Category: AI in news
Problems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registration: On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts… …the portal suffered…
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Espionage An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra. “GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control (C&C) server hosted on Microsoft mail services,” Symantec, part of Broadcom,…
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananAndroid / Mobile Security, Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a new technique adopted by threat actors behind the Chameleon Android banking trojan targeting users in Canada by masquerading as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app. “Chameleon was seen masquerading as a CRM app, targeting a Canadian restaurant chain operating internationally,”…
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Indeed, during the most recent RSA Conference I had executives remark on more than one occasion how marketing plans were being revealed through AI engine queries such as “how does Xyz Inc. plan to go to market?” The engine had been schooled on the content previously and presented it in the response — someone somewhere…
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For example, instead of reporting figures relating to the applications connected to active directory, which Ballarin says doesn’t speak to security’s impact on business success, the security leaders share how investments in incident response and recovery have shortened the downtime that could be expected in the case of an event and — more to the…
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Several events have particularly contributed to this, not least threat incidents like NotPetya and regulatory developments like the passage of the European Union’s GDPR, with the result that cyber insurance premiums have grown by almost 25 times since just 2015. One size doesn’t fit all: the insurance view of cyber risk Most major healthcare network…
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The most damaging cyber threats today don’t target machines or systems—they target humans. Today, 74% of data breaches rely on exploiting the human element. From employees clicking on malicious links to being deceived by emails posing as executives and suppliers, human-targeted attacks jeopardize businesses worldwide every day. When it comes to targeted email threats, Proofpoint…
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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT have extensive business value. They can write content, clean up context, mimic writing styles and tone, and more. But what if bad actors abuse these capabilities to create highly convincing, targeted and automated phishing messages at scale? No need to wonder as it’s already happening. Not long after…
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What happened Proofpoint recently identified a cluster of activity conducting malicious email campaigns using piano-themed messages to lure people into advance fee fraud (AFF) scams. The campaigns have occurred since at least January 2024, and are ongoing. Most of the messages target students and faculty at colleges and universities in North America, however other targeting…
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Background Last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 330,000 reports of business impersonation scams and nearly 160,000 reports of government impersonation scams. This represents about half of all the fraud reported directly to the FTC. The financial losses due to email impersonation scams are staggering. They topped $1.1 billion in 2023, which…
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