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CyberheistNews Vol 16 #03 [New Scam] AI Deepfakes Religious Leaders to Steal Your Money

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Feed Name: KnowBe4 Blog

Threat Score
68/100

Date Published: 2026-01-20

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

Author: KnowBe4 Team

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# Executive summary This newsletter reports several active social-engineering and phishing threats: AI-generated deepfakes impersonating religious leaders to solicit donations, large phishing campaigns abusing Google-hosted infrastructure to bypass email defenses, and attackers exploiting mail routing/misconfigurations (and PhaaS platforms like Tycoon2FA) to spoof internal messages and harvest credentials; it highlights impacts on organizations and individuals and recommends user training and defensive controls.

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