Best of the Worst: Weekly Phishing Attack Recap | IRONSCALES
We just launched something we've wanted to do for a long time ... Read More
IRONSCALES Winter ’26 Release: Preemptive Email Security
A few months ago, I wrote about the Phishing Renaissance and how AI hasn't invented new attack types so much as perfected the classics. Credential theft, vendor impersonation, executive fraud. Same playbook, exponentially better execution ... Read More
The Emails Hitting K-12 Right Now
I'm heading to the National K-12 Cybersecurity Leadership Conference in Albuquerque this week. It's the kind of event where IT directors, network admins, and technology coordinators gather to compare notes on what's actually hitting their districts (not theoretical threats, but the emails that landed in inboxes last Tuesday) ... Read More
Why We Commissioned the Osterman Trust Research (And What We Found)
When we started working with Osterman Research last year on this trust study, I had one clear goal...I wanted the freedom to ask the specific questions that would validate (or challenge) what we'd been seeing in our threat data and what I'd been writing about in our Phishing 3.0 thought ... Read More
Why QR Codes Are Education’s New Phishing Blind Spot
Quick...where do you see QR codes on your campus? ... Read More
2025 Magic Quadrant for Email Security – What Gartner Said (and What it Means)
If you read my Buyers Look at More Than Dots piece after last year's Gartner Magic Quadrant, you know I'm not here to obsess over dot placement ... Read More
Zoom’s AI Avatar Watermark Is Security Theatre (And Attackers Already Know It)
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan recently used his AI avatar to open a quarterly earnings call. In the top right corner of the video, a small badge appeared: "CREATED WITH ZOOM AI COMPANION." ... Read More
The Phishing Renaissance, How AI Brought Back the Classics
I've been giving talks lately about the evolution of phishing attacks - tracking them from the Nigerian Prince emails of 1993 all the way to today's deepfake video calls. It's a fun trip down memory lane, filled with AOL phishing scams and QR code zebras (long story). But here's what ... Read More
Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Two Email Scams Every Student and Parent Should Know About
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and for campus IT teams, that means more than patching servers and updating firewalls. It means protecting students who've never encountered sophisticated phishing attacks, international students unfamiliar with US financial aid processes, and families trying to navigate school payments online ... Read More
2025 Report – Deepfakes and the Confidence Problem
We just wrapped our second annual deepfake threat report, and one number stood out:99% of security leaders say they’re confident in their deepfake defenses ... Read More
