Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims

Groups of hackers are breaking into large U.S. financial firms to steal sensitive data and extort victims, Google’s security researchers report.

Scam Uber emails are targeting users with fake payment alerts

A convincing fake Uber email claims your payment method has expired. Here’s how to identify the phishing scam before it steals your payment details.

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

Scammers used Gemini AI to power a massive phishing operation and Google just sued them

A Chinese scam network used Google’s Gemini AI to flood millions of phones with fake texts and build over 9,000 phishing websites, prompting a landmark Google lawsuit.

WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order

The messaging giant announced that it disrupted a phishing campaign targeting its users with NSO’s spyware.

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.

From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Signal messenger wants to protect you from phishing with these new in-app changes

Signal has rolled out new in-app safety features to help users spot and avoid phishing and social engineering attacks, including scammers posing as Signal itself.

FBI announces takedown of phishing operation that targeted thousands of victims

Cybercriminals allegedly used the W3LL phishing kit to target more than 17,000 victims worldwide, stealing their passwords and multi-factor authentication codes.

QR code traffic scams sound clever – but they’re deeply concerning

New phishing scams are using QR codes in fake traffic violation texts to steal personal and financial data.