What Is Phishing? A Complete Guide to How It Works and Why It Succeeds
Phishing is the reason most data breaches start with a click, not a hack. Before ransomware runs, before credentials get stolen, before an attacker ever touches a network, someone usually has to be fooled first. That is what phishing does, and it remains, by a wide margin, the most common way attackers get their first […]
What Is a FileFix Attack? The ClickFix Variant That Fakes a File Explorer Window
ClickFix taught attackers a valuable lesson: if you can convince someone to run a command themselves, you do not need malware, a link, or an attachment. FileFix takes that same lesson and moves it somewhere organizations have far less ability to control. Instead of the Windows Run dialog, which IT teams can restrict with a […]
Top 10 Deepfake Video Call Scams: Real Cases and How Attackers Combine AI, Phishing, and Social Engineering
A phishing email used to be the whole attack. Now it is often just the opening move. Attackers increasingly combine a suspicious email or message with a follow-up phone call or video meeting in which the “executive” on the other end looks and sounds exactly like the real person, generated in real time by AI. […]
What Is Device Code Phishing? How Attackers Bypass MFA Without a Password
Multi-factor authentication is supposed to be the safety net that catches a stolen password. Device code phishing gets around it without ever touching a password, and without technically breaking MFA at all. The victim enters a code, approves a login, and completes their own multi-factor challenge exactly as they normally would. The problem is who […]
ISO 27001 Certification Cost Australia: 2026 Price Breakdown
If you are budgeting for ISO 27001 certification in Australia, the price range is wide mainly because most published figures quote only the certification body’s audit fee, not the full first-year program. Below is a fast, all-in view of what Australian organisations are paying in 2026, plus where security awareness training and phishing simulation reporting […]
How Attackers Research Targets Before a Spear Phishing Campaign
By the time a spear phishing email lands in someone’s inbox, the attacker has often already spent hours, sometimes just minutes with AI tools, learning who that person reports to, what project they are working on, which software their team uses, and how their CEO writes an internal announcement. None of that research touches a […]
Whaling Attacks: Why Executives Need Different Phishing Training
In January 2024, a finance employee at the engineering firm Arup joined a video call with who appeared to be the company’s CFO and several senior colleagues. Every face looked right. Every voice sounded right. The employee authorized 15 wire transfers totaling 25.6 million dollars. Every person on that call was a deepfake. Six months […]
Spear Phishing Training: How to Test Employees Against Targeted Attacks
Most phishing emails go out by the thousand, hoping a small percentage of recipients click. Spear phishing works the opposite way. It targets one person, or a small group, using details specific enough to make the email feel real: a project name, a vendor relationship, a manager’s actual writing style. When the target is a […]
What Is Smishing? How to Simulate and Test SMS Phishing Attacks
A text message claiming to be a delivery update, a bank fraud alert, or an unpaid toll notice. It looks routine. It is often anything but. Smishing, short for SMS phishing, has quietly become one of the highest-yield attack channels available to scammers, and most organizations still have no idea how their employees would respond […]
What Is Vishing Simulation? How Voice Phishing Training Platforms Work
Introduction Most phishing simulation programs still test one thing: whether an employee clicks a fake link in an email. That leaves a growing hole. Attackers now pick up the phone. A vishing simulation platform closes that hole by testing how employees respond to a phone call, not just an email, using the same safe, controlled […]
