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Cyble Introduces Major Upgrade to its Executive Monitoring Module

Cyble upgraded Executive Monitoring in Cyble Vision, unifying impersonation, exposure, and mention findings with AI scoring and multi-channel alerting.

Cyble released a major upgrade to Executive Monitoring within its Cyble Vision platform, consolidating Mentions, Impersonations, Exposures, and a new Surface Mentions source (blog and news coverage) into a single findings stream. The release adds AI-generated verdicts and recommendations, per-executive Risk and Reputation scoring for board reporting, and richer onboarding with aliases, reference images, and addresses to cut same-name false positives. Alerting now supports data residency, bulk import, delivery via email, WhatsApp, and SMS, an Access API, and branded executive PDF reports; the upgrade is live with no customer action required.

CybleSep 10, 12:26 UTC · 7d agoTools

Teams calls are about to get a lot harder to fake

Microsoft will roll out Brand Impersonation Protection in Teams Calling from mid-May 2026, warning users about suspicious inbound VoIP calls impersonating trusted brands.

Microsoft Teams Calling is gaining Brand Impersonation Protection, which evaluates inbound VoIP calls from first-time external callers for signs of brand impersonation and displays warnings before users answer high-risk calls. The feature rolls out from mid-May 2026 with completion expected by late May 2026, is enabled by default, and requires no administrative action. Users can accept, block, or end flagged calls, and alerts may continue throughout a call if suspicious activity persists. Microsoft recommends preparing helpdesk teams and updating security awareness materials ahead of deployment.

Help Net SecuritySep 4, 08:04 UTC · 13d agoTools

Recorded Future Launches Digital Risk Protection, Unifying Brand and Identity Monitoring

Recorded Future launched Digital Risk Protection, unifying brand and identity monitoring across five external threat surfaces in one workflow.

Recorded Future announced Digital Risk Protection, combining brand threat monitoring and identity exposure monitoring across five use cases: malicious site, impersonation, code repository, dark web brand, and identity exposure monitoring. The platform includes an AI Triage Agent that automates alert evaluation with explicit verdicts and context, expanding social media analysis, OCR, full Telegram coverage, and infostealer log ingestion. Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant folded digital risk protection into cyber threat intelligence technologies, and the launch cites $15.9 billion in 2025 US fraud/scam losses, up 28% year over year.

Recorded FutureSep 9, 00:00 UTC · 8d agoTools

Keepnet launches free SMS/Call Reporter for iOS

Keepnet launched a free iOS app, SMS/Call Reporter, letting users one-tap report smishing and vishing into corporate incident response pipelines.

Keepnet released the free SMS/Call Reporter app for iOS, letting users report suspicious SMS and voice phishing with one tap. For enterprise customers, reports flow into Keepnet Incident Responder alongside email phishing reports. The company cites Verizon 2026 DBIR data showing mobile phishing simulations achieve a 40% higher median click rate than email, and FBI IC3 2025 counted $798 million in smishing and vishing losses. An Android version is planned.

Help Net SecuritySep 2, 00:00 UTC · 15d agoTools

Recorded Future Launches Impact and Metrics Dashboard

Recorded Future releases an Impact and Metrics Dashboard aggregating risk-reduction, detection, and analyst-efficiency metrics for customer leadership reporting.

The dashboard pulls data from a customer's environment, alerts, integrations, threat detections, and analyst activity into six metric areas: platform-wide security value, threat prioritization, threat detection, digital risk protection, account and credential monitoring, and Recorded Future AI and Insikt Group research usage. It is available now to all Recorded Future customers, who are advised to configure Priority Intelligence Requirements in Settings so reporting maps to their intelligence program. The vendor cites its 2025 ROI Report across nearly 300 customers reporting 351.3% annual ROI and says customers aligning alerting to PIRs identified new threats 65% faster.

Recorded FutureAug 24, 00:00 UTC · 24d agoTools

Product showcase: ScamNet looks for warning signs in suspicious calls and shady links

Synaptrex's ScamNet app filters scam calls, messages and websites on Apple devices using on-device AI and reputation checks.

ScamNet: Anti-Scam Suite from Synaptrex Technologies is a free consumer app (with ScamNet+ subscription) for iPhone, iPad and Mac that blocks robocalls and spam via iOS Call Blocking & Identification, filters unknown senders with an offline detection engine, and provides a Safari extension that analyzes and blocks suspicious websites. A Check/Report tool accepts phone numbers, websites, crypto addresses, text, images and audio, and a Device Shield verifies passcode, OS updates and screen-recording status.

Help Net SecurityAug 17, 00:00 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Tools