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North Korean operatives are using deepfakes and synthetic identities to get hired at Western firms. Unit 42 built a convincing fake candidate in about 70 minutes. Here is how to vet remote hires.
PCI DSS v4.0 raised the bar for security awareness, naming phishing and social engineering explicitly. Here is what the standard now requires if you handle card data.
Thread hijacking lets attackers reply inside a real email conversation, with a familiar subject, history, and trusted sender. It defeats the 'unknown sender' instinct. Here is how to spot it.
Attackers are phishing payroll portal logins and impersonating staff to reroute direct-deposit paychecks into accounts they control. The FBI has warned about it for years - here's how HR can stop it.
Phishing has moved out of the inbox and into Microsoft Teams, Slack, and calendar invites — platforms employees trust by default. Here is how the attacks work and how to extend your defenses to cover them.
"Are you available? I need a quick favor." It's the opening line of a gift card scam impersonating your CEO - low-tech, high-volume, and aimed at new and junior staff. Here's the pattern and the one rule that stops it.
A trusted supplier emails to say their bank details have changed. Pay the new account and the money is gone. Here is how vendor email compromise drives invoice fraud — and the verification controls that stop it.
Scattered Spider doesn't hack your MFA — it calls your help desk and talks an agent into resetting it. Here's how help desk social engineering works and how to lock the door.
Attackers can now clone an executive's voice from three seconds of audio and join a video call as a synthetic colleague. Here's how deepfake CEO fraud works and how to stop it.
ClickFix tricks users into pasting a malicious command into their own computer under the guise of a CAPTCHA or 'fix this error' prompt. Here's why it bypasses your filters and how to train against it.
The FBI is warning fans that criminals are spoofing FIFA's ticketing site ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Here is why event-themed lures land in employee inboxes and how to train your team to spot them.
Bitdefender's Operation Road Trap research shows how toll, parking, and traffic-fine smishing has scaled across countries. Here is what employees and security teams should watch for.