BH Consulting

APRIL 30, 2025

Its top three cybercrimes, based on reports from victims, were: phishing/spoofing, extortion and personal data breaches. CSO Online marked the progress as 66 per cent done. Diving into e-commerce scams MORE How threat actors used Zooms remote control feature for a crypto scam. Losses in 2024 exceeded an eye-watering $6.5

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Security researchers have used the GPT-3 natural language generation model and the ChatGPT chatbot based on it to show how such deep learning models can be used to make social engineering attacks such as phishing or business email compromise scams harder to detect and easier to pull off.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Google patches zero-day vulnerability , and others, in Android Zuckerberg’s Metaverse , and the possible privacy and security concerns This Steam phish baits you with a free Discord Nitro BlackMatter ransomware group announces shutdown. New “Frankenstein” phishing kits are becoming increasingly popular.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

Cybercriminals have started taking advantage of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) downfall to carrying out scams that can steal money, and bank account information, or infect customers’ systems with malware. This means these customers will receive notifications including the new bank account numbers from their new bank.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

The attack , which Microsoft researchers call multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing, started with a compromise at a trusted vendor and targeted organizations from the banking and financial services sectors. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And a bitcoin scam on Twitter started with spear phishing attacks on Twitter employees. Hackers used a compromised password to access the company network via a virtual private network in the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline attack. A widely known vulnerability that hadn’t yet been patched was the entry point for the 2017 Equifax attack.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The findings follow recent research which showed how attackers can use ChatGPT to significantly enhance phishing and business email compromise (BEC) scams. In fact, almost half (48%) predicted that a successful cyberattack will be credited to the technology within the next 12 months. To read this article in full, please click here

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