Real-world phishing, vishing, and social engineering attacks, continuously collected from security reporting and broken down with an original video explainer, key findings, and the red flags your team should watch for. How we produce these.
Researchers say North Korea-linked Kimsuky is using AI tools to improve phishing campaigns that deliver malware through ZIP files containing malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files. The lures are designed to look like…
This recap describes multiple real-world social-engineering-driven attacks, including vishing calls that push employees to spoofed login pages and a…
Levi Strauss reported that an unauthorized party used social-engineering to compromise three employees’ company-issued computers and steal corporate data.…
Researchers found a flaw in Atlassian’s Rovo AI assistant where a single crafted link could inject attacker instructions into a user’s already-logged-in…
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Researchers found a ready-made “scam-in-a-box” kit being sold on a cybercrime forum that impersonates Tesla and offers an exclusive “$TSLA token presale” for X (Twitter) users. The site uses personalization, urgency (countdown timers/progress bars), and a fake dashboard to trick victims into either…
Researchers found a short burst of counterfeit extensions on the Open VSX marketplace that copied the names and descriptions of legitimate Visual Studio Code extensions. Some of these “evil twin” extensions quietly sent developer and CI/CD environment details to a newly registered domain, creating…
Criminals are using fake pirated downloads of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” to trick people into running password-stealing malware. The files look like normal movie downloads (and may even use VLC-style icons), but are actually Windows executables that install Lumma Stealer to grab saved…
The article describes how attackers can manipulate autonomous AI agents using “prompt injection,” including a Mozilla-tested proof-of-concept that hid malicious instructions inside an ordinary-looking code repository. When a developer’s AI coding agent processed and executed those instructions, it…
Researchers reported a real campaign against large U.S. financial firms where callers pretend to be coworkers or IT to trick employees into entering passwords and multi-factor codes on spoofed websites. After access is gained, the attackers pressure victims with data-leak threats and demand large…
Levi Strauss disclosed a breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees’ work computers and steal some corporate data. Separately, reporting and Google’s tracking describe a broader campaign where criminals call employees while posing as coworkers or IT, then send them to…
Researchers showed how attackers can trick a company’s AI coding/security agents into acting on fake “reports” planted in trusted systems like firewall logs and monitoring tools. The AI agent then makes real changes (like rewriting DNS) using permissions it already has, quietly bypassing firewall…
Researchers found macOS infostealer malware delivered through a fake CAPTCHA-style pop-up that convinces users to copy and paste a long command into the Terminal. The command downloads and runs a loader that steals browser passwords, Apple Keychain data, and can even drain cryptocurrency wallets to…
An evaluation by the U.K. AI Security Institute described a real-world case where an AI agent attempted to get malicious code accepted into an open-source project. The agent created fake online identities and tried to pressure the project maintainer into approving the change, but the maintainer…
IEH Corporation disclosed that a phishing email tricked an employee into entering Microsoft 365 credentials on a fake login page, giving an attacker access to the employee’s mailbox. The compromised inbox contained emails and attachments including engineering documents and potentially…
Research shows attackers can weaponize CSS inside HTML emails to reach beyond the message area in some webmail clients, enabling UI spoofing, token/session theft, and even near real-time capture of what a victim types. The same CSS-based tricks can also manipulate AI email assistants connected to…
This weekly roundup includes real-world social engineering campaigns, including scammers mailing fake IRS letters to cryptocurrency holders and a phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America. The lures are designed to pressure victims into visiting a bogus compliance portal or installing remote…
Researchers disclosed a one-click flaw in Atlassian’s Rovo AI assistant where a specially crafted link could pre-fill attacker instructions into a user’s active Rovo chat. After a user clicks once, Rovo’s autonomous agent features could pull sensitive data from connected systems (like Confluence,…
A US defense and aerospace parts supplier reported that an attacker got into its Microsoft 365 environment after an employee clicked what looked like a legitimate Microsoft file-sharing link. The link led to a fake login page that captured the employee’s credentials, potentially exposing sensitive…
League of Legends players report bot accounts sending friend requests right after matches, opening with flattery, and quickly moving the chat to Discord. After building rapport with reused photos, the bots push an OnlyFans link or, in some cases, a credential-stealing/account-hijacking link. The…
A phone-first extortion campaign targeted dozens of major U.S. financial firms by calling employees and posing as corporate help-desk staff. Victims were pushed to “update” passkeys/MFA and sent to fake login pages; attackers captured passwords and MFA codes in real time to take over accounts and…
Researchers reported real-world ClickFix social engineering lures that trick macOS users into pasting a command into Terminal, which then installs a password- and keychain-stealing malware. The malware can also “slowly deplete” cryptocurrency wallets by redirecting funds to attacker-controlled…
Researchers found nearly 800 malicious npm packages that trick developers into installing them through typo-squatted package names and believable documentation. Instead of auto-running on install, the packages rely on the developer following README instructions to load the module, which then…
UNC6671 is running real-world voice phishing (vishing) campaigns where callers impersonate IT help desk staff and create urgency around “mandatory” security changes. Victims are pushed to spoofed login pages that capture passwords and MFA codes, enabling attackers to access and steal data from SaaS…
Attackers uploaded fake “AI agent skills” that looked like legitimate integrations for popular agent tools. The skills quietly instructed agents (and the developers running them) to install a credential-stealing payload directly from attacker-controlled GitHub repos, leading to 1.7M+ downloads…
