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Former US Air Force members behind million-dollar BEC scheme head to prison

Two men who ran BEC and phishing campaigns against US businesses while serving in the Air Force have been sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison. According to public documents and evidence presented at sentencing, Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu, 25,

1 min read 3 views Sep 30
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ip-obfuscation

IP Obfuscator A security testing toolkit for generating obfuscated IP addresses and URLs. Useful for penetration testing, security research, phishing awareness training, and testing URL parsers/filt

1 min read 3 views Sep 29
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Phishing Abuses RMM Tools for Persistent Access

Microsoft observed phishing campaigns that abused MSP360 RMM to deploy ScreenConnect, creating redundant remote-access channels for follow-on activity

1 min read 5 views Sep 29
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How I Handle Fan Mail and Requests, 2026 Edition

I get fan mail, which I think is awesome. Also, in the world we live in, which includes “AI”-generated scams and other phishing expeditions, it’s necessary to set some expectations as to how I handle fan mail and also requests from fans. Here’s how I’m going

1 min read 3 views Sep 29
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Star Blizzard refines phishing and malware delivery with the RedFlick technique

Since January 2026, Microsoft has observed Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard evolve their detection evasion capabilities through large-scale phishing campaigns, the use of accounts on compromised websites, and a novel malware delivery technique, tracke

1 min read 3 views Sep 29
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Former US Air Force members sent to prison over BEC attacks

Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns.

4 min read 4 views Sep 29
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antipluto added to PyPI

Anti-Phishing Lexical Utilities and Threat Observation A unified framework for email dataset preprocessing, PII masking, synthetic data generation, and semantic-stylometric phishing classification.

1 min read 3 views Sep 29
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Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal

Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability: Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their accounts on other devices, such as laptops or desktop computers. Germany’s Cus

1 min read 4 views Sep 29
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Jamtara Director Returns to Netflix with a Treasure-Hunt Series Starring Vijay Varma, Rahul Bhat and Richa Chadha

Following the success of Jamtara Sabka Number Ayega, the true-events-inspired crime drama about a phishing and cybercrime ring in an eastern Indian state, Netflix India is reuniting with director Sou

1 min read 3 views Sep 29
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⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats

A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems

1 min read 4 views Sep 28
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Cybersecurity training doesn’t work – here’s why

Research shows cybersecurity training rarely changes behavior or stops phishing. Here's why compliance courses fail - and what actually reduces risk instead.

1 min read 3 views Sep 28
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The devil is still in the email – but wearing a new mask

Many of today’s phishing attempts are no longer betrayed by poor grammar, a sketchy URL or a crude login page. To be sure, it does still pay to look out for these red flags, but their absence doesn’t

1 min read 3 views Sep 28

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