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Phishing uses deceptive messages to steal credentials or deliver malware, while user verification, MFA, and email filtering reduce the risk.

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Phishing is deceptive communication—by email, text, phone, or a fake website—that impersonates a trusted person or service to make someone disclose credentials, approve a transaction, reveal sensitive information, or run harmful software. Attackers use it to bypass technical controls by persuading a legitimate user to perform an action, and may target employees, customers, administrators, or suppliers.

Its impact can include account takeover, unauthorized payments, exposure of personal or business data, and access to internal systems. The most effective control for stolen-password phishing is phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, such as hardware-backed passkeys or security keys, which binds authentication to the legitimate site. Organizations should also filter and authenticate messaging where possible, use password managers, restrict risky actions, train users to verify unusual requests through a separate channel, and provide rapid reporting so suspected credentials or sessions can be revoked.

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Dutch police suspect local hackers behind the Odido breach that exposed 6M customers after a phishing attack and seek public help identifying them. Dutch police have identified strong indications that Dutch nationals were involved in the February 2026 cyberattack on telecom provider Odido, which resulted in data from more than six million customers being stolen […]

Security Affairs 13 Jul 2026, 9:18 p.m. Incident · 3 stories Breach Cyberattack Exposure Hacking Netherlands Phishing Theft

Armored Likho APT uses AI-generated malware, phishing, and BusySnake Stealer to target governments and power grids in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. Kaspersky’s threat research team has documented a previously unknown APT group they’re calling Armored Likho, also tracked under the name Eagle Werewolf. The group runs two parallel tracks: financially motivated attacks against private individuals […]

Security Affairs 7 Jul 2026, 8:28 p.m. Incident · 3 stories Advanced Persistent Threat Antivirus Artificial Intelligence Brazil Kaspersky Kazakhstan Malware Phishing Research Russia

FBI warns Russian spies now target Signal Backup Recovery Keys, enabling access to message history and long-term account takeover. The FBI and CISA updated their March 2026 warning about Russian intelligence phishing campaigns, and the new advisory adds a detail that wasn’t in the original: the operators have shifted their primary objective from stealing verification […]

Security Affairs 28 Jun 2026, 4:08 a.m. Incident · 5 stories Backup CISA FBI Phishing Russia Theft Warning

Microsoft warns of a phishing campaign targeting the hospitality sector with fake guest emails that install TonRAT using resilient persistence. Microsoft Threat Intelligence published a detailed analysis on an ongoing hacking campaign against hospitality organizations that has been running since April 2026. The targets are specific: device names observed across compromised environments include strings like […]

Security Affairs 28 Jun 2026, 3:20 a.m. Incident · 3 stories Compromise Hacking Microsoft Phishing Warning

Despite a 2025 patch, Russian-linked groups still exploit a WinRAR flaw (CVE-2025-8088) to deploy malware via phishing archives. CVE-2025-8088 is a path traversal flaw in WinRAR that lets an attacker write files outside the extraction directory using NTFS Alternate Data Streams. WinRAR fixed it in version 7.13 in July 2025. Nearly a year later, Trend […]

Security Affairs 11 Jun 2026, 1:34 a.m. Incident · 4 stories Actively exploited CVE-2025-8088 Advanced Persistent Threat CVE Exploit Fixed Flaw Malware Patch Phishing Russia
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Meta Accuses NSO of Violating WhatsApp Court Injunction

Meta says NSO violated a court injunction by targeting WhatsApp users again through phishing campaigns and test accounts. Last year, WhatsApp won a landmark case against NSO Group, the Israeli spyware vendor behind Pegasus, and secured a permanent court injunction barring the company from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users again. The court was unambiguous: […]

Security Affairs 9 Jun 2026, 8:42 a.m. Incident · 6 stories Facebook Israel NSO Group Phishing Spyware Vendor

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Security Affairs 1 Jun 2026, 2:32 a.m. Theme · 7 stories Email Journalist Leak Phishing

Attackers are texting Signal users posing as Support, asking for backup recovery keys. Once obtained, they can decrypt the entire message history, not just future chats. A phishing campaign is currently targeting Signal users with text messages that impersonate Signal Support and ask them to hand over their backup recovery key. The message looks urgent, […]

Security Affairs 30 May 2026, 9:25 p.m. Incident · 5 stories Backup Journalist Phishing Theft