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Malware still arrives as an email attachment someone opens without thinking. Be wary of .exe, .msi, .scr, scripts like .js or .bat, disk images like .iso, and any Office file asking you to enable macros. Unexpected attachment? Check with the sender another way before opening it.

People reported losing $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, per the FTC. That's someone pretending to be your bank, a supplier or your boss to get money moved. Never act on an out-of-the-blue message. Call them back on a number you already have.

FTC Data Show People Reported Losing $3.5 Billion to Imposter Scams in 2025 New data from the Federal Trade Commission reveal that people reported losing a staggering $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses increasing nearly three times since 2020.

Anyone with your meeting link can walk into your client call. In Zoom, Teams or Meet, turn on a waiting room so you approve who joins, add a passcode, lock the meeting once everyone's in, and limit screen sharing to the host. Don't post meeting links publicly.

The accounts you set up for a new starter on day one tend to stick around for years. Give them their own login, not a shared one. Give access to only what their job needs. Turn on MFA from the first login. It's easy to add access later and hard to take it back.

Police shut down SocGholish in June 2026, the fake 'your browser is out of date' pop-ups that infected thousands of businesses. They seized 106 servers and cleaned 15,000 hacked sites. The trick will come back, so teach your team: a real update never comes from a website pop-up.

Law enforcement hits SocGholish: 106 servers down, 15,000 sites cleaned - Help Net Security SocGholish, an operation that's been delivering malware to users via fake software updates, has suffered a major blow.

That contract you emailed is sitting in someone else's inbox forever, and it can be forwarded to anyone. For anything sensitive, share a link from OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox that only the named person can open, set it to expire, and switch it off when they're done.

If your guests, staff phones and work computers are all on the same wifi, they can all reach each other. One infected laptop sits right next to the machine running your accounts. Put guests and smart devices on separate networks. Most routers do this already.

Google put out an emergency Chrome update in June 2026 for a flaw attackers were already using. Just visiting a bad web page is enough to get hit, no clicking needed. Click the three dots, Help, About Google Chrome, then Relaunch. Updates only take effect once you restart.

Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now Google released security updates for 74 Chrome vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-11645, a high-severity V8 out-of-bounds memory access flaw.

From August 2nd 2026, the EU requires AI-generated content to be labeled, and it can apply even outside Europe if you have EU customers. If you use AI for images, video, or text the public sees, you might need to flag it. Worth a quick chat with whoever handles your legal side.

Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content This code of practice supports compliance with the AI Act transparency obligations related to marking and labelling of AI-generated content.

The old advice to spot a scam by its bad spelling is dead. AI now pumps out scam texts and fake websites that look perfect, right down to the logo. Judge a message by what it asks you to do. If it's rushing you to click, log in, or move money, stop. Go to the real site yourself.

Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing Google sued Outsider operators for allegedly using Gemini AI to create phishing pages tied to 1.59M URLs and 100K+ victims.