The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Kapczynski Erin: Could you share your thoughts on the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the growth of IoT devices in both cyber defense and cyberattacks? Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Leadership should prioritize cybersecurity at all levels.

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Cyber threats Cyber Insurance Threat Detection Cybersecurity 203

SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Given the continued surge of ransomware attacks, which soared 288% in the first half of 2022 alone, the need for cyber insurance will be a bigger priority, especially in the SMB market. As such, we anticipate a booming cyber insurance industry as many organizations heed these warnings and seek to guard against ransomware attacks.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

New AI Scams to Look Out For in 2024 IdentityIQ Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly reshaped many aspects of everyday life. These sophisticated scams exploit our inherent trust in familiar faces and voices, making them dangerous tools for fake news, celebrity endorsements, and social engineering scams.

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Scams Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Phishing 98

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Lastly, Accenture confirms it has cyber insurance, but if it is under-insured, the business could still face significant impacts from a cyberattack and the resulting litigation: These monetary damages might not be subject to a contractual limit of liability or an exclusion of consequential or indirect damages and could be significant.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In late 2024, Russian ransomware groups began collaborating with native English speakers, boosting their social engineering capabilities. The group social-engineered the organization’s help desk, employing fluent English to achieve a reset of a compromised account’s password.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks. Interestingly, metaverses are gaining traction in social and political spheres, illustrated by a Columbian court conducting its first trial in the metaverse.

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Passwords Authentication Technology Insurance 124

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In late 2024, Russian ransomware groups began collaborating with native English speakers, boosting their social engineering capabilities. The group social-engineered the organization’s help desk, employing fluent English to achieve a reset of a compromised account’s password.

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Social Engineering Cybersecurity DDOS Ransomware 52

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

With faster response times, a more centralized platform, and artificial intelligence-powered workflows, many companies select XDR tools to optimize or go beyond what their SIEM and UEBA tools can do. BAS works in the background of daily operations and is frequently automated with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Generative AI becomes the double-edged tool we have been waiting for and dreading The Generative Artificial Intelligence arms race has begun, as innovation and adoption swell to record-breaking levels, becoming a threat to digital security, privacy, and safety while also providing tremendously helpful capabilities to cybersecurity defenders.

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Risk Cybersecurity CISO Technology 115

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2024

It remembers everything you do on your PC. Security experts are raging at Redmond to recall Recall. The post Microsoft Recall is a Privacy Disaster appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Cybersecurity professionals can rarely have a conversation among peers these days without artificial intelligence—ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, etc.—coming Cybercriminals can use AI to develop more sophisticated and effective attack methods, such as spear-phishing or social engineering attacks. Is it good? Is it inevitable (yes)?

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Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Threat Detection Risk 131

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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Attacks that we see today impacting single agent systems, such as data poisoning, prompt injection, or social engineering to influence agent behavior, could all be vulnerabilities within a multi-agent system. What the Practitioners Predict Jake Bernstein, Esq.,

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AI in Holiday Scams AI (artificial intelligence) has made it easier for scammers to create convincing, hard-to-detect holiday scams. Social Engineering through Behavioral Data AI algorithms can analyze your online behavior, browsing history, and past purchases, which scammers can then use to tailor offers that look appealing.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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. A deepfake is a combination of Artificial Intelligence “deep learning” and that watchword of the 2010s: “fake.”.

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