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Today’s cybersecurity health checks must identify AI based threats. Does yours?
Your organization will most likely face AI based threats in cybersecurity at some point this year. And as such, you can’t rely on outdated risk assessment methodologies that struggle to keep pace ...
CISOs Increasingly Concerned About Mobile Threats
A new warning from Verizon about the rise of smishing, spam text messages and text scams and the FBI reporting $10.3 billion in internet fraud last year, CISOs are increasingly concerned about ...
SMS Phishers Harvested Phone Numbers, Shipment Data from UPS Tracking Tool
The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. "smishing") messages ...
Listen to These Recordings: Deepfake Social Engineering Scams Are Scaring Victims
Deepfake social engineering scams have become an increasingly scary trend among cybercriminals to socially engineer victims into submission. The threat actors are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) voice cloning ...
Mobile Threats Increase as Hackers Exploit the Lack of BYOD Security
The rising trend of employees using personal devices for work has cybercriminals directing focus towards mobile devices for launching attacks. The lack of security protection and accessibility of sensitive information on these ...
Permiso Discovers Smishing Attack to Steal AWS Credentials
Permiso, a provider of a platform for correlating IT events to identities, today disclosed the discovery of an attack through which cybercriminals are employing text messages to steal credentials that enable them ...
Lessons from a Scam Artist
What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology […] ...
SMiShing Testing and Policy: Update it Today!
For years, we have known about phishing as an effective vector into corporate networks. Malicious actors use phishing to obtain […] ...
Social Engineering and Healthcare
Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. So much so that the Federal […] ...
Be Wary of Scammers in the Holiday Season
As 2022 comes to a close, stress can be at an all-time high. This time of year, many have planned […] ...
