Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Vulnerability to Social Engineering Attacks Consumer-grade communication tools often have weaker authentication methods, making it easier for attackers to exploit users through phishing or impersonation attempts. The AI Question AI is on everyones lips and theres no denying that its revolutionising the way we do business.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

Allegedly orchestrated by the same group known as Scattered Spider, these attacks highlight the significant challenges even the most respected and established brands face in defending against modern cyber threats. The attack on M&S, which is still unfolding, has wiped more than 750 million off the companys market value.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

since the nascent days of the antivirus market, I find in fascinating that the top dozen or so antivirus players have all managed to remain in the game. So next, threat actors focused on honing techniques to gain access to privileged accounts. Having covered the Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Sophos, Kaspersky, et.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Leaders guiding their organisations today need to know how to balance AI’s benefits – like real-time threat detection, rapid response, and automated defences – with new risks and complexities. Counteracting the clichés One common storyline we see in cybersecurity marketing is how criminals’ use of AI is a major threat.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

A more crowded landscape will likely drive ransomware operators to demand higher ransoms and adopt more sophisticated attack strategies to ensure their market share. This access allows newcomers to launch significant attacks with minimal investment, intensifying competition as groups rush to capture market share.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2021

This is the only email security solution on the market to offer this capability. displays customizable banners to contain specific instructions and context to warn employees of a specific email threat. GreatHorn safeguards cloud email from advanced threats, (e.g., Through its proactive threat detection engine, end-user.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

How Specialized Affiliates and Smarter Tactics Are Accelerating Ransomware The RaaS market is growing, both in the number of publicly named victims and in diversity. Combined with automation, this enhances threat detection, containment, investigation, and response, enabling customers to outpace threat actors.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. This relentless innovation makes threat actors more refined, targeted, and efficient, enabling them to have a bigger impact despite efforts to curb their activities.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. The Rapid7 Insight Platform gives you a broad spectrum of solutions for cloud security, vulnerability risk management, threat detection and response, and threat intelligence.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2025

Threat actors used AI tools to orchestrate highly convincing and scalable social engineering campaigns, making it easier to deceive users and infiltrate systems. This trend, among other AI-powered social engineering attacks, will amplify identity compromise, ransomware, and data exfiltration in 2025.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord. We talked in detail about obfuscation methods in our post about the phishing-kit market. URL shorteners.

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SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

Among these threats, Lumma Stealer has emerged as a particularly sophisticated player since its introduction in 2022 by the threat actor known as Lumma. Initially marketed as LummaC2, this information stealer quickly gained traction in underground forums, with prices starting at $250. com bot-detection-v1.b-cdn[.]net

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IBDFIR team was brought in to examine an incident in an Asia-based company which allowed to establish that PerSwaysion is a sophisticated 3-phase phishing operation that uses special tactics and techniques to avoid detection. It stops any automated threat detection efforts to URLs visited by the targets.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. As some of these solutions are pretty low-cost, they potentially offer high ROI considering the enormity of the email threat problem.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To prosper, every IT decision maker and cybersecurity leader must anticipate, and the easiest way to do this is by reviewing past performance – yours and the markets. How cybersecurity (the market) performed in 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments. Started in 2012, Vectra already stands out among the NDR marketplace, offering managed detection and response (MDR) and its threat detection and response platform.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

If the data it is trained on is biased or incomplete, it can lead to inaccurate threat detection and response which can have severe consequences. AI can also be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where hackers purposely manipulate the data to trick the system into making incorrect decisions and misclassifying threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Social engineering. Sometimes, however, there appears confusion in terms of concepts when describing solutions existing on the market. This threat is especially relevant for fast-growing organizations entering new markets or implementing business expansion initiatives. Security vulnerabilities. Configuration flaws.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 29, 2025

Top ransomware predictions for 2025Prediction 1: AI-powered social engineering attacks will surge and fuel ransomware campaignsIn 2025, threat actors will increasingly use generative AI (GenAI) to conduct more effective social engineering attacks. A top emerging AI-driven trend is voice phishing (vishing).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2025

If youre entering the cybersecurity job market, I highly recommend the Infosec Job Hunting w/ BanjoCrashland YouTube playlist. The certification industry is, ultimately, a business and students should remain conscious of marketing narratives that inflate their importance or imply that earning one guarantees employment in your field of choice.

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Andrew Hay

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Conversely, defenders will increasingly rely on AI-driven solutions for threat detection, anomaly detection, and automated response systems. Expect vendors to release more integrated solutions to streamline Zero-trust adoption, responding to a market hungry for robust, easy-to-deploy frameworks.

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Spinone

JANUARY 12, 2019

The CEO-fraud attack is a special form of social engineering that plays upon employee’s general respect and regard for C-level executives. Attacks can see success by targeting businesses in the SMB market as well as even smaller organizations, resulting in successful payouts.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. By leveraging our expertise in interacting with threat actors, we gained valuable insights into their intentions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

These factors make the US an attractive market for card fraudsters. They may use methods such as pretending to be the rightful owner (social engineering) and calling the card company's call center to confirm the limit, disabling the one-time password authentication required for card use, or using other social engineering tactics.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Vulnerability Management Product Guides 8 Best Vulnerability Scanner Tools Top 10 Open Source Vulnerability Assessment Tools 12 Top Vulnerability Management Tools Threat Intelligence and Detection At the most basic level, threat detection strategies and tools monitor networks for suspicious and anomalous activity.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Brian Levine is senior director of product security at Axway, a global security engineering organization delivering training, tools, processes and DevSecOps practices for secure applications and cloud services to the enterprise market. His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As cybercriminals leverage publicly available and custom-made AI tools to orchestrate highly targeted campaigns, exploiting the trust of individuals and organizations alike, security vendors will integrate generative AI into their toolkits to enhance threat detection and response capabilities.

Phishing 64

Phishing Mobile Encryption Social Engineering 64

Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2022

Solving Chronic Vulnerability Patching Overload Automated vulnerability management is starting to take a bigger step into the market now with more organizations honing in on security posture. These attacks target CVE-2021-26411, which is an Internet Explorer zero-day double free that was patched in March of 2021. For More: [link].

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 10, 2024

These services include threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response. Many companies offer certifications like Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), which are highly valued in the job market.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, 74% of all breaches include the human element, meaning people were involved through mistakes, misuse of privileges, use of stolen credentials, or social engineering tactics. The human element risk cannot be understated.

Retail 71

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 71

eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems. There are multiple password management solutions that are readily available in the market to help you protect your passwords with the help of passkeys.

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Software Data breaches Ransomware DDOS 98

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, 74% of all breaches include the human element, meaning people were involved through mistakes, misuse of privileges, use of stolen credentials, or social engineering tactics. The human element risk cannot be understated.

Retail 64

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. By leveraging our expertise in interacting with threat actors, we gained valuable insights into their intentions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? Employee education is a critical element of phishing prevention and threat detection.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 15, 2021

Prevention systems can adjust firewall rules on the fly to block or drop malicious traffic when it is detected but they do not have the robust identification capabilities of detection systems. IDPS tools can detect malware , socially engineered attacks and other web-based threats, including DDoS attacks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

From then on, APT became a heavily used, marketable term. The idea of the ‘advanced persistent threat’ is a bit of an abstract concept to most. Social engineering training. Dedicated detection and response. Antivirus companies like McAfee jumped on the opportunity to provide anti-APT products. What Is An APT?

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