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The Rise of AI-Powered Attacks Threatening Crypto Trading Platforms

The Rise of AI-Powered Attacks Threatening Crypto Trading Platforms

Sep 3, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
AI has made it cheap and fast to generate convincing scam campaigns. With scam deposits rising 200% year-over-year and 60% of scam funds now tied to AI-enabled fraud, trading platforms are facing an industrialized wave of deception. What once required sophisticated criminal networks can now be automated by anyone with basic technical skills. Crypto crime drained $2.17 billion in H1 2025 alone, already surpassing 2024's total. While the ByBit hack took the headlines, analysts warn that AI-driven infiltration and phishing are eating away at platforms daily, in smaller but relentless amounts.
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cloudflare

Cloudy Summarizations of Email Detections: Beta Announcement

Aug 29, 2025 By Ayush Kumar In Cloudflare
Organizations face continuous threats from phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and other advanced email attacks. Attackers adapt their tactics daily, forcing defenders to move just as quickly to keep inboxes safe. Cloudflare’s visibility across a large portion of the Internet gives us an unparalleled view of malicious campaigns. We process billions of email threat signals every day, feeding them into multiple AI and machine learning models.
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Trustwave

Unraveling Phishing Campaigns Flagged by Trustwave's URL Scanner

Aug 28, 2025 By Karla Agregado In Trustwave
In recent months, Trustwave SpiderLabs, A LevelBlue Company, saw a significant increase in phishing URLs containing familiar patterns, similar phishing templates, and a resurgence in the use of email marketing platforms. The use of URL redirectors, along with the abuse of Amazon Web Hosting and Cloudflare services, was also widely observed. Trustwave operates a URL-scanning system that we call PageML.
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knowbe4

New Phishing Kit Bypasses MFA to Steal Microsoft 365 Credentials

Aug 28, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Attackers are using a newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform dubbed “Salty 2FA” to target a wide range of industries across North America and Europe, according to researchers at ANYRUN. The phishing attacks are delivered via email and primarily attempt to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. Like many popular commodity phishing kits, Salty 2FA is designed to bypass a variety of multifactor authentication measures.
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knowbe4

Threat Actors Are Increasingly Abusing Generative AI Tools for Phishing

Aug 22, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing AI-assisted website generators to quickly craft convincing phishing sites, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. In many cases, even when these services have safeguards in place to prevent abuse, criminals are able to bypass these measures in order to create phishing pages. Unit 42 tested a popular website generator to see how easy it was to spin up a spoofed website.
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knowbe4

New Homoglyph Phishing Campaign Impersonates Booking.com

Aug 21, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Attackers are using a Japanese Unicode character to replace forward slashes in phishing URLs, BleepingComputer reports. The attacks impersonate Booking.com with phony emails that inform users of a new login to their account. “The attack, first spotted by security researcher JAMESWT, abuses the Japanese hiragana character “ん” (Unicode U+3093), which closely resembles the Latin letter sequence '/n' or '/~', at a quick glance in some fonts,” BleepingComputer explains.
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knowbe4

Phishing Attacks Target Brokerage Accounts to Manipulate Stock Prices

Aug 21, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Professional phishing groups are targeting customers of brokerage firms in order to manipulate stock prices, KrebsOnSecurity reports. The attackers use a technique called “ramp and dump” to profit from the scheme. “With ramp and dump, the scammers do not need to rely on ginning up interest in the targeted stock on social media,” Krebs explains.
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knowbe4

That 'Urgent Payroll Update' Email is a Trap: A Look at the Latest HR Phishing Tactics

Aug 20, 2025 By Bex Bailey In KnowBe4
Phishing attacks impersonating HR are on the rise. Between January 1 – March 31, 2025, our Threat Lab team observed an 120% surge in these attacks reported via our PhishER product versus the previous three months. These attacks have remained at elevated levels since peaking in February. (FYI in our previous post, we explored the psychology that makes these attacks so effective.
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