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BlueVoyant’s Threat Fusion Cell and SOC have been tracking a significant and persistent social engineering campaign that cleverly exploits trusted communication channels to gain initial access to target networks. Since at least mid-October 2025, BlueVoyant has observed a consistent playbook where threat actors employ inbox sabotage as a pretext for highly convincing IT support impersonation over Microsoft Teams.

Today’s financial institutions face evolving threats on a global scale. Online attackers without expertise (known as ‘script kiddies’) have had access to as-a-service malware for quite some time. AI is being weaponized for social engineering attacks at unprecedented speeds. And along with the potential of monetary rewards, today’s thefts also involve taking something that’s often even more profitable: Data.

On November 13, 2025, Anthropic disclosed the first known case of an AI agent orchestrating a broad-scale cyberattack with minimal human input. The Chinese state-sponsored threat actor GTG-1002 weaponized Claude Code to carry out over 80% of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign autonomously. This included reconnaissance, exploitation, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration across more than 30 major organizations worldwide. The impact was real. And the AI was in control.

AI attacks pose real risks for companies because of their ability to scale and automate attacks like brute force attacks, smarter malware, deep fakes and advanced phishing. Attacks that were once slow, manual and easy to spot are now becoming faster, more sophisticated and harder to detect. UK government research shows that 32% of UK businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the last year, and experts warn that AI could make this number rise significantly.

The global cyber threat landscape has accelerated beyond traditional defense, reaching a critical inflection point. Today, organizations are no longer battling isolated attackers; instead, they are confronting industrialized, financially motivated cyber syndicates that leverage cutting-edge technologies to maximize their impact. Moreover, the rise of AI in Cybersecurity has created both opportunities and threats.

Researchers at Push Security warn of an extremely convincing ClickFix attack posing as a Cloudflare verification check. ClickFix is a social engineering technique that tricks the victim into copying and pasting a malicious command, then running it on their computer. In the instance observed by Push Security, the phishing page has a pop-up box that appears to be from Cloudflare, instructing the user to press the keyboard shortcuts necessary to open a terminal and run a command.

Phishing has been a mainstay of cybercrime for decades – and for good reason. Threat actors continually evolve their phishing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), adapting the method with new tools and technologies to ensure it remains highly effective. IT leaders have become especially attractive targets: their privileged access amplifies the impact of a successful compromise.

NTLM Relay attacks should be history. Yet in 2025, they remain one of the most effective ways to compromise Active Directory. We first covered this problem back in 2020, when we wrote about a troubling vulnerability that refused to die: NTLM Relay attacks. At the time, many believed NTLM Relay attacks were a relic of the past, an old problem long solved by Kerberos and modern authentication protocols.