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The rise of large language models has made Generative AI a global phenomenon almost overnight. Despite the term first being coined in the 1950s, generative AI is everywhere now – dinner parties, billboards, podcasts and even your local supermarket.

CAPTCHAs, the simple tests we use to prove we are human, are increasingly being weaponized to trigger actions with hidden costs. Infoblox Threat Intel has uncovered fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into sending high volumes of international text messages, fueling a long-running fraud category called international revenue share fraud (IRSF).

Fake CAPTCHAs are not just about copying and pasting links to malware - they can also be about sending an SMS to an international number and being charged a whole lot for the privilege.

Infoblox CEO Scott Harrell joins JD Durkin on NYSE Floor Talk

Research from Infoblox reveals a massive Click2SMS fraud scheme using fake CAPTCHAs and back button hijacking to trick victims into sending costly international texts.

The release of NIST SP 800-81 Revision 3 marks a turning point in how organizations must think about DNS. Once treated as a background utility, DNS is now recognized as a critical layer of cybersecurity, resilience, and even future AI-driven infrastructure.

Cybersecurity professionals at SecureWorld Boston had a lot to say about identity management, AI threats and the challenges they face in achieving real-time visibility.

For years, the scam compounds of Southeast Asia have occupied an uncomfortable space in the global conversation about cybercrime: widely reported, frequently condemned by the United Nations, and yet frustratingly difficult to connect to specific acts of digital theft.

New research by Infoblox Threat Intel and Vietnam’s Chong Lua Dao identified an Android banking trojan likely operated from multiple locations, including Cambodia’s K99 Triumph City—previously flagged by the UN for large-scale scams and forced labour.

Infoblox Threat Intel and the Vietnamese nonprofit Chong Lua Dao tracked down the Android banking Trojan. This followed a spike in anomalous DNS traffic across Infoblox customer networks. It led to a previously undocumented malware-as-a-service platform.