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Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains

Gen Threat Labs followed two H1 2026 campaigns where attackers used legitimate accounts, browser settings and blockchain data as part of the attack path. The Gen Threat Report is a twice-yearly examination of the biggest cyber threats shaping the digital landscape, offering an in-depth look at the trends affecting consumers around the world. Gen's H1 2026 Threat Report has its share of headline numbers. Scams accounted for almost 46% of Gen threat detections in the first half of the year. Malvertising represented almost another 30%. Gen blocked 114.2 million e-shop scam attacks and 20.3 million tech support scam attacks during the same period. Those figures are useful, but they compress very different attacks into a handful of categories. A detection count does not show how the first lure…

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