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Artificial Intelligence meets real talk at IRISSCON 2024

BH Consulting

That’s why it’s essential to promote security awareness and training on AI-specific threats, said Craig Balding. Widely considered one of the industry’s leading sources of security research, the 2024 edition found that ransomware and extortion made up 32% of incidents. Seeing is not believing,” Moore warned.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Synthetic Sabotage: How AI Tools Are Fueling Tailored Phishing Campaigns at Scale

SecureWorld News

The phishing game has evolved into synthetic sabotage a hybrid form of social engineering powered by AI that can personalize, localize, and scale attacks with unnerving precision. At the heart of many of these kits are large language models (LLMs) trained or fine-tuned specifically for social engineering tasks.

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McAfee Unveils Tool to Identify Potential Deep Fakes

Security Boulevard

McAfee today added a tool to detect deep fakes to its portfolio that will initially be made available on PCs from Lenovo that are optimized to run artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The post McAfee Unveils Tool to Identify Potential Deep Fakes appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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MY TAKE: Account hijackers follow small banks, credit unions over to mobile banking apps

The Last Watchdog

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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Upending expectations and challenging assumptions: BH Consulting Breakfast Insights 2025

BH Consulting

Common ways of infiltrating victim organisations include social engineering against employees and stolen credentials. The last point delivers the biggest bang for your buck in security, Brian argued. Ransomware and business email compromise are constant threats against many businesses. Ethics and AI: just a mirage?

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The AI Takeover: Cybersecurity Tool or Terminator?

Security Boulevard

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?