CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Once the recording (for this is what it turned out to be) began with the next line in the pre-programmed speech, with no acknowledgement of my response, I knew I was dealing with a robot powered by technology that simulated a real voice. With every passing day attackers grow more and more intelligent, creative, and technologically advanced.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is also a celebration of Canadian thought leadership on very important business and technology topics that are directly impacting Canadians quality of life as well as their pocketbooks." Key findings: the cyber threat landscape in 2025 1.

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Webroot

JANUARY 21, 2025

Todays adversaries employ advanced tactics like cross-domain attacks, use of stolen credentials, and sophisticated social engineering campaigns to infiltrate systems. Its not just about waiting for an alert; it’s about actively searching for hidden threats in real-time.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This practice is said to be leading to social engineering based cyber attacks like online fraud and phishing attacks. With AI technology on hand, the task becomes easier than it can be completed in just a few secs/mins.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Quantum computing focuses on developing computer technology based on principles that describe how particles and energy react at the atomic and subatomic levels. While the science is a bit muddy for those who are not quantum theory experts, we can all agree that quantum computing is faster than any other computing technology.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Organizations should likewise leverage GenAI to better detect AI-enhanced threats and counter the attack volumes that we expect to see in 2024. They’ll make adept use of social engineering, leverage insider knowledge of systems and workflows and exploit weak cloud configurations and porly implemented multi-factor authentication.

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The report explores major findings and this year it put a spotlight on the complexity of the cybersecurity landscape, which is intensified by geopolitical tensions, emerging technologies, supply chain interdependencies, and cybercrime sophistication. Nation-states and geopolitical tensions are increasingly fuelling modern cyber threats.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

The technology that corrals malicious software circulating through desktop PCs, laptops and mobile devices has evolved into a multi-layered security technology referred to as ‘endpoint security.’. So next, threat actors focused on honing techniques to gain access to privileged accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

As technology evolves and our dependence on digital systems increases, the cybersecurity threat landscape also rapidly changes, posing fresh challenges for organizations striving to protect their assets and data. The common maxim today is that when it comes to breaches, it’s no longer a case of ‘if’ but ‘when’ or ‘how often?’.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Advanced tools employing AI can enhance threat detection capabilities. Train Employees Educating employees about phishing and social engineering tactics can reduce the likelihood of attackers gaining initial access to networks. Provide incentives for adopting advanced security technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft. Erin: What cybersecurity technologies are you most excited about right now? How can individuals and organizations detect and protect themselves against the misuse of deep fake technology?

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The trend continued in their most recent quarterly threat trends report which highlighted identity and improper use of MFA as key vectors for attack. These findings are not surprising, given that identity technology, which originated in IT, has become increasingly complex over the past decade.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

"Threat hunters are using AI to identify unusual patterns and summarize large amounts of data, connecting the dots across multiple sources of information and hidden patterns. The work still requires human experts, but Ahlberg says the generative AI technology we're seeing in projects like ChatGPT can help." against and 6.7%

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Leaders guiding their organisations today need to know how to balance AI’s benefits – like real-time threat detection, rapid response, and automated defences – with new risks and complexities. We overestimate AI,” she said. Drowning in data? Many of these attacks are preventable, he added.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. We analyzed phishing detections separately for users of our home and business products. ” scams to complex social engineering plots with fake stores and delivery tracking apps.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 18, 2025

Technological defenses: Utilizing mobile security solutions that can detect and block potential phishing attempts adds an additional layer of protection. The sheer volumewith over 10,000 registered fake domains impersonating toll services across at least 10 statesshows how sophisticated and widespread this threat has become.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

We recorded a mean time of just four minutes between the initial email wave and the phishing message, with another four minutes to establish command-and-control (C2), demonstrating how quickly threat actors can move. For many years, threat actors have been co-opting legitimate pentesting tools to exploit vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. The solution includes cloud sandboxing technology, preventing zero-day threats, and full disk encryption capability for enhanced data protection. Improved Data Security.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord. This allows cybercriminals to bypass at least some detection technologies. Social engineering elements.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image Source: AI Generated Recent data breaches have exposed sensitive information from millions of customers across healthcare, financial services, and technology sectors. Role of Social Engineering Social engineering has emerged as the predominant attack vector, accounting for 41% of initial breach incidents.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

These research findings have widespread implications for the security community in understanding how threat actors are not only manipulating generative AI platforms for malicious purposes but also creating entirely new platforms based on the same technology, specifically designed to do their ill-bidding.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Retailers are becoming more vulnerable to cyber threats, especially as the industry continues to digitize and more e-commerce businesses emerge. More technology being used to increase operational efficiency means retailers face a higher risk of cyber incidents. Keeping technology up to date is critical.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

On one hand, AI has been hailed as a game-changing technology with the potential to transform industries and improve our daily lives. On the other hand, it’s been portrayed as a potential threat to our privacy, security, creativity and even mankind’s existence. One of its major limitations is its reliance on data.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

Organizations can use threat hunting and behavioral analytics to spot early signs of ransomware attacks, such as unusual file encryption or lateral movement. Additionally, deception technologies like honeypots can divert attackers and provide valuable intelligence to refine response plans.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

"As cyber threats evolve, organizations must prioritize protecting customer data. Cybersecurity technologies protecting these environments must cover every user, on every device, from every location." Education, education, education: Stay informed about the latest cybersecurity threats and best practices.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As technology advances at speed, it enables just as many opportunities as it introduces threats. Gains come but so do threats and losses. They want less friction and that’s why top talent is more often judging a company based on its employee experience (EX) and the technologies it provides. We see this in business.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2024

New trends, technologies, and techniques reshape the landscape at an extraordinary pace, meaning keeping up can be challenging. So, as we race into the new year, and as technology and risks evolve, efforts will be focused on varying frontiers. Cloud providers and businesses must comply with local data sovereignty laws.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Brian Levine is senior director of product security at Axway, a global security engineering organization delivering training, tools, processes and DevSecOps practices for secure applications and cloud services to the enterprise market. John Bruggeman is chief technology officer at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments. Darktrace DETECT Features. Companies have plenty of integrations to choose from for tools like EDR, SIEM, threat intelligence, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. As some of these solutions are pretty low-cost, they potentially offer high ROI considering the enormity of the email threat problem.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. This continued slowed growth that began in Q2 2024 likely stems from the enhanced detection capabilities of endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2025

Threat actors used AI tools to orchestrate highly convincing and scalable social engineering campaigns, making it easier to deceive users and infiltrate systems. This trend, among other AI-powered social engineering attacks, will amplify identity compromise, ransomware, and data exfiltration in 2025.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

Social engineering. Social engineering is the most prevalent way threat actors find their way into your environment. Disguising themselves as legitimate web sites, email, and customer service entities they depend on people’s kindness, willingness to help and urgency to resolve perceived threats/problems.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

Leveraging a managed service rather than buying a security point solution gives your SMB fixed-cost access to enterprise-grade technology and expertise you might otherwise not be able to afford. In addition, monitoring all application, database, file shares, and authentication sources provide key telemetry for threat detection.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2024

The use of voice-based social engineering to gain entry into networks is on the rise—a technique made popular by Scattered Spider and the Qakbot threat group. It can also help find and stop possible attackers from moving around through identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and deception capabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Defending our technology against cyber threats is an increasingly important issue, and these grants will allow our cities and towns to train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.” “As As a former mayor, I know that cyber attacks are a constant threat to municipalities.

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