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Fake LinkedIn CISO Profiles Target Top Companies

SecureWorld News

Most recently, one of those new schemes involves fake LinkedIn profiles representing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) at some of the world's largest corporations. CISO profiles spoofed on LinkedIn. One of the fake profiles that was discovered was for one Victor Sites, claiming to be the CISO at Chevron.

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Strangest social engineering attacks of 2021

CSO Magazine

Proofpoint has listed what it describes as the five strangest social engineering scams it detected last year, with campaigns including the spoofing of soccer coaches and scholars to trick victims into parting with data and money. global resident CISO at Proofpoint, tells CSO. To read this article in full, please click here

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Meta, Apple emergency data request scam holds lessons for CISOs

CSO Magazine

A recent Bloomberg piece highlighted how Meta Platforms, Inc., parent company of Facebook) and Apple, Inc., had been successfully socially engineered into providing customer data in response to “emergency data requests” to individuals who they believed to be representing the U.S. government.

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Cyber nonprofits ask billionaire philanthropists to show them some love

SC Magazine

When people come to us looking for help, one of the number one places they say they were scammed was on social media. These includes finance, education and social media giants. Social media… is one of the largest threat vectors,” said Judge. So there is a large role for social media to play in this space.”.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Security Boulevard

For more information about protecting your organization against deepfakes: “ How to prevent deepfakes in the era of generative AI ” (TechTarget) “ Deepfake scams escalate, hitting more than half of businesses ” (Cybersecurity Dive) “ The AI Threat: Deepfake or Deep Fake? critical infrastructure Boost the integrated cyber defenses of the U.S.