What makes phishing so effective is the psychological pressure scammers build into every message. They create urgency — your account will close, a delivery failed, or suspicious activity needs ...

A new report out today from Barracuda Networks Inc. has detailed how phishing attacks grew more sophisticated and harder to detect in 2025 thanks to the rapid evolution of phishing-as-a-service kits ...

You get an email from a service you use, letting you know that your account is closing. Better click the link before it’s gone! Sounds legit, but if you click the link, you could be a victim of one of ...

Twenty years ago, hackers breached organizations by finding and exploiting holes at the network perimeter. To stop them, security teams focused on locking that perimeter down, creating a “hard, ...

In recent weeks, online attackers have successfully targeted UC Santa Cruz employees and students with email phishing attempts, compromising more than 300 user accounts so far. Information Technology ...

Here's one group that's leveraging generative artificial intelligence tools successfully: cybercriminals. Since the fourth quarter of 2022, there's been a 1,265% increase in malicious phishing emails, ...

In recent months, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified email campaigns using lures around W-2, tax forms, or similar ...