CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

According to an update released to the media, Amazon expressed that the use of AI tech has reduced the packaging consumption per shipment by over 33% that accounts for 3 million tons of packaging required to prepare over 2 billion different sized boxes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Crooks created a new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and BEC. These posts introduced a new tool that incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC).

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

A written proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and to place new oversight on other “high-risk” AI applications—published by the European Commission this week—met fierce opposition from several digital rights advocates in Europe. The proposal includes a few core segments. Hopefully, they’re for the better.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2025

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the publics interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and delivering malware via text-to-video tools. Links to the malicious websites were brought to the researchers’ attention by ads and links in comments on social media platforms.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

Technical support consultant using programming to upgrade artificial intelligence simulation model As AI tools boom in popularity, cyberthieves are exploiting the excitement with fake AI video editing platforms that lure users into downloading malware. The account was created on March 16. Check file extensions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2025

This update must be completed by 2025-03-16 to avoid any potential penalties or disruptions to your account. Perhaps they’ll sell the details on the dark web, or use them for themselves to get access to your Microsoft accounts. Instead use a secure method such as your online account or another application on IRS.gov.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. Lured in by similar color schemes, company logos, and familiar layouts, victims log in to their account by entering their username and password.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. But where has that imagination brought us? That could change in 2025.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Even though the saying is older than you might think, it did not come about earlier than the concept of artificial intelligence (AI). A lot of AI related stories this year dealt with social media and other public sources that were scraped to train an AI model. Deepfakes can be used in scams and in disinformation campaigns.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Common attacks to consumer protection Identity theft and fraud Some common types of identity theft and fraud include account takeover fraud , when criminals use stolen personal information such as account numbers, usernames, or passwords to hijack bank accounts, credit cards, and even email and social media accounts.

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Initiate contact with a charity via its website/listed phone number/physical address/official social media accounts; never send payment details to anyone who initiates contact with you and claims to represent a charity. Ask would be visitors to leave information about the charity for which they are collecting, and research it online.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 30, 2025

Everyone’s talking about AI aren’t they, and when I gave a keynote on Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity recently, I relayed how the rise of AI has brought us to a pivotal moment in historya moment brimming with both extraordinary opportunity and unparalleled risk. AI amplifies these risks exponentially.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 23, 2024

The post Newsweek Op-Ed: Oversight of the Management of Cybersecurity Risks: The Skill Corporate Boards Need, But, So Often, Do Not Have appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor.

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The Hacker News

MAY 1, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an "influence-as-a-service" operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Social media is allowing companies to show their creativity and personality to customers and the world like never before. Today, businesses have the ability to reach millions of people through social media—regularly and as creatively as they dare. How does AI boost social media? A staggering 4.62

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

But for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the democratic processes—not through voting, but through lobbying. But such messages are just the beginning.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

Collectively, they could easily put affected customers at risk for account takeovers and identity theft. million former account holders. This leak reportedly included full names, dates of birth email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, and AT&T account numbers.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 18, 2025

From tech used to make education more accessible, for example, to the ever talked about artificial intelligence (AI) shaping many sectors, the way tech has integrated with the modern world both seamlessly and speedily is notable. In fact, youre more likely to be targeted on social media.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2025

In June 2024, the social media giant announced it was delaying the training of its large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram following the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) request. Were proud that our approach is more transparent than many of our industry counterparts.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 25, 2025

If you are worried about revealing your exact locationor if you maybe even fib about it at timesthere are some good reasons to worry about what is visible in background photos, because Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting very good at guessing where you are based on the smallest of clues.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2024

Introduction The inaugural issue of AI-Cybersecurity Update set the stage for a broad discussion on the transformative impacts of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. As synthetic media becomes more sophisticated, the techniques to detect such content must also evolve. Promoting media literacy is another essential strategy.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data from the accounts of Australian adult users to train its AI models. Claybaugh said yes, but she added that accounts of people under 18 were not scraped. That’s the reality, isn’t it?”

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

One of the cases with probable Chinese origins, for example, found ChatGPT accounts generating social media posts in English, Chinese, and Urdu. What the report found In each of the 10 cases outlined in the new report, OpenAI outlined how it detected and addressed the problem.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

To those interested in known news bits on the technology of Artificial Intelligence, here some fuel for thought. According to a report published in New York Post, a woman located in the same city has married a virtual man generated to the Artificial Intelligence.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A large social media campaign was launched to promote a free Artificial Intelligence (AI) video editor. The campaign to promote the AI video editor was active on several social media platforms, like X, Facebook, and YouTube… …and had been active for quite a while. Monitor your accounts.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

It seems that everyone is rushing to embed artificial intelligence into their solutions, and security offerings are among the latest to obtain this shiny new thing. In reality, it was an April fool’s prank with MITRE’s social media team cranking out funny answers in the guise of a chatbot.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Krebs On Security received this update from the professional social media giant and initiated an inquiry along with the public disclosure. To curtail such profile attacks, the networking website is apparently taking the help of Artificial Intelligence to neutralize such campaigns.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

We have on average 67 applications on our mobile phones, seven social media accounts and more than 120 online accounts. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. Applying artificial intelligence and using natural language processing to dissect the complex privacy policies is the right way forward.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 14, 2024

In what may come as a surprise to nobody at all, there’s been yet another complaint about using social media data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI). We don’t just report on threats – we help protect your social media Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. It’s also a contest about control and power, about how resources should be distributed and who should be held accountable. The reality, unfortunately, is quite different.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

As I lay out in a report I just published , artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. The programmers will be satisfied, the accountants ecstatic. Not for long.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

The exploding popularity of AI and its proliferation within the media has led to a rush to integrate this incredibly powerful technology into all sorts of different applications. In the initial stages of implementation, regulators might provide guidance on how to demonstrate accountability.

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