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Rising volume of email fatigue opens doors for Cybercriminals

CyberSecurity Insiders

How email-based cyber attacks work. Email-based attacks are not a new problem. For example, some of the most notorious email-related cyber attacks of the 1990s came through the propagation of the Melissa virus. The Revere Health data breach was small scale compared to the 2020 MEDNAX data breach.

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Cybersecurity in 2022, Predictions for digital ecosystem facing more challenges and sophisticated threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

While organizations can invest in sophisticated cybersecurity and threat detection solutions to detect anomalous network and system activity, a socially-engineered conversation between a malicious actor and an untrained employee can easily slip under the radar.

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The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams

Identity IQ

However, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has taken these scams to a whole new level. Spoofing techniques are commonly used in phishing and other cyber attacks to trick victims into believing that the communication is legitimate. This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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GUEST ESSAY: The many ways your supply chain is exposing your company to a cyber attack

The Last Watchdog

You and your cybersecurity team do everything correctly to safeguard your infrastructure, yet the frightening alert still arrives that you’ve suffered a data breach. This artificial intelligence-driven, chip-scale innovation offers multiple and hierarchical trust relationships for complex ownership structures and transitions.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on best practices for automating supply chain cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

Data breaches exposed over 37 billion records in 2020 alone — a 141% jump from 2019. What use is automatic threat detection without an immediate response? While most supply chains rely on third-party vendors, they increase the chance of cyber attacks. Simply put, cyberattacks are on the rise. Scalability.

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Top 18 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2021

eSecurity Planet

As attack methodologies evolve due to AI, machine learning and nation-state hackers , security startups are receiving a lot of funding to develop products that can secure application access for remote workers , provide real-time visibility into cyber attacks and protect data as it travels from the cloud to IoT devices.