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Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

Security Affairs

Crooks created a new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and BEC. Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams.

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Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud

Schneier on Security

This seems to be an identity theft first : Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking.

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News alert: AI-powered web scrapers from Oxylabs are breaking new ground in fraud detection

The Last Watchdog

“Unauthorised transactions made with the help of lost or stolen credit cards, counterfeit cards, ID document forgery and identity theft, fake identification, email phishing, and imposter scams are among the most common types of payment fraud today.”

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Fintech Cybersecurity Trends in 2021

Security Boulevard

Fraud and identity theft are on the rise, with online shopping hacks and COVID-related scams popular among cybercriminals. . Fortunately, emerging trends in the financial technology sector may have the potential to turn the tide of cybercrime and keep our financial data safe. . AI fraud detection. .

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Security Roundup May 2023

BH Consulting

Repetition can lead people to over-disclose information, that could then put them at risk of identity theft and cybercrime. Irish Data protection and privacy newsround Recent weeks have seen privacy regulators stampede towards clamping down on artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT (does that make it a banned-wagon?).

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do.

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BEC Still #1, but Investment Fraud passes Romance Scams

Security Boulevard

For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. Identity Theft. The theory was that their advanced Artificial Intelligence was doing Bitcoin trading to make amazing profits. But this year, we had a change! 213,196,082. Tech Support. 347,657,432.

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