Artificial Intelligence and Authentication

Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

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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Artificial Intelligence: The Evolution of Social Engineering

Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From traditional methods to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), malicious actors continually adapt and leverage emerging tools to exploit vulnerabilities. This poses a serious threat to organizations relying on voice and video for authentication.

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Is Artificial Intelligence Making People More Secure? Or Less?

Security Boulevard

JULY 20, 2023

AI can be used to monitor user behavior and make real-time decisions about whether to grant access or add step-up authentication if there is anything anomalous about the request (such as a login from an unusual timezone). If it detects a threat or anomalous behavior, its dashboard explains the decision in human-readable form. We should, too.

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Artificial Intelligence now allows to speak to dead ones

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

If nott, here’s a way to do so- all thanks to the technology of Artificial Intelligence(AI). Though all this stuff seems like a script of a Hollywood movie, it truly exists in practical and allows people to have an authentic conversation with the dead ones.

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LRQA Nettitude’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence

LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

NIST – The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework earlier this year which aims to help organizations designing, developing, deploying, or using AI systems to help manage the many risks of AI and promote trustworthy and responsible development and use of AI systems.

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Generative AI is Making Phishing Attacks More Sophisticated… But You Can Remove the Bait with Passwordless Authentication

Security Boulevard

JULY 6, 2023

While artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, the introduction of ChatGPT in November. The post Generative AI is Making Phishing Attacks More Sophisticated… But You Can Remove the Bait with Passwordless Authentication appeared first on Axiad.

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3 Ways AI Could Improve Authentication

Dark Reading

JULY 19, 2023

As companies navigate how to protect themselves from the onslaught of increasingly sophisticated fraud threats, artificial intelligence will be a critical piece of next-gen authentication.

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5 Ways artificial intelligence Is Being Used to Keep Sensitive Information Secure

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Artificial intelligence is an immensely helpful tool for businesses and consumers alike, how to use artificial intelligence to secure sensitive Information. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an immensely helpful tool for businesses and consumers alike. Password Protection & Authentication.

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New Chariot Module Nosey Parker Released: An Artificial Intelligence Based Secrets Scanner That Out Sniffs the Competition

Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

Virtually any programmatic task involving authentication or security requires developers to work with this kind of data. The post New Chariot Module Nosey Parker Released: An Artificial Intelligence Based Secrets Scanner That Out Sniffs the Competition appeared first on Praetorian.

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Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice

Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2023

A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank.

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SecureAuth unveils new end-to-end access and authentication solution

CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

A new next-generation access and authentication platform powered by artificial intelligence was launched Wednesday by SecureAuth. The days of granting blanket trust after initial authentication are over, says SecureAuth CEO Paul Trulove. "If, To read this article in full, please click here

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M1 Chip Vulnerability

Schneier on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, however, have created a novel hardware attack, which combines memory corruption and speculative execution attacks to sidestep the security feature. Researchers say that it is unpatchable.

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Human by Default: The New Imperative in Trust and Technology

Jane Frankland

MARCH 27, 2024

I’ve been thinking about what it means to be human in our rapidly evolving digital landscape, and how interactions once filled with personal nuances are now frequently handled by algorithms and artificial intelligence. This has led to a new imperative in trust and technology – being human by default.

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Episode 245: How AI is remaking knowledge-based authentication

The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Six decades in, password use has tipped into the absurd, while two-factor authentication is showing its limits. We talk with Matt Salisbury of Honeybadger HQ, which is using AI and machine learning to re-imagine knowledge-based authentication. Imagining the Future of Authentication. AI juices knowledge-based authentication.

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Daon’s TrustX to offer SaaS-based, no-code identity journeys

CSO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Identity and access management provider Daon has launched a SaaS-based identity proofing and authentication platform TrustX, designed to help customers create and manage user identity journeys across organizational workflows.

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If George Washington Had a TikTok, What Would His Password Be?

Dark Reading

JULY 17, 2023

Artificial intelligence can be tricked into making password-based authentication even weaker.

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Spotlight Podcast: How AI Is Reshaping The Cyber Threat Landscape

The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

Jim and I talk about the findings of DirectDefense’s latest Security Operations Threat Report and dig into the intriguing ways artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping both cyberattack and defense automation strategies.

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GUEST ESSAY: Where we stand on mitigating software risks associated with fly-by-wire jetliners

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Number one is increasingly connected systems; number two is onboard Wi-Fi; and number three is the use of commercial software, including artificial intelligence in aircraft. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms.

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The LLM Misinformation Problem I Was Not Expecting

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The prolific use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs) present new challenges we must address and new questions we must answer. In a recent module on operating systems, for instance, students enthusiastically described "artificial intelligence operating systems (AI OS)" and even "Blockchain OS."

