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Cybersecurity in Aviation: Rising Threats and Modernization Efforts

SecureWorld News

Additionally, a distributed workforce, ranging from remote maintenance technicians to cabin crews, multiplies entry points for social-engineering tactics like phishing. Aircraft themselves are nodes on data networks, constantly transmitting telemetry, engine performance metrics, and passenger connectivity data.

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GUEST ESSAY: Everything you should know about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of AI chatbots

The Last Watchdog

By 2026, the integration of conversational AI in contact centers will lead to a substantial $80 billion reduction in labor costs for agents. Malicious intent or manipulation: AI chatbots can be exploited to spread misinformation, execute social engineering attacks or launch phishing.

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Combining Cybersecurity with Gaming: Cheats, Insider Threats, Ransomware and More

Security Boulevard

The video game industry has grown considerably since its introduction in the early 1970s, with analysts believing the market to be worth $321 billion by 2026. As such, the gaming industry faces a wide range of cyber and even physical threats as malicious actors are attracted by rising profits.

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Ransomware news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

And security researchers from ESET have discovered that the malware was uploaded to the VirusTotal operated system in Brazil and was targeted by a social engineering attack. North Korea’s Lazarus Group has reportedly designed new ransomware that is being targeted at M1 processors popularly running on Macs and Intel systems.

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Navigating the Landscape of Advanced Email Security Threats with Optimism

IT Security Guru

billion daily emails by 2026. According to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report , a significant 24% of all breaches involved social engineering, of which 60% were BEC and 40% were phishing attacks, emphasizing email’s role as a dominant attack vector. billion by 2025.

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The weirdest security stories of 2022

Malwarebytes

See you in 2026? Whether those compromises specifically were via some additional form of social engineering, we’ll likely never know. To be more precise, 2010, 2016, and now 2022 with a whole new astronaut to recover. A dance off of destruction. Invisible ads for thee but not for me.

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How voice biometrics can help MNOs reduce fraud

CyberSecurity Insiders

Fraud can occur using information gathered from a customer using social engineering. PP: As the name suggests, with this type of fraud, fraudsters use the accounts of their victims to access the MNO’s services. With phishing for example, customers can be tricked into providing information regarding their account.