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Forty percent of employees have never received cybersecurity training, according to a new report from Yubico. That number rises to nearly sixty percent for employees working for small businesses. The report surveyed 18,000 employed adults from the US, the UK, Australia, India, Japan, France, Germany, Singapore, and Sweden. “Our research finds that 4 in 10 (40%) employees have never received training on cybersecurity in any form,” Yubico says.

Scammers are increasingly using visually stylized QR codes to deliver phishing links, Help Net Security reports. QR code phishing (quishing) is already more difficult to detect, since these codes deliver links without a visible URL. Attackers are now using QR codes with colors, shapes, and logos woven into the code’s pattern. “Fancy QR codes further complicate detection,” Help Net Security says. “Their layouts no longer resemble the familiar black and white grid.

For those of you who are like me, when I first heard about the new EU AI Act, I had flashbacks to the implementation of the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) back in 2018. There are certainly a lot of similarities with the EU leading the way in consumer protections that will likely lead to more, similar legislation across the globe. I’m also reminded of the iPhone when it was introduced in the consumer market and bled into the workplace (I for one held onto my Blackberry for as long as I could).

A widespread phishing campaign is targeting LinkedIn users by posting comments on users’ posts, BleepingComputer reports. Threat actors are using bots to post the comments, which impersonate LinkedIn itself and inform the user that their account has been restricted due to policy violations. The comments contain links to supposedly allow the user to appeal the restriction.

KnowBe4 Threat Labs recently examined a sophisticated dual-vector campaign that demonstrates the real-world exploitation chain following credential compromise. This is not a traditional virus attack. Instead of deploying custom viruses, attackers are bypassing security perimeters by weaponizing the necessary IT tools that administrators trust. By stealing a “skeleton key” to the system, they turn legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software into a persistent backdoor.

A survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF) found that 47% of organizations cite the advancement of adversarial capabilities as their top concern surrounding generative AI. These capabilities include phishing, malware development, and deepfakes, all of which are increasingly accessible due to AI tools. Additionally, 42% of organizations experienced a successful social engineering attack last year, and the researchers expect this number to rise as AI-assisted social engineering grows more advanced.

While organizations invest heavily in stopping threats from entering their networks, a critical vulnerability often goes underprotected: sensitive data leaving the organization through email. Every day, employees send thousands of emails containing confidential information - patient records, financial data, legal documents, and personally identifiable information (PII). And every day, some of those emails go to the wrong recipient.

Scammers stole an estimated $17 billion worth of cryptocurrency in 2025, according to a new report from Chainalysis. Notably, the report found that AI-assisted scams stole 4.5 times more money than scams that didn’t leverage AI. “Our analysis reveals that, on average, scams with on-chain links to AI vendors extract $3.2 million per operation compared to $719,000 for those without an on-chain link — 4.5 times more revenue per scam,” the researchers write.

Attackers are increasingly abusing network misconfigurations to send spoofed phishing emails, according to researchers at Microsoft. This technique isn’t new, but Microsoft has observed a surge in these attacks since May 2025. “Phishing actors are exploiting complex routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to effectively spoof organizations’ domains and deliver phishing emails that appear, superficially, to have been sent internally,” the researchers write.

Researchers at RavenMail warn that a major phishing campaign targeted more than 3,000 organizations last month, primarily in the manufacturing industry. The phishing messages posed as legitimate business notifications, such as file access requests or voicemail alerts, and were designed to send users to credential-harvesting login pages. Notably, the campaign abused legitimate Google infrastructure and links to avoid being flagged by security tools.