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The 3 biggest cybersecurity threats to small businesses

Malwarebytes

Whereas early phishing scams arrived almost entirely through emails, modern phishing scams can reach victims through malicious websites, text messages, social media, and even mobile app downloads. Social media account hacks are not only a risk to content creatorstheyre a risk to any business with a legitimate online audience.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 493 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Recent Cyber Attacks: Trends, Tactics, and Countermeasures

Hacker's King

From ransomware to sophisticated state-sponsored attacks, no organization is immune. Types of Recent Cyber Attacks Ransomware Attacks : Ransomware continues to be one of the most prevalent and damaging types of cyber attacks. These attacks often involve encrypting data and demanding a ransom for its decryption.

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New AI “agents” could hold people for ransom in 2025

Malwarebytes

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. But where has that imagination brought us? That could change in 2025.

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You should probably delete any sensitive screenshots you have in your phone right now. Here's why

Zero Day

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2024 in AI: It’s changed the world, but it’s not all good

Malwarebytes

Even though the saying is older than you might think, it did not come about earlier than the concept of artificial intelligence (AI). We started off 2024 with a warning from the British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) telling us it expects AI to heighten the global ransomware threat.

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86 million AT&T customer records reportedly up for sale on the dark web

Zero Day

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