The Ultimate Guide to Phishing
A curated American edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Phishing.
What to know about Phishing
Phishing, a pervasive form of cybercrime, continues to evolve in sophistication and scale, posing significant risks to individuals and organisations worldwide. This tag gathers extensive insights into phishing tactics, including traditional email scams, spear-phishing, SMS phishing (smishing), and emerging AI-assisted attacks that exploit human vulnerabilities and trusted brand impersonations.
Recent stories highlight the increasing frequency and complexity of phishing attacks, such as operations targeting specific sectors like finance, industrial engineering, and healthcare. Reports reveal how cybercriminal groups adapt by leveraging multi-factor authentication exploits, brandjacking, and sophisticated social engineering to compromise credentials and infiltrate networks.
Readers exploring this tag will gain valuable understanding of how phishing attacks are conducted, who the most vulnerable targets are—from individual contributors to C-suite executives—and what measures organisations and individuals can take to mitigate risks. The tag also delves into cybersecurity solutions, training programs, and industry collaborations designed to bolster phishing resistance, emphasizing the critical role of combining technology, awareness, and proactive defense to combat this ever-changing threat landscape.
American Phishing News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Doppel names ex-Xerox exec as Chief Security Advisor
The hire gives the cybersecurity firm a seasoned customer-facing adviser as enterprises grapple with more convincing phishing and impersonation attacks.
Netcraft wins five more top US banks as takedowns rise
Banking groups are increasingly paying for rapid removal of phishing and impersonation scams as AI-driven attacks spread across multiple channels.
Red Sift brings OnDMARC to Microsoft Sentinel Marketplace
Microsoft security teams can now ingest email authentication signals in one place, helping spot phishing and spoofing sooner during investigations.
AI fraud fears rise as payment scams hit finance teams
Finance teams are losing money to payment scams as generative AI makes fake invoices, emails and voice requests harder to spot.
Passpack launches iOS app & Chrome password extension
Mobile and browser access should cut risky workarounds for small businesses still sharing logins through texts, notes and spreadsheets.
VanishID launches AI tool to cut identity attack risk
Businesses are being warned that publicly exposed staff data can now fuel phishing and deepfake fraud without breaching internal systems.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Phishing
Financial firms face rising AI cyber risk, survey says
Financial services breach risk rises as AI adoption surges
KnowBe4 wins Frost & Sullivan email security award
Phishing costs rise to USD $51,948 per analyst yearly
Gartner says 40% of governments will create TrustOps
Featured News
Expert Columns
Cyber security now starts at the job interview
SOCtoberfest: The four habits that stop most attacks - passwords, MFA, phishing and patching
SOCtoberfest Kickoff: The 7 Deadly Sins of Cybersecurity Meet CISA's Core Steps
Why AI-Written Phishing Is Outpacing the Native Filters Built to Stop It
The Hidden Risks of Bandwidth Sharing
The invisible trust layer: Why payments are becoming a systems problem
Why financial services now leads email deliverability
AI does not invent cyber risk, it accelerates it
Cyber hygiene 101: The big fundamentals
While OT security is maturing, risk is not slowing down
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Recent Phishing News
Candescent adds Memcyco to its banking marketplace
Banks and credit unions gain earlier warnings on phishing and account takeover as Candescent adds Memcyco to its marketplace.
Binance hack warns firms on compromised work laptops
Businesses should rethink laptop security after Binance said a work device may have opened the door to a USD $6.3 billion theft.
Acronis warns awareness gap leaves users open to hacks
Basic cyber hygiene is still patchy, with 35% of people not backing up data regularly as phishing and AI-driven attacks keep rising.
Scams overtake phishing as attacks grow shorter-lived
Scam detections nearly doubled to 6.4 million as criminals shifted to faster-moving fraud that can evade takedowns and hit consumers directly.
Google uncovers brief AOMEI supply chain malware attack
Systems that polled AOMEI's update servers at the wrong moment could have pulled malicious files in the brief April-to-July tampering window.
Hotejka scam network uses free hosting to target users
Researchers say the scheme has run since 2017, exposing users to fake Microsoft alerts and remote access theft through legitimate hosting tools.
Workforce identity attacks hit 91% of firms, study says
Most organisations now face employee identity attacks, with phishing and stolen credentials pushing insider risk into boardroom-level concern, a survey finds.
CrowdStrike finds AI agents running autonomous cyberattacks
CrowdStrike found four threat actors using AI agents to automate cyberattacks, compromising healthcare, government and private-sector organisations.
Proofpoint joins Microsoft ICES in Defender portal
Microsoft 365 customers can now review Proofpoint email threat alerts inside Defender, cutting the need to switch between security tools.
Global cyber attacks jump 48% as phishing rises
Organisations faced 2,803 attacks a week on average in September as phishing and ransomware added to pressure on corporate and public sector systems.
Jev AI lookalike domains surge after launch, UpGuard warns
Users could have prompts, files and API keys stolen as 167 lookalike domains linked to Jev were registered within 13 days of launch.
ThreatDown ties criminal AI storefronts to OpenRouter
The discovery suggests takedowns may be fleeting, as criminals can quickly rebuild AI storefronts using the same rented routing layer and models.
Secure.com says ransomware budgets should fix basics first
Most attacks still start with weak credentials, unpatched systems or phishing, so the firm says budgets should shore up basics before AI fears.
Ledger launches Atom security device for AI & crypto
It is aimed at people approving payments, identities and AI tasks on mobiles, with hardware controls designed to block spyware and mistakes.
Australia targeted in massive phishing network takedown
Financial, healthcare and public-sector organisations face less immediate pressure after a disruption effort hit a phishing network sending more than 1 billion malicious messages.
Identity-led intrusions drive cyber extortion tactics
Attackers are exploiting trusted identities and collaboration tools to steal data and extort victims, leaving defenders with only brief windows to react.
Memcyco updates PoSA to spot attacker devices earlier
Fraud teams can now flag suspicious devices before login, as PoSA v1.11 adds real-time risk scores to help stop account takeovers earlier.
Check Point warns of 48% rise in cyber attacks worldwide
Sensitive data exposure through workplace AI is compounding a 48% annual rise in attacks, with organisations hit by 2,803 per week in September.
Dashlane expands SIEM integrations with browser telemetry
The move aims to close a browser visibility gap, giving security teams earlier warning of risky logins and phishing without another console.
China-linked TA419 targets US AI policy experts in phishing
Researchers say the phishing campaign could expose sensitive thinking on AI regulation, export controls and supply chains in Washington.
