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Unmasking 2024’s Email Security Landscape

Security Affairs

Emerging Threats and Trends The landscape of email threats continues to evolve, with VIPRE’s report shedding light on several alarming trends: Deepfake and AI Exploitation: Attackers increasingly leverage deepfake technology and AI to craft more convincing phishing emails, significantly raising the stakes for email security.

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Black Hat AI Tools Fuel Rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Now security researchers have discovered a black hat generative AI tool called WormGPT that has none of the ethical restrictions of tools like ChatGPT, making it even easier for hackers to craft cyber attacks based on AI tools. Refining phishing or BEC attack emails using generative AI.

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New AI Threats Emerge as FraudGPT Creator Unleashes DarkBERT and DarkBART

eSecurity Planet

As these tools gain traction and ease of use capabilities, prospective cybercriminals would find it simpler to undertake assaults such as business email compromise (BEC) and other illicit activities, lowering the bar for sophisticated cyber attacks.

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To Fix DMARC Requires Angry Customers

eSecurity Planet

A new Cloudflare phishing report notes that most of the 1 billion brand impersonation emails the company detected “passed” SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols. At the same time, an organization is also quite likely to fall for business email compromise and phishing attacks from their vendors.

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Ransomware Groups Look for Inside Help

eSecurity Planet

The bad actor told Hassold that he initially sent senior-level executives at the targeted companies phishing emails in hopes of compromising their accounts, but after that failed, he turned to trying to lure employees to unleash the ransomware themselves. Threat Traced to Nigeria. But this is just the start.”.

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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. The average business faces more than 700 of these types of attacks every single year. As AI capabilities grow, attackers are applying them to bolster their attack efforts in many ways.

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GreyNoise Helps Organizations Defend Against Opportunistic Scan-and-Exploit Attacks in Real Time with Investigate 4.0

CyberSecurity Insiders

Taken together, this new Trends functionality allows security teams to quickly understand if a vulnerability is relevant to their organization, and to buy them the time they need to put security defenses in place. . . The new Trends Attack Visibility graph is included for members of the free GreyNoise community.