SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

With advances in artificial intelligence, disinformation become full conversations, and information could become a pervasive threat requiring training or even evaluation tools to evade. AI could impact more than just social engineering. With greater immediacy comes lessor critical thinking, the researchers warned.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In 2023, we might see a slight decline in ransomware attacks, reflecting the slowdown of the cryptocurrency markets. Since 2020, therefore, forms of spear phishing, social engineering and CEO fraud, as well as ransomware, become increasingly prevalent and will continue to be of considerable importance in 2023.

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Cybersecurity Cyber Insurance Cybercrime IoT 144

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In late 2024, Russian ransomware groups began collaborating with native English speakers, boosting their social engineering capabilities. The group social-engineered the organization’s help desk, employing fluent English to achieve a reset of a compromised account’s password.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In late 2024, Russian ransomware groups began collaborating with native English speakers, boosting their social engineering capabilities. The group social-engineered the organization’s help desk, employing fluent English to achieve a reset of a compromised account’s password.

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Social Engineering Cybersecurity DDOS Ransomware 52

Andrew Hay

DECEMBER 10, 2024

AI-Powered Threats and Defenses The ubiquity of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is inevitable. As payments via cryptocurrencies grow harder to track due to improved privacy tools, law enforcement agencies will face mounting challenges in pursuing perpetrators.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is particularly notable in the case of Lazarus APT, specifically its attacks against cryptocurrency investors in May. The attackers employed social engineering techniques to gain persistent access to the software development environment and remained undetected for years.

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IoT Energy and Utilities Phishing Cryptocurrency 115

Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Whether you’re a crypto-skeptic or a crypto-maximalist, it cannot be denied that the mostly unregulated cryptocurrency ecosystem is no stranger to fraud. To conduct attacks specifically linked to cryptocurrency, threat actors must usually cooperate within a web of associates—just like any other area of cyber crime.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Many organizations are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to make decisions or perform intelligent analysis. The ransomware then demands a sum of money in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency to unlock the data to regain access. Both technologies rely on massive amounts of data.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT—the much-hyped, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that provides human-like responses from an enormous knowledge base—has been embraced practically everywhere, from private sector businesses to K–12 classrooms. As of November 2022, people can no longer ignore the artificial elephant in the room.

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Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 92

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Throughout 2022, LAPSUS$ would hack and social engineer their way into some of the world’s biggest technology companies , including EA Games, Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta , Samsung , and T-Mobile. ViLE In June 2024, two American men pleaded guilty to hacking into a U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Enter the age of the deepfake, where artificial intelligence becomes a weapon of misinformation, and celebrities like Taylor Swift are just pixels away from a digital doppelganger nightmare. Social engineering: Deepfakes can impersonate celebrities, extract sensitive information from fans, or manipulate public opinion.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately for Griffin, years ago he used Google Photos to store an image of the secret seed phrase that was protecting his cryptocurrency wallet. Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo. io ) that mimicked the official Trezor website.

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Cryptocurrency Accountability Authentication Phishing 363

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. A deepfake is a combination of Artificial Intelligence “deep learning” and that watchword of the 2010s: “fake.”.

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