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Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you
Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at first.
- August 14, 2025
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Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at first.
- August 14, 2025
- 10:23 AM
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When Theft Replaces Encryption: Blue Report 2025 on Ransomware & Infostealers
Ransomware and infostealers are winning on stealth, not encryption. Picus Blue Report 2025 reveals just 3% of data exfiltration attempts are stopped. Find and fix your biggest exposure gaps before they're exploited.
- August 14, 2025
- 10:01 AM
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- August 14, 2025
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New Whitepaper: The Evolution of Phishing Attacks 
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Modern phishing has changed a lot in the past decade or so. The most sophisticated attacks — the ones that usually hit the headlines in the form of major breaches — come with a host of anti-analysis and obfuscation techniques making them increasingly difficult to detect.
Get the whitepaper to learn about modern phishing detection evasion techniques and how to counteract them.
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Microsoft fixes Windows 11 24H2 updates failing with 0x80240069 error
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- August 14, 2025
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- August 13, 2025
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- August 13, 2025
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- August 13, 2025
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Spike in Fortinet VPN brute-force attacks raises zero-day concerns
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- August 13, 2025
- 12:42 PM
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- August 13, 2025
- 12:42 PM
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Pennsylvania attorney general's email, site down after cyberattack
Microsoft removes PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11, Windows Server
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- August 13, 2025
- 08:24 AM
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- August 13, 2025
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- August 13, 2025
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- August 13, 2025
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Claude gets 1M tokens support via API to take on Gemini 2.5 Pro
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- August 12, 2025
- 06:13 PM
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- August 12, 2025
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