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LLMs and Phishing

Schneier on Security

But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. So why were scammers still sending such obviously dubious emails?

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114 Million US Citizens and Companies Found Unprotected Online

Adam Levin

A cached version of the company’s website shows that it promised “access to our massive in-house data collection, as well as one of the largest data supplier networks of any data or lead company.”. The data was exposed due to a misconfiguration of Elasticsearch , an open-source search engine technology.

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The Telegram phishing market

SecureList

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. Archive with phishing kits posted in a Telegram scam channel Contents of a free phishing kit archive Phishers also share stolen personal data with their subscribers, tagging it with information on whether it was verified or not.

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Scott Hermann, CEO of IDIQ, Joins Entryway’s National Board of Directors

Identity IQ

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,

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Introducing the Digital Footprint Portal

Malwarebytes

I’m proud of our success, but it wasn’t just our technology that got us here. As cybercriminals change their tactics, as scammers needle their way onto online platforms, and as thieves steal and abuse the sensitive data that everyone places online, Malwarebytes will always stay one step ahead. It was our attitude.

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Tom Cruise,?TikTok?and Fraud: How to combat?DeepFakes

CyberSecurity Insiders

one business leader fell victim to a deepfake scam ?where Wh at’s more , the creator of the videos said in an interview recently that he created them in order to ‘ raise awareness to the continued evolution of the technology that can create incredibly realistic fake videos of people’. . In a famous case,?