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Cybersecurity Industry News Review – March 21, 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

s National Cyber Security Centre has sought to calm concerns about ChatGPT and other chatbots’ ability to supercharge cyber scams. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 2022 Internet Crime Report based on complaints to its Internet Crime Complaint Centre. Tech support scams cost $806.6m.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. invest in better endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology, apparently recommending Cylance or VMware Carbon Black. How not to disclosure a Hack.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

Krebs on Security

The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. There should be an expansion of the “ persistent engagement ” strategy to financial crime. 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.