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Research, analysis, and perspective on the evolving threat landscape, from phishing and brand impersonation to AI-generated fraud.

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Computer monitor displaying search results where a malicious phishing website appears above legitimate bank login results.

Threat Intelligence

July 7, 2026

Signal & Noise: Phishing Sites Are Outranking Your Login Page

The search box is a navigation layer people trust the way they used to trust SMS, and that trust is...

Industry Insights

June 18, 2026

Inside SPOOF ’26: What Our Annual Credit Union Brief Found

Our fourth annual credit union threat brief is out. The headline finding, that attackers reached one in three federally insured...

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Threat Intelligence

July 14, 2026

How Brand Impersonation Became a Cargo Theft Problem

The FBI says cyber-enabled cargo theft hit $725 million in 2025. The attack chain…

Threat Intelligence

July 9, 2026

What Darcula Reveals About Industrialized Smishing

A single platform gave 600 criminal groups the ability to impersonate 200 brands across…

Threat Intelligence

July 7, 2026

Signal & Noise: Phishing Sites Are Outranking Your Login Page

The search box is a navigation layer people trust the way they used to…

Illustration of a credential stuffing attack showing a login screen with stolen usernames and passwords flooding toward a successful account login.

Phishing

July 7, 2026

What Is Credential Stuffing?

Credential stuffing does not require guessing. Attackers use real passwords stolen from previous breaches,…

Threat Intelligence

July 1, 2026

What Google’s Fraud Advisory Reveals About Impersonation

Google’s June 2026 advisory catalogs five distinct attack techniques. Every one of them depends…

Threat Intelligence

June 30, 2026

When Breach Data Meets Booking Season

The Booking.com breach didn’t expose passwords or payment cards. It exposed something more useful…

Phishing

June 29, 2026

What Is Phishing as a Service?

Phishing as a service turns sophisticated attacks into a subscription product. For the brands…

Illustration of a spoofed bank phone call and a smishing text message shown on two smartphones, representing the difference between caller ID spoofing and SMS phishing attacks.

Phishing

June 25, 2026

Phone Spoofing and Smishing Are Not the Same Problem

Caller-ID spoofing and smishing texts are two different problems with two different solutions. Most…

App Protection

June 23, 2026

Google’s Play Store Changes and Rogue App Risk

Google is opening the Android ecosystem to third-party app stores on July 22, 2026.…

Phishing

June 23, 2026

How to Verify a Phishing Takedown Actually Worked

Your vendor says the site is down. Here are five reasons it might not…

Phishing

June 23, 2026

How Fast Should a Phishing Takedown Be?

The number most vendors advertise measures the wrong thing. Here’s how to evaluate takedown…

Industry Insights

June 18, 2026

Inside SPOOF ’26: What Our Annual Credit Union Brief Found

Our fourth annual credit union threat brief is out. The headline finding, that attackers…

Smartphone displaying a fraudulent E-ZPass toll payment text message surrounded by incoming SMS notifications, illustrating a smishing attack.

Phishing

June 17, 2026

What Is a Smishing Attack? How SMS Phishing Works

Smishing is phishing delivered by text message. It is the fastest-growing form of phishing,…

Social Media Protection

June 16, 2026

Social Media Brand Protection: A Guide for Security Teams

Your brand exists on every major social platform. So do the accounts impersonating it.…

Brand Protection

June 11, 2026

Retail Brand Protection: A Guide for Security Teams

Your brand is being used to steal from your customers. Retail brand protection is…

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