A Microsoft Teams phishing campaign, leveraging techniques commonly used in Black Basta ransomware attacks, was found to spread a unique PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks, ReliaQuest reported Friday.The March 2025 malware campaign also leveraged a persistence tactic never before seen in the wild, according to ReliaQuest, in which the Windows Type Library (TypeLib) is hijacked … Read more
Paris, France, Mar. 24, 2025, CyberNewswire — Arsen, a leading cybersecurity company specializing in social engineering defense, today announced the full release of Conversational Phishing, a groundbreaking feature embedded in its phishing simulation platform. This AI-powered tool introduces dynamic, adaptive phishing conversations to train employees against evolving threats more effectively than ever before. Advanced phishing … Read more
Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through online phishing scams, and that the accused were relying on … Read more
An ingenious phishing scam is targeting cryptocurrency investors, by posing as a mandatory wallet migration. The emails, which have the subject line “Migrate to Coinbase wallet”, have been sent out at a large scale claiming that court order has forced Coinbase to change the way it operates. Part of the email reads as follows: “As … Read more
AI agents such as OpenAI’s Operator have added more functionality than these tools had in the past and can now help attackers launch phishing campaigns. Symantec researchers explained that about a year ago, they would tell security pros that large language models (LLMs) were passive and could only help attackers create phishing materials or write … Read more