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Artificial Intelligence meets real talk at IRISSCON 2024

BH Consulting

In her enthusiastic talk, Korucu encouraged the 400-strong audience to use the technology, get trained in it, and learn about it – and to realise its shortcomings. “We ESET’s global cybersecurity advisor Jake Moore gave an entertaining and fast-paced look at how criminals can use deepfake technology to create ‘clones’.

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Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve

Security Affairs

Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021. The analysis focuses on six Iranian hacking groups that are increasingly utilizing ransomware to either fundraise or disrupt the computer networks of the targets.

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Staying a Step Ahead of the Hack

Webroot

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns

Lenny Zeltser

Many of the attack tactics involved elements of social engineering–persuasion tactics that take advantage of human psychology to trick victims into taking actions that have aided the adversaries. Attackers tricked victims into taking risky actions. government.

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2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping

Webroot

“In 2022, the widespread growth of mobile access will increase the prevalence of mobile malware, given all of the behavior tracking capabilities,” says Grayson Milbourne, security intelligence director, Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText companies. What to expect in 2022? The new year ushers in a new wave of imminent concerns.

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7 Insights About Managing Cyber Risk You Can’t Afford To Miss

Jane Frankland

That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. Security intelligence comes with a high pay off. Only by ensuring you’ve got the right combinations of people, processes and technology can you do this.

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Six Effective Ransomware Risk Reduction Strategies

NopSec

Reducing the Risk of a Ransomware Attack – The Human Element According to the IBM Security Services 2014 Cyber Security Intelligence Index, human error is responsible for almost 95% of all security incidents. Ransomware is no different.