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Lead Analysts: Lucy Gee and James Dyer Cybercriminals want their payday. Unfortunately for the targets of phishing (and the organizations they work for) that means they’re constantly refining their tactics to create more sophisticated attacks that are harder to detect – by both email security products and people.

76% of organizations are struggling to keep up with the sophistication of AI-powered attacks, according to CrowdStrike’s latest State of Ransomware Survey.

In the complex ecosystem of financial services, some of the greatest threats come from within. While cybersecurity for financial institutions often focuses on external threat actors, the reality is that insider risks—whether intentional or accidental—pose an equally dangerous challenge to regulatory compliance and organizational integrity.

The integration of artificial intelligence into the modern workplace represents a paradigm shift in productivity and innovation.

These days it can be hard to tell if something is or isn’t a scam.

Researchers at Bitdefender warn that scams are seeing a steady increase globally. Citing a recent report from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), the researchers note that 57% of adults worldwide have reported encountering a scam in the past year, and 13% encounter a scam at least once per day. One in four adults lost money to a scam, and annual global scam losses now exceed  $1 trillion.

It can happen to the best of us.  This story happened a decade ago, when I was working at a Fortune 10 company. “Smartest” is subjective, but most of my former coworkers and external customers agreed the guy involved in this story was seen as the “smartest” guy around.

A phishing campaign is impersonating Google Careers to target job seekers, according to researchers at Sublime Security.

A phishing campaign is impersonating LastPass and Bitwarden with phony breach notifications, BleepingComputer reports.