Cybersecurity Awareness Trends 2026

Key cybersecurity awareness trends shaping security culture in 2026

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is observed in October in the United States and marks a period of heightened awareness activity across Europe, which makes now a good moment to take stock of how security awareness is changing. The discipline keeps evolving quickly — what the biggest human risks are, what gets in the way of good…

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ClickFix Attacks and the Rise of User-Initiated Compromise

DIESEC featured image: User at computer with ClickFix attack warning - professional cybersecurity blog illustration

User security awareness traditionally focuses on a narrow set of failure modes: things like don’t open unexpected email attachments or don’t enter your credentials into random websites. Those lessons have been drilled in repeatedly (and to a large extent, they’ve worked quite well). But with ClickFix attacks, there is a different social engineering exploitation at…

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