Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. One important and often overlooked element is social engineering education. dollars to remediate per incident.

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Social Engineering Education Technology Engineering 78

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

The good news is that OneSpan and other security vendors are innovating to bring machine learning, data analytics and artificial intelligence to the front lines. In the not-so-distant past, banks dealt with online and account takeover fraud, where hackers stole passwords and used phishing scams to target specific individuals.

Banking 147

Banking Mobile Accountability Artificial Intelligence 147

SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

While voice fraud isn’t new, this is the first reported example of an audio deepfake scam, and although some doubt the veracity of this story , it highlights the potentially massive threat that deepfakes pose to businesses. Faced with more advanced scams, employees will find it even more difficult to tell what’s real from what’s fake.

Social Engineering 77

Social Engineering Scams Technology Phishing 77

Security Through Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Spam & Scam Report stated that 1 in 3 Americans (33%) report having ever fallen victim to phone scams. million Americans (26%) reported losing money from phone scams. These statistics are no doubt very concerning and may lead to some questions; What do these kinds of scams look like, what can I do to protect myself?

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Scams Artificial Intelligence Technology Government 52

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. The likelihood that the target will respond to a message is increased by this personalization.

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Phishing Social Engineering Authentication Security Awareness 98

SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. Alongside the usual get-rich-doing-nothing and paid survey scams, we encountered a few less conventional scenarios. Scam sites also used cryptocurrency as bait.

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Phishing Scams Cryptocurrency Accountability 101

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT—the much-hyped, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that provides human-like responses from an enormous knowledge base—has been embraced practically everywhere, from private sector businesses to K–12 classrooms. As of November 2022, people can no longer ignore the artificial elephant in the room.

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Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 77

SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

The lure of artificial intelligence (AI) captures everyone’s imagination with its potential to improve different areas of people’s lives. It lets bots mimic human behavior better, underlies highly effective social engineering campaigns, and plays a role in creating predatory code that flies under the radar.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams Social Engineering 54

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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Cybersecurity CISO Government Technology 140

Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Many organizations are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to make decisions or perform intelligent analysis. Other low-level scams have emerged using SPAM emails claiming to have a cure for the Coronavirus or asking for money or financial information for imparting the so-called medical advice.

Cyber Attacks 78

Cyber Attacks Phishing Backups Ransomware 78