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Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.

Updated 08/29 with details of a phishing campaign that’s using particularly hard to detect attack methodologies.

It’s important to note, however, that Kaspersky security researchers have put this rise down to an increase in fraudulent activity and not any decline in vigilance on the part of the targeted users., a new and worrying ongoing phishing campaign targeting more than 130 U.S. organizations has been identified.

Although not new in and of themselves, the use of social engineering techniques that are outside the focus of most traditional security tools such as calls and messages to user’s smartphones does further obfuscate the phishing activity. As the researchers pointed out, unless these users actually report the receipt of the calls or messages then security teams will be none-the-wiser.

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