AI platform ATHR makes voice phishing a one-person job

2026-04-20T14:51:50Z2de191f78d1d9da22eeeb013fc22cd5f02bb2db8d6a5513c83c369eb84f2cfe4
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What happened

A set of security news highlights: ATHR — an AI-driven voice‑phishing platform — is being sold (~$4,000 + revenue share) that spoofs alerts (Google, Microsoft, Coinbase), embeds callback numbers and routes victims to human scammers or AI voice agents, enabling one‑person fraud operations. Boost Security published SmokedMeat, an open‑source framework that executes attacker chains against CI/CD pipelines to demonstrate post‑exploit actions (credential theft, runner compromise, cloud access). A researcher disclosed multiple Microsoft Defender zero‑days (including “RedSun” and “UnDefend”) with all

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2026-04-20T14:51:50Z
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