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Two-factor authentication utilizes data intelligently to protect users

Tech Republic Security

JULY 28, 2017

Lastwall co-founder and CEO Karl Holmqvist explains how artificial intelligence could could soon eliminate the need for password-based security.

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Nation-state actors are using AI services and LLMs for cyberattacks

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Multiple nation-state actors are exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI ChatGPT, to automate their attacks and increase their sophistication. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

For whatever reason, the majority of the phony LinkedIn profiles reviewed by this author have involved young women with profile photos that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Fake accounts sometimes use these convincing, AI-generated profile photos to make their fake LinkedIn profile appear more authentic.

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GoldPickaxe Trojan steals your face!

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Once the criminals have a scan of the face they can use artificial intelligence (AI) to perform face-swaps. Many financial organizations use facial recognition for transaction verification and login authentication. Face swapping is a technique that allows you to replace faces in images with others.

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Voice Cloning Conundrum: Navigating Deepfakes in Synthetic Media

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. Given these developments, organizations and individuals relying on voice authentication must reconsider their security frameworks.

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Hong Kong Clerk Defrauded of $25 Million in Sophisticated Deepfake Scam

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As artificial intelligence continues advancing at a rapid pace, criminals are increasingly using AI capabilities to carry out sophisticated scams and attacks. Security experts suggest countermeasures will be needed such as digital authentication of meeting attendees.

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Europol warns of criminal use of ChatGPT

Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Europol warns of cybercriminal organizations can take advantage of systems based on artificial intelligence like ChatGPT. EU police body Europol warned about the potential abuse of systems based on artificial intelligence, such as the popular chatbot ChatGPT, for cybercriminal activities.

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The FBI Warns About A Google Voice Scam That Is Not New, But Still Finding Plenty Of Victims

Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 26, 2022

To do so, they ask you to perform a form of Google authentication in which, to confirm your identity, you need to provide them with a number that will be sent to your phone by either text or voice message. As such, the criminal’s request may seem innocuous, when it is anything but.

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Video: Can big data and machine learning kill two-factor authentication?

Tech Republic Security

JULY 26, 2017

Lastwall co-founder and CEO Karl Holmqvist explains how artificial intelligence could could soon eliminate the need for password-based security.

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Cybercriminals Are Impersonating Meal-Kit Services In Order To Steal Money And Personal Information

Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybercriminals know that the more subscribers a service has, the more likely that messages sent to random phone numbers will reach subscribers who believe that the received messages are authentic communications from the relevant service.

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NIST Report Highlights Rising Tide of Threats Facing AI Systems

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform major sectors like healthcare, transportation, finance, and government over the coming years. But the advanced machine learning (ML) models powering this AI revolution also introduce new vectors of attack for malicious actors.

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FCC Enacts Rules Against SIM Swapping to Protect Mobile Phone Users

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These fraudulent activities not only compromise wireless account access but also pose significant risks to financial accounts, social media profiles, and other online services utilizing phone numbers for multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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CISA and NCSC Unveil Guidelines for Secure AI System Development

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The guidelines, meticulously crafted in collaboration with 21 other agencies and ministries across the globe, mark a pivotal moment in addressing the growing cybersecurity concerns surrounding artificial intelligence systems.

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US Savings Bonds Offer A Great Deal: But The Treasury’s Site To Purchase Them Offers Questionable Security

Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Such requirements weaken the security of user authentication; for the minimum 8-character passwords required by the system, TreasuryDirect’s policies reduce the number of possible passwords by somewhere around 98% – and that number only grows increasingly worse as people lengthen their passwords.

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GUEST ESSAY: An assessment of how ‘Gen-AI’ has begun to transform DevSecOps

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Combining DevSecOps with Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) holds the potential to transform both software development and cybersecurity protocols. This frees up the DevSecOps teams to focus on higher-order tasks, such as testing and developing new authentication features.

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AI voice cracks telephone banking voice recognition

Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

Voice ID is slowly rolling out across various banks worldwide as a way to perform user authentication over the phone. Now that we have freely available artificial intelligence (AI) happily replicating people’s voices, could it be a security risk? However, questions remain about just how secure it is.

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The Evolving Landscape of Cybersecurity: Trends and Challenges

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Cybersecurity: AI and ML are transforming the way we approach cybersecurity. Employing encryption, multi-factor authentication, and continuous monitoring are some essential steps to safeguard cloud environments.

