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The Scattered Spider Playbook: Why Airline Loyalty Accounts Are Prime Targets for ATO

Mar 13, 2026 By Julian Agudelo In Memcyco
Scattered Spider–style attacks increasingly target airline loyalty accounts, where stolen credentials can be used to hijack frequent flyer accounts and redeem miles for fraud. Investigations associated with the Scattered Spider ecosystem show how attackers manipulate impersonation campaigns, phishing infrastructure, and account recovery workflows to gain control of customer accounts. For airline security teams, the lesson is not limited to one threat group.
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How Scammers Use Travel SIM Sales to Steal Identity Documents

How Scammers Use Travel SIM Sales to Steal Identity Documents

Mar 12, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Most organisations spend serious money on firewalls, endpoint protection, and threat monitoring. Yet one of the most commonly exploited attack surfaces gets far less attention: the APIs quietly running underneath almost every modern application. APIs are the connective tissue of today's digital infrastructure. They allow apps to talk to each other, enable third-party integrations, and power the real-time data exchanges that businesses depend on daily. They are also a favourite target for attackers who know that many organisations have not secured them properly.
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What is Smishing in Cybersecurity and How to Prevent it?

Mar 11, 2026 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Cybercriminals are increasingly using sophisticated techniques such as smishing to exploit mobile users. Smishing is a type of scam conducted through SMS (Short Message Service). Attackers use this method to get people to give up private information or click on harmful links. This fraudulent method exploits the speed and trust people place in text messages by pretending to be a trusted organization, such as a bank or the government.
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Introducing Persona's candidate verification solution: Stop AI-powered candidate fraud before it reaches your workforce

Mar 11, 2026 By Jenna Kim In Persona
Hiring has never been easy. But in the last year, it’s taken on an entirely new level of complexity. Fake candidates have become one of the most urgent problems facing HR, talent, and InfoSec teams alike. Today’s recruiters are flooded with AI-generated resumes that are nearly impossible to distinguish from legitimate candidates. When fake candidates make it to interviews, the tactics escalate with deepfakes used to impersonate people and proxy stand-ins for technical assessments.
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How to Detect Account Takeover Attempts in the First 5 Minutes

Mar 9, 2026 By Ezra M. In Memcyco
Most ATO detection tools are watching the wrong moment. Attackers don’t start at your login page – they start days earlier, registering lookalike domains, cloning your site, and harvesting credentials before your stack sees a single signal. Knowing how to detect account takeover means moving detection upstream: to the reconnaissance stage, the cloning event, and the live harvesting window. That’s where the attack is stoppable.
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Effective Account Takeover Mitigation Playbook: Real-Time ATO Response Framework

Mar 6, 2026 By Ezra M. In Memcyco
Account takeover mitigation is the process of detecting, containing, and preventing unauthorized access to user accounts before financial or reputational damage occurs. Effective mitigation depends on real-time detection, rapid response, and automated playbooks. Modern account takeover attacks execute in minutes. Credentials are harvested in real time through phishing, reverse proxy phishing, and man-in-the-middle techniques. Attackers often attempt login seconds after a user submits credentials.
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