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Threat Intelligence

June 8, 2026

Signal & Noise: Finding & Applying Phishing Fingerprints that Survive Infrastructure Rotation

What the attack looks like from the victim's seatYou get an email that looks like it's from your HR or...

Deepfake executive impersonation using AI-generated identities to deceive organizations

Disinformation Security

January 20, 2026

What Is Disinformation Security? Gartner’s Emerging Category Defined

Disinformation security protects organizations from deepfakes, brand impersonation, and synthetic fraud. Gartner predicts 50% enterprise adoption by 2028.When Patrick Hillmann...

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Threat Intelligence

June 9, 2026

Why Retail Impersonation Peaks in Summer, Not the Holidays

Most retail brand protection programs staff up for Black Friday. The data says the…

Threat Intelligence

June 8, 2026

Signal & Noise: Finding & Applying Phishing Fingerprints that Survive Infrastructure Rotation

What the attack looks like from the victim’s seat You get an email that…

Brand Protection

June 3, 2026

Brand Protection Strategy: Five Steps to Build Your Program

You know your brand is being impersonated. The question is whether your response is…

Brand Protection

June 3, 2026

Online Brand Protection: A Guide for Security Leaders

Your brand exists across dozens of digital surfaces you do not control. Online brand…

Vintage poison bottle labeled Search Result Poisoning representing Bing SEO poisoning attacks where phishing pages rank above legitimate websites in organic search results.

Threat Intelligence

June 2, 2026

When Bing’s Organic Search Results Become Phishing Pages

Attackers are manipulating Bing’s organic search results to place phishing pages above the brands…

Brand Protection

May 28, 2026

E-Commerce Brand Protection: Stopping Fake Storefronts

Online retail fraud costs merchants $48 billion a year. For the brands being impersonated,…

Phishing

May 27, 2026

What Is a Social Engineering Attack?

Social engineering is the practice of manipulating someone into taking an action they wouldn’t…

Floating WhatsApp icon with an alert badge surrounded by messaging app icons on a smartphone screen representing messaging app scams and impersonation attacks.

Brand Protection

May 26, 2026

WhatsApp Scams: The Brand Protection Gap in Messaging

Your brand is being impersonated in WhatsApp conversations you will never see. For two…

Phishing

May 21, 2026

How to Spot a Phishing Email: Why It’s Getting Harder

The warning signs you learned still matter. They just no longer cover most of…

Phishing

May 19, 2026

What Is a Vishing Attack?

Vishing is voice phishing: fraud conducted by phone. It is also the brand impersonation…

Top-down cinematic view of an FBI investigation desk with an AI fraud case file surrounded by documents, notes, and investigative materials.

Threat Intelligence

May 18, 2026

$893 Million in AI Fraud: What the FBI’s New Category Reveals

For the first time in 25 years, the FBI broke out AI-related fraud as…

Dark Web

May 15, 2026

Signal & Noise: The Caller Had All the Right Answers

The call that started everything The detail about the M&S breach that sticks with…

Brand Protection

May 14, 2026

What Is Brand Protection?

Every day, attackers borrow the names of companies their targets trust. Brand protection is…

Pattern of laptop screens displaying fake e-commerce storefronts representing large-scale fraudulent online shopping networks and scam marketplaces.

Threat Intelligence

May 13, 2026

BogusBazaar: How 75,000 Fake Stores Survive Takedowns

A single criminal operation built an infrastructure-as-a-service model for fake e-commerce. The architecture explains…

Small community credit union building under a spotlight between two large corporate bank towers representing fraud risk targeting smaller financial institutions.

Industry Insights

May 12, 2026

The Fraud Risk Built Into the Credit Union Mission

Credit unions were chartered to serve members of modest means. The members they serve…

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