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On September 14, 2026, Cisco disclosed a vulnerability in Cisco Secure Email Gateway. CVE-2026-76461 is a critical (CVSS score of 9.8) SQL injection flaw in the email parsing functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software. Successful exploitation “could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system.” Cisco confirmed exploitation of the vulnerability in the wild, and the U.S.

Threat actors are increasingly leveraging AI hallucinations to plant phishing links and other malicious content in AI output, IEEE Spectrum reports. Large language models (LLMs) sometimes fabricate information, including web domains, when answering users’ questions. Attackers are registering these hallucinated web domains to host phishing pages.

Researchers at INKY observed a major phishing campaign that used SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image files to deliver malicious JavaScript. While abuse of SVG files isn’t new, INKY says their use in phishing campaigns has exploded over the past year.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an advisory warning of a wave of OAuth consent phishing attacks targeting “prominent victims, their family members, and personal acquaintances.” OAuth phishing is an increasingly popular social engineering tactic that tricks users into granting access to their accounts without handing over their passwords.

With inboxes increasingly well guarded, cybercriminals are turning to a more vulnerable front in their attacks against your digital workforce. Voice is the fastest-growing attack vector, and it’s because it’s dangerously effective. According to Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigation Report, phone-centric attacks are 40% more successful than traditional email-based phishing.

Researchers at ZeroBEC are tracking a phishing platform called “Greatness” that’s been significantly upgraded since it surfaced in 2023. “Since its initial discovery, the platform has evolved significantly,” the researchers write.

In addition to everyday users, Google's infrastructure is trusted by email security gateways, enterprise firewalls and automated URL detonation platforms. Threat actors know this.

In our previous “ABC’s of ‘ishing” posts, we explored how attackers use social media, calendar invites, fake CAPTCHA challenges, and other trusted tools to deceive users. This next installment looks at three phishing techniques that continue to put organizations and individuals at risk: evil twin phishing, domain spoofing, and email phishing.

A new phishing kit is using generative AI to fully automate voice phishing (vishing) attacks, according to researchers at Group-IB. The phishing platform, called “Balonx,” includes a module dubbed “CallFlow” that the researchers say “represents a fundamental evolution” in the phishing-as-a-service market.

Researchers at Zimperium are tracking widespread phishing campaigns that use Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) attacks to trick users into handing over their enterprise credentials. The attackers impersonate real HR employees at major companies and target job seekers with extremely realistic interview processes.