eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

A new potential cybercrime tool called "FraudGPT" appears to be an AI bot exclusively being used for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking tools, carding, and more nefarious activities. This craftiness would play a vital role in business email compromise (BEC) phishing campaigns on organizations.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

Based on data from more than 30,000 security incidents and more than 10,000 confirmed breaches, this year's report reveals a threat landscape where speed, simplicity, and stolen credentials dominate. Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. The median time to click was just 21 minutes. Speed matters. "The

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 1, 2025

The RSA Conference 2025, held in San Francisco from April 28 to May 1, spotlighted the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence, identity security, and collaborative defense strategies. Key findings: Smishing (SMS phishing) now makes up over two-thirds of mobile phishing attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss this war of attrition with Will LaSala, director of security services and security evangelist at OneSpan, a Chicago-based provider of anti-fraud, e-signature and digital identity solutions to 2,000 banks worldwide. The name of the game is balancing user convenience with security,” said LaSala.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While orchestrated, targeted phishing attacks are nothing new to experienced IT and cybersecurity pros, AI has added to their ferocity and sophistication. The post How AI is Encouraging Targeted Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 1, 2023

After a slow build over the past decade, new capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots are starting to make waves across a variety of industries. The post The AI Takeover: Cybersecurity Tool or Terminator?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI, questions have arisen regarding the continued relevance of the CIO title and whether it accurately reflects the evolving nature of the job. KnowBe4 Phishing Simulator: This tool uses generative AI to create realistic phishing emails.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

Attackers use phishing, pretexting, and baiting to gain access or information. Defenders use this knowledge to create security awareness training programs and conduct phishing simulations. Social Engineering Tactics: These tactics exploit human psychology to manipulate individuals.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

That grounding in real-world impact is what keeps innovation relevant and powerful. Watch the highlights from our chat to hear how innovation thrives when autonomy, purpose, and trust intersect.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Whether manifesting itself in a sophisticated phishing email or as a calculated series of conversations between employees and seemingly innocuous or "legitimate" parties with ulterior motives, a social engineering attack can have dire consequences. The average business faces more than 700 of these types of attacks every single year.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

In its latest research , SlashNext—a provider of multi-channel phishing and human hacking solutions—delves into the emerging use of generative AI, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, and the cybercrime tool WormGPT, in Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. Conversational AI like ChatGPT and its kin are good at sounding like a real person.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

From advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) to the continued evolution of ransomware and cyberattacks, the coming year is sure to bring significant developments in the world of cybersecurity. Artificial Intelligence will be crucial. I t will be crucial for everyone to stay informed and prepared.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

A startup getting to Unicorn status (valued at a billion or more) on the back of security training is quite a feat. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Its only appearance on Gartner MQs is as a Leader in security awareness training.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

The RSA Conference 2025, held in San Francisco from April 28 to May 1, spotlighted the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence, identity security, and collaborative defense strategies. Key findings: Smishing (SMS phishing) now makes up over two-thirds of mobile phishing attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

The generative AI application has revolutionized not only the world of artificial intelligence but is impacting almost every industry. Using ChatGPT’s large language model, anyone can easily generate malicious code or craft convincing phishing emails, all without any technical expertise or coding knowledge.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 1, 2025

The RSA Conference 2025, held in San Francisco from April 28 to May 1, spotlighted the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence, identity security, and collaborative defense strategies. Key findings: Smishing (SMS phishing) now makes up over two-thirds of mobile phishing attacks.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Whether they come in the form of images, videos, audio, or text, the number of “deepfakes” — synthetic media altered or created with the help of machine learning or artificial intelligence — has expanded at an alarming rate. Weaponized deepfakes are not theoretical.

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. This knowledge could also help security professionals with developing or updating security awareness programmes.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

For example, hackers can use packet sniffers or a phishing link using a man-in-the-middle attack. endpoint security (antivirus, Endpoint Detection and Response, etc.), DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.), and Active Directory security (credentials promotion, adding users, etc.).

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BH Consulting

JULY 13, 2023

These require softer skills, such as policy development, security awareness, and training, governance, security communications, privacy or cyber law, and ethics. In a related development, privacy authorities in the G7 countries met in June to discuss data protection concerns around generative artificial intelligence models.

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NetSpi Executives

DECEMBER 3, 2024

First, security will be increasingly viewed as a business-wide responsibility in the coming year, with proper definitions of which departments are responsible for which aspect of security. For example, IT is responsible for the infrastructure, HR manages employee security awareness, and so forth.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

For instance: Emerging Technologies : Innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and blockchain are revolutionizing cybersecurity practices. These sessions should cover fundamental cybersecurity practices, phishing detection, password management, and incident response.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Similarly, an Indianapolis-based law firm was infected by ransomware distributed through a spear-phishing email message, containing a malicious attachment impersonating the United States Postal Service. The companies that were targeted by cyber criminals preferred to remain anonymous to avoid potential reputational damages.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

New technologies that are used to fight cyberattacks such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are also used by the “bad guys” to wage cyberattacks against organizations today. So, cyber-attacks are becoming much more sophisticated.

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Webroot

JANUARY 20, 2021

However, about six months into my role at Webroot, I was successfully phished by our IT department who were sending out simulated phishing emails at the time. Nonetheless, I brushed up on my security awareness training afterwards! Lesson learned from me. As of Jan.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

The post AI’s Role in Cybersecurity for Attackers and Defenders in 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard. As AI becomes available and robust, malicious actors have already used it to develop more advanced attack methods; defenders must also leverage AI in 2024.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2025

Attackers employ smishing (SMS phishing) and vishing (voice phishing) techniques, now augmented with AI-generated content, to deceive victims. The threat surface is evolving faster than ever, and AI is fundamentally reshaping how risk is created, exploited, and managed," said David DellaPelle , CEO & Co-Founder of Dune Security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the biggest names in tech are promising to spend more than $30 billion to bolster cybersecurity capabilities, from securing the supply chain and expanding the adoption of the zero trust model to growing the talent pool , ramping up security awareness and revamping parts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework.

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