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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

While organizations can invest in sophisticated cybersecurity and threat detection solutions to detect anomalous network and system activity, a socially-engineered conversation between a malicious actor and an untrained employee can easily slip under the radar. How does AI-powered social engineering affect businesses?

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Beyond the Inbox: ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report Reveals How Phishing Is Evolving in the Age of GenAI

Security Boulevard

as a result of stronger email authentication protocols like DMARC and Googles sender verification, which blocked 265 billion unauthenticated emails.Education is under attack: Phishing in education surged 224%, with threat actors exploiting academic calendars, financial aid deadlines, and weak security defenses.

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. Read more: What is Network Security? To identify patterns suggestive of spear phishing attacks (e.g.,

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5 Critical Threat Actors You Need to Know About

Digital Shadows

Endurance: IntelBroker’s Evolving Malware Tool IntelBroker has demonstrated advanced malware skills with the development of the open-source ransomware Endurance, which evades traditional antivirus and intrusion detection systems. The ransomware’s open-source nature also serves as a gateway for budding threat actors to enter cybercrime.

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5 Critical Threat Actors You Need to Know About

Digital Shadows

Endurance: IntelBroker’s Evolving Malware Tool IntelBroker has demonstrated advanced malware skills with the development of the open-source ransomware Endurance, which evades traditional antivirus and intrusion detection systems. The ransomware’s open-source nature also serves as a gateway for budding threat actors to enter cybercrime.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

Social media will become even more of a cesspool of AI and human-created garbage.” This will increase the maturity of current security practices and accelerate the adoption of solutions like Cloud Investigation and Response Automation and Cloud Native Threat Detection and Response.”