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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

Security professionals agree that passwords are low hanging fruit for cybercriminals and can even be the keys to the kingdom when the compromised passwords belong to privileged accounts. Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Social Engineering 2.0: The Rise of Deepfake Phishing

SecureWorld News

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams

Identity IQ

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

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Privileged account management challenges: comparing PIM, PUM and PAM

CyberSecurity Insiders

He is also looking for opportunities to collect additional access parameters (usernames and passwords), elevate privileges, or use already existing compromised accounts for unauthorized access to systems, applications, and data. Social engineering. Once approved, the user's request will be approved for their account.

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Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks

The Hacker News

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A

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The Best Way to Detect Threats In the Cloud?

Anton on Security

Let’s continue our fun conversation on threat detection in the cloud that we started in “Who Does What In Cloud Threat Detection?” and “How to Think about Threat Detection in the Cloud” and continued somewhat in “Detection as Code? No, Detection as COOKING!” or even goodness in detection.