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WeChat Phishing Attacks a Growing Threat Outside China

Dec 18, 2025 By KnowBe4 Threat Lab In KnowBe4
“Super-app” WeChat offers a wealth of functionality—from instant messaging, text and voice messaging, and video calls to mobile payments, ride booking, ordering food deliveries, paying bills and even accessing government services. Provided by Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent, WeChat has become deeply integrated into daily life in China and usage has been spreading globally. The app now boasts over 1.4 billion active users (24.8% of total internet users).
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Understanding Ransomware Email Threats

Dec 18, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
The Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) ecosystem has changed the look and shape of modern day ransomware attacks. Malicious actors typically view their cybercrimes as a business, hoping to make the most amount of money with the least amount of effort. For example, according to research, AI-automated phishing attacks performed similarly to human generated ones and 350% better than the ones sent to the control group.
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Enhancing Digital Security: How ClarityCheck Supports Cyber Awareness

Enhancing Digital Security: How ClarityCheck Supports Cyber Awareness

Dec 17, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
In today's digital-first world, personal and business information is constantly at risk. Cybersecurity threats are no longer limited to large corporations-individuals face data breaches, phishing attempts, and identity theft on a daily basis. One emerging solution that has gained attention in online communities, including a positive review on Reddit, is ClarityCheck. This innovative service allows users to search for information linked to phone numbers and email addresses, providing an extra layer of digital visibility and protection.
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Phish No More: Instant Defense with Cato SASE

Dec 16, 2025 By Cato Networks In Cato Networks
Phishing remains one of the most common ways attackers try to breach enterprise environments. Traditional tools often detect these attempts too late, giving attackers time to gain a foothold. In this demo, you’ll see how the Cato SASE Cloud Platform stops phishing attempts in real time. Cato inspects every click, evaluates threats instantly, and blocks malicious sites before they load, without slowing users down.
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Phishing Campaign Targets Executives With Phony Awards

Dec 16, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
A phishing campaign is targeting executives with phony offers for awards, according to researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs. The attackers first dupe the victims into handing over their credentials, then use the ClickFix social engineering technique to trick them into installing malware. “The campaign uses a high-value executive recognition lure, ‘Cartier Recognition Program,’ to target executives,” the researchers write.
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[Heads Up] Crafty New Phishing Attacks Abuse Free Cloudflare Pages

Dec 15, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Malwarebytes warns that threat actors are abusing the free Cloudflare Pages service to host phishing portals, helping the phishing sites avoid detection by security scanners. The attackers are building fake login pages impersonating banking, insurance, and healthcare entities. The pages are designed to harvest credentials as well as security questions and multifactor authentication codes.
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How to Avoid Phishing Attacks: A Complete Guide for Users and IT Teams

Dec 11, 2025 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Phishing remains one of the most common cyber threats, affecting users across industries and regions. It targets human behavior rather than technology, which makes it more effective than many other attack methods. Now, attackers are using advanced tools, like AI, to make phishing more effective. To know how to avoid phishing attacks, you must understand how they work and the different forms they take.
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Enumerating Users and Mailboxes in Microsoft Outlook 365 Web

Dec 11, 2025 By James Drew In Sentrium
During our research into Microsoft 365 security, we discovered a flaw in Outlook on the web (OWA) that exposed information about users and their mailboxes. By manipulating certain request headers against the “/owa/service.svc” endpoint, an attacker could not only confirm whether a user account existed, but also determine if that account had a mailbox associated with it.
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The Security Blind Spots Most Operators Miss - According to Igor Finkelshtein

The Security Blind Spots Most Operators Miss - According to Igor Finkelshtein

Dec 11, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
In the cybersecurity world, it's easy to focus on the latest breach or high-profile vulnerability. But according to multi-industry operator Igor Finkelshtein, most security incidents don't begin with sophisticated attacks - they begin with overlooked operational weaknesses. From transportation to real estate to SaaS platforms, Finkelshtein's experience shows that cybersecurity is ultimately an operational discipline. The vulnerabilities that quietly accumulate inside a business often pose a greater risk than anything happening outside it.
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Report: Phishing Has Surged 400% Year-Over-Year

Dec 10, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Researchers at SpyCloud have observed a 400% year-over-year increase in successful phishing attacks, with a disproportionate number of attacks targeting corporate accounts. “The company tracked a 400% year-over-year increase in successfully phished identities, with nearly 40% of the 28+ million recaptured phished records containing a business email address – compared to just 11.5% in recaptured malware data,” the researchers write.
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