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An open source, AI-driven system adopts victim personas to engage with phishing attackers, allowing organizations and law enforcement to gather relevant data on cybercriminal operations.
Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. [...]
It’s dumb out there again
Modern phishing, BEC, and account takeover attacks increasingly bypass traditional email defenses and create operational strain for security teams. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help automate detection, investigation, and remediation to reduce alert fatigue and accelerate response times. [...]
Phishing simulation on an OpenClaw email agent with various configuration profiles showed that it was susceptible to tactics commonly used to compromise human users. [...]
Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens? Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.…
AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks outpace traditional email defenses. Varonis' new Interceptor platform uses multimodal AI — vision, language, and behavior models — to detect zero-hour attacks and stop them before they reach users. [...]
Microsoft is calling attention to a new phishing campaign primarily aimed at U.S.-based organizations that has likely utilized code generated using large language models (LLMs) to obfuscate payloads and evade security defenses
Acquisition Targets Business Email Compromise, Impersonation and Spear-PhishingVaronis has acquired SlashNext to strengthen detection of phishing and social engineering attacks. The integration will help prevent identity compromises via email, SMS and collaboration tools while enhancing Miami-based Varonis’ AI-driven data protection.
One Prompt Was Enough for AI Agent to Buy, Click and Expose Sensitive DataAI agents that shop and surf the web on behalf of users are suckers for scams, find security researchers who sicced a fake online story, a phishing email and a fake captcha on Perplexity's AI-powered web browser Comet. The AI's logic was not designed to weigh credibility or risk.
Ironscales Founder, CEO Eyal Benishti Pushes to Expand AI Protection Beyond EmailDeepfake phishing is escalating as cybercriminals deploy agentic AI to automate everything from data collection to social engineering. Ironscales founder and CEO Eyal Benishti outlines how phishing is targeting communication platforms beyond email, and how defenders can keep up.
AI SPERA announced today that it launched its Criminal IP Malicious Link Detector add-in on the Microsoft Marketplace. Learn more about how this tool provides real-time phishing email detection and URL blocking for Microsoft Outlook. [...]
Barracuda CEO Hatem Naguib Shares Strategies for Email Protection, Managed ServicesWith cyberthreats becoming more sophisticated, Barracuda CEO Hatem Naguib explains how managed XDR and AI-driven email protection help SMBs. From stopping phishing attacks to automating incident response, Naguib highlights solutions that streamline operations and address cloud adoption risks.
We’ll TL;DR the FUDdy introduction: we all know that phishing attacks are on the rise in scale and complexity, that AI is enabling more sophisticated attacks that evade traditional defenses, and the never-ending cybersecurity talent gap means we’re all struggling to keep security teams fully staffed. Given that reality, security teams need to be able to monitor and respond to threats
Email security provider Egress found that AI detectors were unable to identify if a phishing email came from an AI chatbot
The company says its Themis Co-pilot for Outlook helps recipients discern business email compromise attacks, reducing false positives for security staff.
AI is beefing up the cyber arsenals of both attackers and defenders Sponsored Feature Email is a popular target for cybercriminals, offering an easy way of launching an attack disguised as an innocent message. One moment of inattention on the part of the recipient and the door is open to malware, spam, phishing, perhaps even a dose of the dreaded ransomware. Entire organisations can suffer, not just individual victims.…
AI and phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) kits are making it easier for threat actors to create malicious email campaigns, which continue to target high-volume applications using popular brand names.