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An Attacker Broke Into One Ordinary Inbox. Copilot Did the Rest of the Work.
AI Phishing & Social Engineering

An Attacker Broke Into One Ordinary Inbox. Copilot Did the Rest of the Work.

Barracuda's red team compromised one unremarkable employee account, then used the victim's own AI assistant to find the CEO, bypass MFA and redirect a $247,500 wire.

August 21, 2026
A Million Phishing Emails Hid Nonsense Words to Fool the AI Guarding the Inbox
AI Phishing & Social Engineering

A Million Phishing Emails Hid Nonsense Words to Fool the AI Guarding the Inbox

Barracuda found over a million phishing emails hiding walls of junk text to fool AI email filters. The lure your staff sees is unchanged. The machine reads a different message.

July 27, 2026
A New Phishing Kit Beats Microsoft 365 MFA Without Stealing a Single Password
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A New Phishing Kit Beats Microsoft 365 MFA Without Stealing a Single Password

A 250-dollar-a-month kit called Kali365 walks past Microsoft 365 MFA without stealing a password. It tricks you into authorizing the attacker's device yourself.

June 18, 2026
Attackers Stopped Cracking Your Password. Google Says They Steal Your Login Session Instead.
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Attackers Stopped Cracking Your Password. Google Says They Steal Your Login Session Instead.

Google's June 2026 scams advisory shows phishing has moved past your password. Attackers relay your login in real time and steal the session cookie, walking straight past MFA.

June 14, 2026
A Booby-Trapped Web Page Can Turn Your ChatGPT Summary Into a Phishing Page
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A Booby-Trapped Web Page Can Turn Your ChatGPT Summary Into a Phishing Page

Permiso's ChatGPhish shows how a few hidden lines on any web page make ChatGPT render phishing links, fake alerts and tracking QR codes, all styled as its own answer.

June 7, 2026
Cryptojackers Just Added Your AI Assistant to Their Distribution Channel
AI Phishing & Social Engineering

Cryptojackers Just Added Your AI Assistant to Their Distribution Channel

Microsoft caught a cryptojacking gang seeding malicious download links inside AI chatbot answers. Here's how the lure works — and what your team has to change.

May 30, 2026
Why AI Phishing Emails Bypass Every Filter You Trust
AI Phishing & Social Engineering

Why AI Phishing Emails Bypass Every Filter You Trust

LLM-written phishing has none of the spelling errors or awkward phrasing security training warned you about. Here is the new shape of these attacks.

May 22, 2026

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