The Real-Time Impersonation Blind Spot: Why Analysts are Urging CISOs to Adopt New Detection Categories Now
TL;DR Impersonation in real-time channels (phone, video) is today’s most critical, unmanaged security risk because traditional defenses lack the necessary “trust intelligence” to verify human authenticity instantly. Leading research from Gartner, SACR, and Google confirms that threat groups like Scattered Spider have pivoted to vishing (voice phishing), relying on the ease of impersonating high-value employees […]
Trust is the new attack vector. imper.ai starts here
Today, we’re launching imper.ai and are proud to finally share the work we have been building. For Anatoly, Rom, and me, this moment was shaped by our experience in offensive cyber. Attackers now find it easier to exploit trust than to discover a zero-day. It’s simpler to manipulate a conversation than to deploy malware. Modern […]
Phishing has moved on. Have your defenses?
For a long time, email was the center of gravity for social engineering defense. In fact, organizations built entire security programs around it. Phishing simulations, DMARC enforcement, link-scanning tools and layers of filtering that defined how risk was managed. And for a while, that approach worked. Email was where attackers lived, and the industry responded […]
The rise of fake help desk calls
A help desk agent answers an incoming call. On the other end, “Sara” sounds rushed, apologetic – and extremely plausible. She knows the internal project names. She references a recent outage. She even uses the same casual phrases Sara always uses. She just needs a quick password reset. It happens to all of us at […]