CyberheistNews Vol 15 #06 Phishing Up 76% – Deepfake Attacks Surge: Is Your Org the Next Target?

The KnowBe4 CyberheistNews bulletin reports a sharp rise in phishing (up 76%) and deepfake-enabled fraud, highlights QR-code and open-redirect misuse for brand impersonation, warns of agentic AI increasing ransomware scalability, and cites a Cisco Talos phishing campaign that delivers PureCrypter and the TorNet backdoor (via .tgz attachments and a .NET loader) targeting users in Germany and Poland; the newsletter emphasizes combining technical defenses with user training and URL whitelisting to mitigate these threats.