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Why impersonation detection just became its own category

Voice phishing is now the #1 way attackers compromise the cloud and it’s routing around MFA through the help desk. Existing controls don’t close the gap. Workforce identity verification does.

By imper.ai

July 14, 2026

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

imper.ai

July 16, 2026

What the Gartner SRM Summit Confirmed About the Identity Attack Surface
What the Gartner SRM Summit Confirmed About the Identity Attack Surface

Voice phishing is now the #1 way attackers compromise the cloud and it’s routing around MFA through the help desk. Existing controls don’t close the gap. Workforce identity verification does.

imper.ai

June 11, 2026

imper.ai Recognized in Redpoint’s 2026 InfraRed 100
imper.ai Recognized in Redpoint’s 2026 InfraRed 100

Voice phishing is now the #1 way attackers compromise the cloud and it’s routing around MFA through the help desk. Existing controls don’t close the gap. Workforce identity verification does.

imper.ai

May 27, 2026

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

Voice phishing is now the #1 way attackers compromise the cloud and it’s routing around MFA through the help desk. Existing controls don’t close the gap. Workforce identity verification does.

imper.ai

May 19, 2026

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

imper.ai

May 12, 2026

How impersonation attacks succeed without fake content
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.

imper.ai

May 5, 2026

Help desk vishing: why training isn’t the fix
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.

imper.ai

April 28, 2026

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

imper.ai

April 13, 2026

The Real-Time Impersonation Blind Spot
The Real-Time Impersonation Blind Spot

AI impersonation exploits real-time trust gaps traditional defenses miss. Workforce IDV verifies human authenticity in live interactions, blocking key threats fast.

Gil Levonai

December 18, 2025

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