The Human Factor: Social Engineering in 2026
Despite decades of investment in technical security controls, social engineering remains one of the most consistently effective attack vectors precisely because it targets human psychology rath...
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The Human Element: Why Social Engineering Remains the Most Effective Attack Vector
Technical security controls have advanced dramatically over the past decade, making direct exploitation of software vulnerabilities increasingly difficult and expensive for attackers. In respon...
Deepfake CEO Fraud Costs UK Businesses £340 Million in First Half of 2026
AI-Powered Deepfake Fraud Costs UK Businesses £340 Million in Six Months as Business Identity Compromise Eclipses Traditional BEC Business Email Compromise fraud supercharged by AI-generated deepfake...
Cybersecurity Awareness Training That Actually Works: Moving Beyond Compliance Checkboxes
Security awareness training has been a standard fixture of enterprise security programs for decades, but its effectiveness has been the subject of ongoing debate. Traditional annual compliance-...
Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Law Advances in Congress: New Standards for Power and Water Sectors
The U.S. Congress has advanced landmark critical infrastructure cybersecurity legislation that would for the first time establish mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards for the power gri...
AI-Driven Phishing Achieves 4x Higher Click Rates: Traditional Email Security Fails to Detect
The cybersecurity email security landscape has been fundamentally disrupted by the emergence of AI-generated phishing campaigns that achieve click-through rates more than four times higher ...
DriveSurge Campaign Hijacks Thousands of Websites for ClickFix and FakeUpdate Attacks
A large-scale malicious campaign called DriveSurge has been documented by Dark Reading researchers, revealing the compromise of thousands of legitimate websites to distribute ClickFix and F...
Deepfake Attacks Surge 1,500%: IBM Warns Detection Tools Cannot Keep Pace with Generation Capabilities
The battle against deepfake content has taken a decisive turn in the wrong direction, according to IBM Security's latest analysis. Logged instances of deepfakes used in security incidents have ...
India Reports 78% Surge in Cyberattacks on Banking Sector, CERT-In Mandates 6-Hour Reporting
India's Financial Sector Under Siege: CERT-In Reports 78% Surge in Cyberattacks as AI-Driven Fraud Reshapes the Threat Landscape India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has reported a 78 p...
