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Federal officials have reportedly examined Ivres, but the status of that inquiry is unclear.

KnowBe4 Threat Lab says an active phishing campaign is abusing multiple legitimate Google services to make malicious links appear trustworthy to security tools and victims alike.

Attackers route targets through Google properties, including Meet, Search, DoubleClick, Custom Search, Image Search, Tag Manager, and Analytics before reaching credential harvesting infrastructure.

The final phishing page is personalized in real time, pulling the victim organization's logo, website imagery, and email domain information to mimic a legitimate login portal.

The campaign also checks email domains and uses anti-analysis steps to filter out sandboxes and researchers.

Victims are then sent down one of two paths: credential theft with stolen passwords exfiltrated through Telegram or installation of ScreenConnect for persistent remote access.

KnowBe4 says the campaign's strength is that nearly every intermediate step looks legitimate, reducing the usefulness of simple domain-based blocking.

Australia's government plans to require social media platforms to let users over sixteen turn off algorithmic recommendations and instead see content only from accounts and groups they choose to follow.

And so...

They'll get a subscription to a service like KnowBe4, and they'll use it in its default configuration.

they'll check the box and they'll get on with their day.

Now that's the functional equivalent of something we talked about early on, which is throwing technology and money at a problem and ignoring the people and the process and the policy aspects of it.

Our guest is the legendary Perry

Carpenter, strategic leader at the well-respected global security awareness company KnowBe4.

And while most people are still treating deepfakes like a novelty or a content tool, attackers are treating them as part of their tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Perry has spent decades studying human behavior, deception, and how social engineering actually works.

But the technology has advanced so much that it's becoming commonplace.

Are you seeing...

And I want to ask you about what KnowBe4 is launching with, because I think it's brilliant.

Are you seeing or do you have a feeling that it's going to be very, very common, that it's like a multi-medium campaign, right? There might be a text, there might be one or two emails, a voice call, maybe a calendar invite to get on a Zoom or a Teams call.