Summer Release 2025 - Zero-click phishing removal

Introducing our release headliner: Search & Destroy, the automated way to remove phishing threats. Supporting acts: Spear Phishing Agent, deepfake attack training, dubbed SAT videos, and HRIS integrations.

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June 4, 2025
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Search & Destroy: auto-delete hidden phishing threats

When phishing campaigns strike, they strike hard. All they need is one distracted victim.

Email filters help. People reporting phishing messages helps more. But something always slips through, leaving your business vulnerable to someone clicking a malicious link.

Search & Destroy completes your protection. It deletes phishing emails from inboxes all across your organization — even the ones that users haven’t spotted.

Search & Destroy is built for lean security teams that demand fast and powerful protection with minimum effort. It’s easy to roll out, integrating right into Hoxhunt’s phishing incident management. Quick actions and automations cut phishing mitigation time from days to minutes.

Search & Destroy’s mission: preventing harm. When a user reports a suspicious message, Search & Destroy activates. It searches for all similar messages across the organization and removes them before they can do harm. Inboxes are cleaned without any action required from security admins or inbox users.

Applied threat intelligence with safe email removal

Attackers can’t outsmart you. Search & Destroy uses Hoxhunt’s threat clustering algorithm to uncover efforts to mask phishing messages. Our threat intelligence finds and deletes hidden phishing emails that basic queries miss. No need for multiple searches for message variations.

One search is all it takes: Search & Destroy finds and deletes phishing emails and their variations that basic queries miss. The only missing feature? Showing mercy.

Your data is safe. Search & Destroy respects record-keeping policies . Email are soft-deleted, ensuring data retention, easy review and restoration, and peace of mind.

Take command of Search & Destroy with manual mode. Run the search on-demand, review and validate results, and hand-pick the emails to delete.

Phishing messages are reported. Search and Destroy activates, finds other messages, and deletes them.
When users report suspicious messages, Search & Destroy finds related unreported messages across your organization and removes them before they cause harm.

Inbox clean-up that doesn’t rest

Search & Destroy never sleeps, so you can. Step away from work with the assurance that automated Search & Destroy works around the clock to remove phishing threats.

Newly reported phishing campaigns activate Search & Destroy automatically. Save time and turn reactive response to proactive protection. Focus on validation, not manual inbox cleanup.

Seach & Destroy is now available in our response product suite.

Learn more about Hoxhunt for security teams

Summer Release, the second act

While Search & Destroy takes the spotlight, we’ve also released powerful new features and enhancements across the platform. Check out the top picks.

Train against hyper-personalized phishing attacks with the Spear Phishing Agent

Social engineers using AI and LLMs to scale up hyper-personalized phishing attacks. Our research shows AI now outperforms humans in phishing.

It’s time to fight AI with AI. Our Spear Phishing Agent generates advanced, targeted phishing simulations to train employees again AI-crafted threats.

Go beyond templated phishing simulations

Agent-created simulations unlock a new level of personalization that template-based simulations can’t capture.

Unlimited unique simulations

The Spear Phishing Agent generates completely new simulations for each user. The Agent identifies its target, analyzes the context, plans the attack.

It crafts a hyper-personalized phishing email purpose-built to persuade the target. It’s exactly how social engineers are deploying AI—but for training.

The Spear Phishing Agent integrates seamlessly into Hoxhunt's phishing training engine. Both agent-created and template-based simulations are served to users.

Advanced training turns into advanced resilience

Users who are trained on advanced AI attacks understand the modern dangers. Hyper-personalization and realism blur away the familiar phishing email cues and indicators. Users deepen their focus to question the premise of the message, increasing their alertness and keeping you secure.

The Spear Phishing Agent is available in our Adaptive Phishing Training’s advanced mode.

Immersive deepfake attack training like never before

Your boss call you on Teams with an urgent request. It’s their face and their voice. Why would you suspect anything?

It’s fake. The face is virtual, the voice is cloned. Even the Teams call controlled by the attacker.

This is our Deepfake Attack Simulation.

Our custom attack service brings awareness and experience-based training on the future’s biggest social engineering threat.

What’s in the simulation:

  • A custom phishing email luring the target into a video call
  • Video deepfake of a manager, executive or other authority including voice cloning
  • A mock video call page prompting the target to take the urgent action

After the experience, Hoxhunt provides in-depth training on all the modern dangers simulated in the attack.

The deepfake attack simulation includes a phishing email, a fake video conferencing environment, and a phishing link.
Users are lured into a video call where their "boss" presents an urgent request with a link. Can they resist the click?

A safe space to question authority when things feel off

Deepfake Attack Simulations train on deepfake threats in a safe, controlled environment.

Users learn to identify advanced social engineering tactics. When suspicious requests have superficial credibility, users train to dig deeper before compromising on security and guidelines.

Natively spoken awareness training videos for everyone

We heard you. You want video training content, in your own language, on all topics. With the Summer Release, we’re delivering.

AI dubbing and virtual avatars streamline video training output

We’re are now using AI dubbed speech and virtual speaker avatars to scale up our awareness training video production. Avatars provide a friendly face to better connect with viewers. Natural sounding speech improves engagement by providing lessons in the learner’s preferred language.

This new process means you’ll get more expert-created training content in video format.

Natural speaking is better than voice-overs

Traditional dubbing overlays translated audio on the video. This looks odd with speech and mouth movements out-of-sync. Thanks to virtual avatars, the speaker’s mouth movements are matched to the translated speech. Watching videos in your own language is less distracting and more engaging.

The virtual avatars are based on real people. Their digital twins speak all of our supported languages!

More video content in 40 languages

The first videos with avatars and dubbing are now available in all 40 supported languages. Our new AI-powered video production process will bring you more multilingual training videos in all topics.

Better user data, better training targeting with HRIS integrations

Targeted training is more effective. Generic lessons feel irrelevant while targeted lessons tie security knowledge to actual work.

Successful training targeting depends on accurate user information. Job function, department, country. All this data can suffer from inaccuracies, missing fields, or mismatches.

Standardized user data from the most reliable source

The best user data lives in the HR Information System (HRIS). Hoxhunt now brings accurate, standardized employee details into training through HRIS integrations with Workday, BambooHR, HiBob and SAP SuccessFactors.

Hoxhunt integrates with Hibob, Workday, BambooHR, and SAP SuccessFactors

Improve reach of targeted training

With accurate data, awareness managers can confidently target training by country, department, job function, starting date, and more. Training reach increases as fewer users fall out of targeting due to bad data.

Benefits go beyond targeting. Information like a user’s manager improves personalization of phishing templates. It also improves completion rates, as Hoxhunt can reminder managers when their reports have overdue training.

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