Microsoft has witnessed a surge in the use of this tactic since May 2025, as part of opportunistic campaigns targeting organizations across multiple industries and verticals.

Worse than telemarketers are the bad guys who use voicemail or a phone call as a phishing attack. In a process known as ...

Threat actors abuse complex routing and misconfigured protections to spoof domains and send phishing emails that appear to be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Dec. 13, 2024: This story, originally published Dec.

Threat actors are exploiting complex routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to send spoofed phishing emails, ...

Go phish: Why the sudden rise in phishing attacks? In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Acronis Threat Research Unit detected a sharp jump in the number of phishing attacks — 194% over the previous year ...

A new report out today from phishing defense company Cofense Inc. is warning of increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks that exploit trusted email security companies such as Proofpoint Inc., ...

Holding large sums of cryptocurrency, crypto whales attract cybercriminals who launch sophisticated phishing attacks to exploit them. These attacks often use fake websites, emails, and impersonation, ...

So, when an attacker sends a fake UCPath payroll notification with a QR code linking to a credential harvesting site, a SEG ...

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting online account credentials, with 88.5% of phishing scams focused on stealing login ...

Current anti-phishing training programs have little to no impact. Training methods lack what human learners need: engagement. These programs must be revamped and combined with supportive technologies.