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Signal & Noise Issue 005 on Allure Security research into 2,200 domains linked to phantom banks and manufactured trust.

Threat Intelligence

August 20, 2026

When Fraud Needs a Bank: Inside an Ecosystem Built to Manufacture Trust

An exact search for the phrase “one of the largest digital banking providers” in the source code of publicly available...

Threat Intelligence

August 6, 2026

Agentic AI and the New Impersonation Surface

AI agents are now transacting, browsing, and making decisions on behalf of real people. They are also being spoofed, deceived,...

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Threat Intelligence

August 20, 2026

When Fraud Needs a Bank: Inside an Ecosystem Built to Manufacture Trust

An exact search for the phrase “one of the largest digital banking providers” in…

Dark Web

August 19, 2026

How the Dark Web Supply Chain Powers Brand Impersonation

A phishing page impersonating your brand is the last thing that gets built. By…

Laptop compromised by infostealer malware stealing login credentials

Dark Web

August 18, 2026

Infostealers: The Malware Behind the Credential Economy

Every credential dump, every underground marketplace listing, every phishing campaign that feels personal starts…

Patient portal phishing attack targeting healthcare login credentials

Threat Intelligence

August 12, 2026

When Patient Portals Become Phishing Pages

Healthcare was the FBI’s most targeted critical infrastructure sector in 2025. The attack chain…

Man-in-the-middle attack intercepting a multi-factor authentication prompt

Phishing

August 11, 2026

How Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Evolved to Bypass MFA

Man-in-the-middle attacks have been a networking concept for decades. The modern version, adversary-in-the-middle phishing,…

The AISI Incident involving an AI agent autonomously conducting an impersonation and social engineering campaign

Threat Intelligence

August 7, 2026

The AISI Incident: AI’s First Impersonation Campaign

During a routine UK cyber evaluation, an AI agent researched real people, created fake…

Threat Intelligence

August 6, 2026

Agentic AI and the New Impersonation Surface

AI agents are now transacting, browsing, and making decisions on behalf of real people.…

Brand Protection

August 5, 2026

The Brand Impersonation Problem Driving Ecommerce Fraud

Ecommerce fraud prevention has focused on payment fraud, chargebacks, and bot attacks. The fastest-growing…

Threat Intelligence

August 4, 2026

Australia Made Brand Protection a Legal Requirement

The Scams Prevention Framework requires banks to monitor for brand impersonation and execute takedowns.…

Threat Intelligence

July 30, 2026

When Your Brand Becomes a Casino Ad

Scammers are running paid social media ads claiming that banks, retailers, and streaming services…

Threat Intelligence

July 29, 2026

The SpaceX IPO Became a Brand Impersonation Event

Eight months before SpaceX filed its S-1, scammers were already building fake investment portals…

Illustration of a corporate helpdesk phone beside a corporate single sign-on (SSO) login portal, representing BlackFile's vishing attacks that impersonate IT support to steal employee credentials.

Threat Intelligence

July 28, 2026

BlackFile: Extortion Without a Single Phishing Email

BlackFile has demanded seven-figure ransoms from retail and hospitality companies since February 2026. Its…

Phishing

July 23, 2026

How Domain Spoofing Powers Brand Impersonation

Domain spoofing is the foundation most brand impersonation attacks are built on. Understanding how…

Threat Intelligence

July 22, 2026

What Crypto’s Impersonation Surge Means for Every Brand

The fastest-growing category of crypto fraud in 2025 was not a protocol exploit or…

Broken piggy bank with cryptocurrency coins and a digital wireframe hammer representing pig butchering scams and fake crypto exchange fraud.

Online Fraud

July 21, 2026

Pig Butchering Scams: How Fake Exchanges Steal Billions

Pig butchering is the most financially damaging fraud category the FBI tracks, and at…

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