoft 365 login pages and steal credentials during …
Phishing hides in routine Microsoft 365 workflows
Attackers are abusing Outlook Groups and Microsoft 365 collaboration features to make phishing campaigns appear routine, according to Fortra. “The technique shifts …
Record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, fresh zero-day
Microsoft marked its largest-ever Patch Tuesday this month, by shipping fixes for nearly 200 vulnerabilities. Within hours, “Nightmare Eclipse”, the researcher …
What security teams miss in email attacks
Email remains the most common entry point for attackers. This article examines how phishing, impersonation, and account takeover continue to drive email breaches and expose …
Clipping Scripted Sparrow’s wings: Tracking a global phishing ring
Between June 2024 and December 2025, Fortra analysts tracked a persistent business email compromise (BEC) operation that we have now classified as Scripted Sparrow. The group …
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