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Organizations have strengthened security measures and become more resilient, but threat actors are still finding ways through, according to BakerHostetler. “We launched the Data Security Incident Response Report nine years ago because we recognized tha…
Security teams face unique challenges in today’s rapidly-changing landscape of phishing, malware, and other social engineering and cybersecurity threats. Collaboration across disparate teams and siloed tools adds additional layers of complexit…
Wired just published an interesting story about political bias that can show up in LLM’s due to their training. It is becoming clear that training an LLM to exhibit a certain bias is relatively easy. This is a reason for concern, because this …
It was all over the news. Fed’s Jerome Powell was social engineered by Russian pranksters posing as Zelensky.
Poker players and other human lie detectors look for “tells,” that is, a sign by which someone might unwittingly or involuntarily reveal what they know, or what they intend to do. A cardplayer yawns when he’s about to bluff, for example, or so…
QBot malware seems to be outliving its competitors through innovative new ways to socially engineer victims into helping install it.
The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a Kali Linux operating system software program. SET is a powerful tool for conducting various social engineering attacks, including phishing, spear-phishing, and other social engineering attacks. Multiple attack vectors: SET provides a variety of attack vectors, including email, SMS, USB, and more. Easy customization: SET makes it easy to […]
We’ve had occasion to write about ChatGPT’s potential for malign use in social engineering, both in the generation of phishbait at scale and as a topical theme that can appear in lures. We continue to track concerns about the new technology as…
You may not have heard of this service planned for July 2023, but it promises a massive new social engineering attack surface. This is from their website:”About the FedNowSM Service. The FedNow Service is a new instant payment infrastructure d…
A FBI bulletin highlights a new twist in the sextortion game: companies claiming to assist with addressing sextortion who use deceptive social engineering tactics to coerce victims into paying huge fees.