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2023: Perspectives from the ForgeRock C-Suite

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2023

Predictions on insider threats, passwordless authentication, artificial intelligence, and more Few industries move as quickly as cybersecurity, broadly, and the identity and access management (IAM) segment, specifically. We see them leading the way in implementing broad consumer adoption of passwordless authentication.

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The Security Risks of ChatGPT in an Enterprise Environment

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more prevalent in enterprise environments, chatbots like ChatGPT are gaining popularity due to their ability to assist in customer service and support functions. One of the main risks associated with ChatGPT is the potential for data breaches.

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LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For whatever reason, the majority of the phony LinkedIn profiles reviewed by this author have involved young women with profile photos that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Fake accounts sometimes use these convincing, AI-generated profile photos to make their fake LinkedIn profile appear more authentic.

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Microsoft Windows 11 will have more protection against cyber threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2022

Additionally, the newly presented Personal Data Encryption feature will help protect user files and data from malicious drivers and will act as an additional security layer by blocking access until they are authenticated by Windows Hello- available only to business users.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for leveraging hardware to shore up security — via a co-processor

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

Seeing the flaws continue year after year, the industry began linking authentication of valid software components to the underlying hardware, or the “root of trust”. This approach allows for compromised software to be identified during the authentication process.

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Identity theft is number one threat for consumers, says report

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Now, with the mass availability of Artificial Intelligence tools, it becomes so much easier to correlate all these data sets and piece together a complete profile of everyone affected. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

Cytelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing field with the potential to revolutionize many industries. One way to address the problem is to develop better ways to detect and authenticate generative AI fakes. However, it also poses new security challenges.

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PACMAN, a new attack technique against Apple M1 CPUs

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

PACMAN is a novel hardware attack technique that can allow attackers to bypass Pointer Authentication (PAC) on the Apple M1 CPU. The pointer authentication codes (PACs) allow to detect and guard against unexpected changes to pointers in memory. ” reads the research paper published by the researchers. ” reads the paper.

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Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

Artificial Intelligence: The Evolution of Social Engineering

Webinars

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Is Artificial Intelligence Making People More Secure? Or Less?

Webinars

Artificial Intelligence now allows to speak to dead ones

LRQA Nettitude’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI is Making Phishing Attacks More Sophisticated… But You Can Remove the Bait with Passwordless Authentication

3 Ways AI Could Improve Authentication

5 Ways artificial intelligence Is Being Used to Keep Sensitive Information Secure

New Chariot Module Nosey Parker Released: An Artificial Intelligence Based Secrets Scanner That Out Sniffs the Competition

Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice

SecureAuth unveils new end-to-end access and authentication solution

M1 Chip Vulnerability

Human by Default: The New Imperative in Trust and Technology

Episode 245: How AI is remaking knowledge-based authentication

Daon’s TrustX to offer SaaS-based, no-code identity journeys

If George Washington Had a TikTok, What Would His Password Be?

Spotlight Podcast: How AI Is Reshaping The Cyber Threat Landscape

GUEST ESSAY: Where we stand on mitigating software risks associated with fly-by-wire jetliners

The LLM Misinformation Problem I Was Not Expecting

Two-factor authentication utilizes data intelligently to protect users

Nation-state actors are using AI services and LLMs for cyberattacks

LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

GoldPickaxe Trojan steals your face!

Voice Cloning Conundrum: Navigating Deepfakes in Synthetic Media

Hong Kong Clerk Defrauded of $25 Million in Sophisticated Deepfake Scam

Europol warns of criminal use of ChatGPT

The FBI Warns About A Google Voice Scam That Is Not New, But Still Finding Plenty Of Victims

Video: Can big data and machine learning kill two-factor authentication?

Cybercriminals Are Impersonating Meal-Kit Services In Order To Steal Money And Personal Information

NIST Report Highlights Rising Tide of Threats Facing AI Systems

FCC Enacts Rules Against SIM Swapping to Protect Mobile Phone Users

CISA and NCSC Unveil Guidelines for Secure AI System Development

US Savings Bonds Offer A Great Deal: But The Treasury’s Site To Purchase Them Offers Questionable Security

GUEST ESSAY: An assessment of how ‘Gen-AI’ has begun to transform DevSecOps

AI voice cracks telephone banking voice recognition

The Evolving Landscape of Cybersecurity: Trends and Challenges

2023: Perspectives from the ForgeRock C-Suite

The Security Risks of ChatGPT in an Enterprise Environment

LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

Microsoft Windows 11 will have more protection against cyber threats

GUEST ESSAY: The case for leveraging hardware to shore up security — via a co-processor

Identity theft is number one threat for consumers, says report

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

PACMAN, a new attack technique against Apple M1 CPUs

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