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Synthetic Sabotage: How AI Tools Are Fueling Tailored Phishing Campaigns at Scale

SecureWorld News

The phishing game has evolved into synthetic sabotage a hybrid form of social engineering powered by AI that can personalize, localize, and scale attacks with unnerving precision. The quiet revolution of phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) If you haven't noticed by now, phishing has gone SaaS. For phishing, this is a gold mine.

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Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

Schneier on Security

And third, using flawed mental shortcuts, like believing PDFs to be safer than Microsoft Word documents, or that mobile devices are safer than computers for opening suspicious emails. Current phishing attacks have evolved from those older Nigerian scams filled with grammar mistakes and typos. This is all hard.

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Google Gemini AI Flaw Could Lead to Gmail Compromise, Phishing

Security Boulevard

Researchers discovered a security flaw in Google's Gemini AI chatbot that could put the 2 billion Gmail users in danger of being victims of an indirect prompt injection attack, which could lead to credentials being stolen or phishing attacks.

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March Madness Meets Cyber Mayhem: How Cybercriminals Are Playing Offense this Season

SecureWorld News

March Madness is here, and while fans are busy filling out brackets and making last-minute bets, cybercriminals are running their own full-court presstargeting unsuspecting fans with phishing scams, fake betting apps, and credential-harvesting schemes. This scenario follows the common phishing tactics: strike at personal interest.

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Road Tolls Scams Rise on FBI's Radar; Public Warned Against Smishing

SecureWorld News

Some reports indicate that Chinese smishing groups are selling SMS phishing kits, enabling scammers to efficiently spoof toll operators and target users in multiple states, including Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas. 84% of IT leaders globally recognize that phishing and smishing have become harder to detect due to AI-powered tools.

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Financial cyberthreats in 2024

SecureList

To gain an understanding of the financial threat landscape, we analyzed anonymized data on malicious activities detected on the devices of Kaspersky security product users and consensually provided to us through the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7

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RSA Conference 2025: Top Announcements and Key Takeaways from the Cybersecurity World’s Biggest Stage

eSecurity Planet

Abnormal AI rolls out autonomous security agents Abnormal AI made waves with what its calling its most ambitious product release to date with the launch of two new autonomous AI agents designed to protect users and simplify security operations. PDF-based phishing is on the rise. However, technology alone wont win this fight.