Fortra’s Alexis Ober was featured in The Hacker News article, “Smishing Triad Linked to 194,000 Malicious Domains in Global Phishing Operation.” The piece explores an ongoing large-scale campaign attributed to a China-linked threat group known as Smishing Triad. Alexis shared insights on how these attackers are evolving to exploit brokerage accounts and manipulate markets through “ramp and dump”...

John Wilson, Senior Fellow of Threat Research at Fortra, dives into the state of DMARC adoption across the top 10 million domains. He explains how SPF, DKIM, and DMARC work together to prevent email spoofing, the dangers of misconfigurations like “+all,” and why few organizations enforce strong DMARC policies even years after the standard’s introduction. Wilson shares key research findings, real...

In a new IT Security Wire podcast, Cary Hudgins discusses what he sees as the most devastating and prevalent emerging threats facing enterprises today.

Fortra’s latest research uncovers a new wave of executive phishing attacks leveraging QR codes, carried out by the Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) group Tycoon2fa.

Business email compromise (BEC) scams are on the rise, and Fortra's latest research is helping organizations stay informed. Newsbreak recently featured our June 2025 findings.

Fortra Intelligence & Research Experts (FIRE) are calling attention to a phishing campaign that impersonates well-known companies like Nvidia, Glassdoor, and Red Bull to lure job seekers into handing over personal data.

In Unite.AI, Fortra's Rohit Dhamankar explores how asymmetric innovation is driving the next major shift in email security, with AI-generated social engineering attacks that exploit trust instead of code.

Fortra's John Wilson was quoted in the Q1 2025 APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report for his insights on how business email compromise (BEC) scammers are increasingly using Cloudflare to register malicious domains.

The Register reports that ransomware group SafePay claimed responsibility for a multi-day outage at Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest tech distributors.

A new article in AI Journal explores how phishing attacks are becoming harder to detect and how AI is helping organizations respond.

A recent phishing campaign analyzed by Fortra’s Suspicious Email Analysis team used a unique mix of methods to bypass detection and reach inboxes.

Fortra threat researchers recently uncovered a stealthy phishing campaign and a growing phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation.

In this article for Unite.AI, Alexis Ober outlines how attackers are leveraging Vishing-as-a-Service to industrialize social engineering and what organizations can do to stay ahead.

Cybernews covered new research from Fortra that reveals how SheByte, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, is exploiting a market gap left by LabHost’s takedown.

Fortra Threat Hunter Zach Travis is featured in a new Computing Security article on the growing complexity of email security.

In a video interview with Help Net Security, Threat Intel Analyst Alexis Ober breaks down how PlugValley is lowering the barrier to entry for cybercriminals and what it means for defenders.

In Investopedia's latest article, cybersecurity experts break down how the 401(k) scams work and what you can do to protect your retirement savings.

In his latest article for Security Magazine, Nick Oram explains how initial access brokers (IABs) are fueling the rise of ransomware attacks.

Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups continue to evolve, leveraging initial access brokers (IABs), affiliate programs, and dark web marketplaces to increase the scale and success of their attacks.

A recent MSN article highlights how fraudsters are ramping up tax-related scams.