While cyber fraud continues to rise, generative AI’s increasing role in fraud is something risk-aware CFOs should monitor.

In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed ...

Microsoft researchers catches Russia’s Star Blizzard hackers spear-phishing with QR codes and WhatsApp group chats. Microsoft researchers have uncovered Russian intelligence agencies using ...

Security experts have discovered a new spear-phishing campaign orchestrated by Russian state-backed threat actors against ...

Pronounced “fishing,” the term evokes the image of an angler throwing a baited ... Hodgson notes that spear phishing contrasts with a “mass blast” of the same type of email to a whole ...

These attacks are often given accompanying names: Spear phishing, Whale phishing, Smishing, Vishing, and email phishing. Thanks to modern impersonation techniques, spearheaded by various ...

One of the most notable trends in phishing is the use of personalized and targeted attacks, known as spear phishing. Unlike traditional phishing, which casts a wide net, spear phishing targets ...

The aim was to find out how well LLMs are able to carry out personalized phishing attacks – so-called spear phishing. The results were surprising. The 101 participants were divided into four groups.

The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims' WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a ...