KnowBe4 — Volume 342, Issue 3

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Volume 342, Issue 3 · 11 articles from 2 issues

In This Issue


Direct Send: How Attackers Weaponize Your Infrastructure Against You (KnowBe4, Thursday, September 10th, 2026)

KnowBe4 Threat Lab examines abuse of Microsoft 365 Direct Send to deliver mail that appears internal. Read more

Attackers Use Passkey-Themed Phishing to Breach Cloud Environments (KnowBe4, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026)

Phishing campaigns exploit passkey enrollment flows to register attacker-controlled authenticators in cloud tenants. Read more

Warning: Slop Squatting Directs AI Users to Phishing Pages (KnowBe4, Monday, September 14th, 2026)

Attackers register domains matching hallucinated URLs that AI assistants invent, then host phishing pages there. Read more

FBI Alert: OAuth Consent Phishing Is Targeting Users of Messaging Apps (KnowBe4, Friday, September 11th, 2026)

The FBI warns of OAuth consent attacks granting account access without ever needing a password. Read more

The Workforce Has a Blind Spot, and It's Ringing (KnowBe4, Thursday, September 10th, 2026)

As email defenses improve, attackers are moving to the phone, where almost no organization trains or monitors. Read more

Social Engineering Campaign Uses Phony NDAs to Avoid Detection (KnowBe4, Monday, September 14th, 2026)

Attackers send fake non-disclosure agreements as lures because NDA attachments draw less scrutiny from filters and recipients. Read more

Alert: AI Is Accelerating Targeted Social Engineering Attacks (KnowBe4, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026)

KnowBe4 reports that generative AI is compressing the time and cost of building highly targeted social engineering attacks. Read more

Phishing Emails Use New Technique to Bypass Microsoft 365 Security Filters (KnowBe4, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026)

A new evasion technique lets phishing mail slip past Microsoft 365 filtering and reach user inboxes. Read more

Survey: Companies Cite Phishing as Their Top AI-Enabled Fraud Concern (KnowBe4, Friday, September 11th, 2026)

An Experian survey finds 60 percent of companies reporting higher fraud losses, with AI phishing the leading concern. Read more

Phishing Campaign Targets Employees With Malicious SVG Files (KnowBe4, Friday, September 11th, 2026)

SVG images carrying embedded JavaScript have become a rapidly growing phishing delivery method. Read more

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #37: Global Phishing Turns Google into a Trust Proxy (KnowBe4, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026)

KnowBe4's weekly roundup leads with phishing operations that route through Google services to borrow their trust. Read more


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