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Microsoft 365 accounts compromised at 79 organizations, no passwords needed

An attacker who spent ten weeks replaying stolen Microsoft 365 sign-in sessions broke into email accounts at 79 organizations and used hidden inbox rules to keep victims from …

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Attackers abuse legitimate platforms to deliver phishing emails that pass authentication checks

A Dell order confirmation lands in your inbox and it looks pretty legitimate: it comes from Dell’s order domain, passes DKIM and DMARC checks, uses Dell’s real …

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Quarantined, but still on your calendar: The explosion of invite-based attacks

There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime Security have warned. …

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Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks

Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four …

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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 …

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Fake CAPTCHAs are tricking users into running malware on their own devices

Fake CAPTCHA checks are being used to do more than hide phishing pages. Attackers are turning the familiar “prove you’re human” step into a gateway for malware downloads, …

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Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages

Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, …

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Fake brand discounts on social media prey on shoppers’ fear of missing out

Cybercriminals are using fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok to lure shoppers to phishing sites that steal their payment card details and one-time passwords, Group-IB …

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Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts

A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, …

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Former US Air Force members behind million-dollar BEC scheme head to prison

Two men who ran BEC and phishing campaigns against US businesses while serving in the Air Force have been sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison. According to …

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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. …

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DarkMe RAT trades zero-days for plain phishing emails

DarkMe, a remote access trojan and info-stealer that has previously been associated with a threat group that targeted financial market traders and cryptocurrency users, has …

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