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You can add verified AI skills to your LinkedIn profile. Certifications proving you know how to use the latest tools. This shows progress, but it is only half the problem. While we are getting very good at verifying what people know, we still have almost no way to verify how they behave. In hiring, we obsess over skills and experience, and ponder cultural fit. We run background checks. We validate credentials.

Organizations are rapidly deploying autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents that can make decisions, execute tasks and interact directly with systems without constant human oversight. That shift is driving investment, with the global agentic AI in cybersecurity market projected to grow to $322.39 billion by 2033. The surge represents enormous gains in efficiency and agility — and also signals a dramatic increase in risk.

AI-generated fraud schemes are now the dominant type of fraud, according to a new report from AU10TIX. AI-assisted forgeries overtook physical manipulation for the first time, as these tools allow attackers to fool humans and technology with very little manual effort.

Email is one of the primary ways people share information, connect with customers and get work done. It is also one of the easiest channels for risk to slip in. A mistyped address, an exposed attachment, a missed opt-out, or a rushed response to a phishing message can all lead to serious problems. That is why email compliance matters. It helps define how your organization handles email, what is allowed and how to report on activity when something goes wrong.

Imagine you give an AI agent permission to triage support tickets. A few weeks later, it’s accessing a system no one intended it to reach, putting the data within at risk of exposure or misuse. Nothing dramatic happens at the moment. That’s what makes the risk tricky. AI agents don’t wait for approval the way traditional systems do, and they move faster than the controls you’ve set around them.

Google recently released Device-Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) for Google Chrome and Google Workspace. It is a long-awaited new security enhancement to fight back against local cookie theft. But, yes, it can still be hacked and phished. Nothing alone in cybersecurity is a complete panacea.

Researchers at Malwarebytes warn that a fake ChatGPT download site is delivering malware. The attackers use sponsored results and SEO manipulation to target users who search for “ChatGPT download.” The phishing page is a convincingly spoofed version of the legitimate ChatGPT website, which delivers malware tailored to Windows or Mac users.

We’re proud to share that KnowBe4 has once again been recognized as a leader in cybersecurity, receiving six 2026 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards across our platform. These awards are especially meaningful because they’re based entirely on customer feedback—making them a direct reflection of how our customers view the value and impact of our partnership.

Spam and phishing are often used interchangeably in email security, but they serve distinct purposes and carry varying levels of risk. Understanding the difference between spam vs. phishing helps organizations better recognize threats and respond appropriately. This guide breaks down how spam and phishing differ, how to identify each, and what steps organizations can take to reduce risk.

Cyberattacks are now the top concern of leading CEOs, overtaking fears over geopolitical turmoil or inflation, the Wall Street Journal reports. A survey by the Conference Board and the Business Council found that 65% of CEOs at blue-chip companies cited cyberattacks as their top worry in the second quarter of 2026, an increase from 56% in Q1 2026.

As Japan navigates the mid-point of the decade, its cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Driven by escalating geopolitical tensions and the rapid proliferation of agentic AI, the nation is shifting its focus from purely technical defenses to a broader strategy of "Cognitive Security" and national resilience. The emergence of a hybrid workforce - where human employees work alongside autonomous AI agents - has redefined the traditional enterprise perimeter.

Threat actors are increasingly using AI-enabled social engineering to get around technical security measures, according to a new report from Visa. Social engineering attacks were behind the largest number of losses in the second half of last year. “From July to December 2025, Visa identified nearly $1 billion in scam-related activity, making scams the single largest category of consumer payment fraud,” Visa says.

As reported in the latest Phishing Threat Trends Report (Vol. 7), attackers are increasingly using calendar invites to bypass traditional email defenses, with this vector surging 49% over the past six months. In this Threat Labs deep dive, our team goes behind the scenes to provide a detailed analysis of this escalating campaign. We break down the technical underpinnings and tactical shifts in a unique multi-vector attack that turns your trusted corporate schedule into an instrument of compromise.

The era of "typing into a box" is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to Martin Kraemer, KnowBe4’s CISO Advisor for Europe and the Middle East, that dynamic has shifted. We have moved from asking AI questions to giving AI jobs. In a recent webinar, Martin explores the transition from AI tools to AI agents.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called “Kali365” is targeting OAuth tokens to gain direct access to users’ Microsoft 365 accounts without stealing credentials or multifactor authentication codes. “Through the Kali365 platform subscription, cyber threat actors can capture ‘OAuth’ tokens and gain persistent access to targeted individuals/entities' Microsoft 365 environments,” the Bureau says.

Businesses increasingly identify cyber risk as a core operational concern. Yet many cyber incidents still stem from basic, preventable vulnerabilities such as susceptibility to phishing, weak passwords, unpatched software and misconfigured systems. Insurers can play an important role in helping to raise firms’ cybersecurity hygiene and enhancing overall cyber resilience. However, cyber insurance penetration in certain market segments and regions remains low.

Scammers are increasingly targeting athletes with advanced social engineering attacks, the Guardian reports. The Guardian cites a recent report from Ernst & Young that found that athletes and teams have lost nearly $1 billion to fraud over the past twenty years, and more than 40% of these losses were reported in the past six years.

Scammers are taking advantage of the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine to exploit people’s emotions, according to researchers at ESET. “Geopolitical turmoil often leads to human misery, which tends to pull at the heartstrings,” ESET says. “Legitimate charities may solicit donations to help their efforts to support innocent citizens caught in the crossfire.

Scammers are using legitimate hotel booking details to craft targeted phishing attacks, WIRED reports. Victims are far more likely to fall for a phishing attack if a message contains real information that they wouldn’t expect a scammer to know. According to researchers at Norton, this phishing campaign is targeting customers of at least 350 hotels and vacation rentals across 50 countries.

At the World Economic Forum cyber meeting in Geneva recently, I had an interesting conversation with Vinh Nguyen, who is a strategic security advisor and Senior Fellow for AI at CFR. I wanted to know from him how he sees runtime governance in agentic AI working out practically and what approaches actually work. One of the challenges he mentioned was that yes, we need runtime governance to provide continuous and real time assurance that agents are doing what they are supposed to be doing.