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A blue verification badge is supposed to signal trust. In this campaign, that trust became the bait. Hornetsecurity’s Threat Intelligence Lab recently analyzed a phishing campaign impersonating Facebook/Meta and targeting French-speaking Facebook Page owners and administrators. The campaign was initially distributed through the abuse of Google’s AppSheet platform, helping the phishing emails appear more trustworthy. Instead of relying on a classic “your account will be suspended” scare tactic from the start, the lure begins with a more positive pretext: the recipient’s Page is allegedly eligible for an official verification badge.

This edition of the Monthly Threat Report focuses on industry events from the month of May 2026. As a news and commentary edition, this month’s report prioritizes depth on emerging threats and industry research over statistical data sections. 

The next iteration of Anthropic’ s Large Language Model (LLM) called Claude Mythos was announced on the 7th of April 2026 (after an accidental leak on March 26th). Unlike previous frontier LLM models being released publicly, Anthropic decided to provide invite only access for select companies because of its extraordinary ability to find and write exploits for software vulnerabilities.