British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles before growing suspicious, prompting the UK embassy to alert the White House. The incident echoes a wider pattern of AI-enabled impersonation targeting senior officials.
Cl0p's extortion gang claims to have stolen 89 gigabytes of engineering data from Shell and listed nearly 50 companies, including Philips and GE, on its leak site. The likely entry point: a critical, patched flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM.
A Pune nurse lost $4,700 investing in a scheme promoted by a deepfake video of the late Ratan Tata, the latest case in India's wave of AI generated celebrity endorsement fraud that has cost some victims well over $100,000 apiece.
BNK Busan Bank and South Korea's financial regulator ran a two-day voice phishing prevention campaign at the Busan Sea Festival, distributing fraud warnings, hotline stickers and loss insurance to beachgoers as scammers increasingly target consumers through fake app installs.
Arctic Wolf Labs says a widespread adversary in the middle campaign is hijacking Microsoft 365 accounts across the US, Canada and Europe, bypassing MFA to read payroll and finance mailboxes for weeks at a time.