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NYDFS has told regulated financial entities, in writing, to train staff against help-desk vishing attacks. Combined with the fully effective Part 500 amendment and a record enforcement run, targeted social-engineering training is now a supervisory expectation in New York.
New 2026 survey data shows one in four Americans received an AI deepfake voice call in the past year - and nearly as many doubt they could spot one. The defense is a policy, not an ear.
The Luna Moth extortion crew escalated sharply in May and June 2026: an FBI FLASH alert, a leak site listing roughly 100 victims, reported $20 million ransom demands and attackers walking into law firm offices in person.
A vishing crew is calling employees as fake Microsoft IT staff and walking them through a bogus Entra passkey enrollment - then registering the attacker's own passkey for persistent access. The weak point is the enrollment moment, not the passkey.
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.
A new criminal toolkit called ATHR bundles AI voice agents, phishing emails, and real-time credential harvesting into a single browser-based platform. Here's how vishing-as-a-service is reshaping social engineering and what your organization can do about it.