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Developing Story: 153 Million Driver’s License Records Reportedly Surface on the Dark Web

An identity-verification vendor may be at the center of a breach affecting 153 million driver’s licenses. Here’s what we know, and why “is this ID real?” is no longer the only question that matters.

North Korean IT Workers Go Mainstream: A 10-Week Media Roundup

Timeline of North Korean IT worker coverage moving from podcasts and government warnings to the FBI, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News.

You have been warned: eleven governments just put the North Korean IT worker threat on the record

You have been warned: eleven governments just put the North Korean IT worker threat on the record.

Vishing Hit a Retail Help Desk for a Month. The Tell Was Never in the Voice.

Three vishing case files from one month at a retail help desk: every call sounded fine, and every flag came from the signals underneath it, not the voice on it.

Case Files from the Help Desk: A Month of Vishing (Q2 2026)

What does help desk vishing look like in the wild? Across 450 password reset attempts in one month, imper.ai surfaced coordinated impersonation patterns that individual calls alone would have missed.

Why impersonation detection just became its own category

Impersonation attacks have moved beyond isolated incidents into a security category of their own. New Gartner research recognizes impersonation detection across both workforce identity and hiring, reflecting a growing problem that traditional identity verification alone wasn’t built to solve.

What the Gartner SRM Summit Confirmed About the Identity Attack Surface

At Gartner SRM, one theme kept surfacing: organizations may have authentication covered, but identity is a different problem. Here’s what security leaders and new Gartner research revealed about the growing identity attack surface.

imper.ai Recognized in Redpoint’s 2026 InfraRed 100

imper.ai is proud to announce we’ve been recognized in Redpoint Ventures’ 2026 InfraRed 100 list.

Vishing is the fastest-growing way attackers are breaking in. Most security stacks cannot see it

Voice phishing is the #1 initial infection vector for cloud compromises in 2025. Here is why the existing security stack misses it, and what closes the gap.

Hiring Fraud: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door of Your Workforce

DPRK operatives are now embedded inside Fortune 500 payroll systems, hired through standard recruiting pipelines using AI-assisted personas, fraudulent identities, and infrastructure designed to bypass every check HR was built to run.

Solution Brief: Prevent malicious insiders infiltrating the workforce

Solution Brief: Protect your help desk from impersonation attacks

How a leading technology company uses imper.ai to prevent North Korean IT workers from infiltrating the workforce

How impersonation attacks succeed without fake content

Voice phishing is now the leading initial intrusion vector for cloud compromises and it’s routing around MFA through the help desk. Training doesn’t close the gap. Workforce identity verification does.

Solution Brief: Hiring Fraud Protection

Help desk vishing: why training isn’t the fix

Voice phishing is now the leading initial intrusion vector for cloud compromises and it’s routing around MFA through the help desk. Training doesn’t close the gap. Workforce identity verification does.

How a national retailer uses imper.ai to stop Scattered Spider vishing at the help desk

Four DPRK IT Workers Entered The Hiring Pipeline. Infrastructure-Layer Detection Stopped Them.

Four DPRK IT workers entered one hiring pipeline. Here’s the infrastructure-layer detection that stopped them before credentials were issued.

Detecting DPRK IT Workers: High-Confidence Network & Identity Indicators (Q1 2026)

Four DPRK IT workers detected in a single hiring cohort of 600. Network, device, and identity signals. Zero credentials issued.

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