DeepLoad Malware Uses ClickFix and WMI Persistence to Steal Browser Credentials
Ravie LakshmananMar 30, 2026Threat Intelligence / Browser Security A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a...
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Tax Search Ads Deliver ScreenConnect Malware Using Huawei Driver to Disable EDR
Ravie LakshmananMar 24, 2026Endpoint Security / Social Engineering A large-scale malvertising campaign active since January 2026 has been observed targeting...
LeakNet Ransomware Uses ClickFix via Hacked Sites, Deploys Deno In-Memory Loader
The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial...
Hackers Pose as IT Staff in Microsoft Teams to Install Malware
Image: sapannpix/Adobe Microsoft Teams impersonation and social engineering tactics are being used in an ongoing campaign to deliver a stealthy...
Twitter suspended 800 million accounts last year – so why does manipulation remain so rampant?
X, Elon Musk's social media site that many people (me included) still prefer to call Twitter, has told British MPs...
DoJ Seizes $61 Million in Tether Linked to Pig Butchering Crypto Scams
Ravie LakshmananFeb 27, 2026Financial Crime / Social Engineering The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the seizure of...
Is Poshmark safe? How to buy and sell without getting scammed
Like any other marketplace, the social commerce platform has its share of red flags. It pays to know what to...
AI Agents Are Quietly Redefining Enterprise Security Risk
Image: GoldenDayz/Envato A new social network called Moltbook launched in late January with a premise that should unsettle every CISO...
Moltbook is Dangerous, but Scale Doesn’t Match the Hype: Zenity
Moltbook, the highly popular Reddit-style social network designed exclusively to enable AI agents to communicate, launched in late January...
Moltbook is Dangerous, but Scale Doesn’t Match the Hype: Zenity
Moltbook, the highly popular Reddit-style social network designed exclusively to enable AI agents to communicate, launched in late January...
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Context-Based Attestation: A Practical Approach to High-Confidence Identity Verification
From hiring and onboarding fraud to service desk social engineering, attackers increasingly exploit identity workflows with stolen identities, forged...
Fake CAPTCHA Scam Tricks Windows Users Into Installing Malware
Image: edhardie/Unsplash A new social engineering campaign is abusing fake CAPTCHA verification pages to trick Windows users into launching StealC...
Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting...
Helpdesk Impersonation: A High-Risk Social Engineering Attack
The post Helpdesk Impersonation: A High-Risk Social Engineering Attack first appeared on StrongBox IT. *** This is a Security Bloggers...
McAfee Report: In the AI Slop Era, Americans Spend Weeks Each Year Questioning What’s Real
Merriam-Webster’s word of 2025 was “slop.” Specifically, AI slop. Low-effort, AI-generated content now fills social feeds, inboxes, and message threads....
