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Social Engineering 2.0: The Rise of Deepfake Phishing

SecureWorld News

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams

Identity IQ

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust.

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Human Hacking Conference 2021 Goes Virtual!

Security Through Education

The HHC was created by Chris Hadnagy, the CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. After running several social engineering villages at other conferences, Chris was inspired to create his own conference. The conference centered around training workshops that allow attendees to learn skills from professionals of various fields.

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Europol warns of criminal use of ChatGPT

Security Affairs

Cybercriminal groups can use chatbot like ChatGPT in social engineering attacks, disinformation campaigns, and other cybercriminal activities, such as developing malicious code. Disinformation: ChatGPT excels at producing authentic sounding text at speed and scale. ” reads the alert published by the Europol.

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Charting a Course to Zero Trust Maturity: 5 Steps to Securing User Access to Apps

Duo's Security Blog

Threat actors have dramatically escalated their attacks – targeting security controls like multi-factor authentication (MFA), conducting wily social engineering attacks and extorting businesses large and small with ransomware. For strategic guidance and access to hands-on labs, register for one of our free Zero Trust Workshops.

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News alert: AppDirect poll reveals company leaders losing sleep over cyber risks, compliance

The Last Watchdog

Best-in-class training, with testing and regular retraining and testing, will go a long way to mitigate the risks of social engineering security breaches.” Cybersecurity solutions are forecast to be a top purchase in the immediate future. IT business leaders are prioritizing security measures in 2024, with 74.4%

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Reduce your helpdesk burden 20-50%

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Keystroke logging, phishing, and social engineering attacks are equally effective on lengthy, complex passwords as simple ones…the benefit of (complex) rules is not nearly as significant as initially thought although the impact on usability and memorability is severe.”. One authentication method handles all three situations.