Social Engineering

Social Engineering

email, attacks, Google Yahoo spam Proofpoint spoofed phishing

Symantec Uses OpenAI Operator to Show Rising Threat of AI Agents

| | Agentic AI, AI and phishing attacks, AI Cybersecurity
Symantec threat researchers used OpenAI's Operator agent to carry out a phishing attack with little human intervention, illustrating the looming cybersecurity threat AI agents pose as they become more powerful. The agent ...
Security Boulevard
Cartoon of Elon Musk looking sad

No, Elon — X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine

| | Cloudflare DDoS Protection, cyber attacks during ukraine war, cyber attacks russia, Dark Storm Team, ddos, DDoS attack, Denial of Service, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, denial of service attacks, denial of service vulnerability, distributed denial of service, Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, distributed denial of service attack, Elon Musk, elon musk twitter, hacktivism ukraine cyber-attacks, Russia, Russia-Ukraine, russia-ukraine conflict, Russia's War on Ukraine, SB Blogwatch, social media, Social Media Attack, social media attacks, social media cyber attacks, Social Media Cybercrime, Social Media Exploits, Ukraine, ukraine conflict, Ukraine Cyber War, Ukraine-Russia War, Ukraine/European Security, X
X marks the botnet: Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain ...
Security Boulevard
identity, Nametag, deepfake, organizations, attacks, biometric, security, identity

Sony Removes 75,000 Deepfake Items, Highlighting a Growing Problem

| | deepfake AI, generative AI, Sony
Sony Music told UK regulators that it had to remove more than 75,000 deepfake songs and other material, the latest example of the burgeoning problem of AI-generated false videos, images, and sound ...
Security Boulevard
From Phishing to Vishing – Modern Social Engineering Attacks

From Phishing to Vishing – Modern Social Engineering Attacks

| | bec, business email compromise, credential theft, Email Protection, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, smishing, social engineering, vishing, vishing attacks
Phishing attacks have moved beyond simply sending emails with malicious links to incorporate more modern social engineering techniques, including the alarming trend of mixing in smishing (SMS phishing) and vishing (voice phishing) ...
SlashNext
EDR, threats, CrowdStrike Microsoft outages DDoS

Microsoft: Massive Malvertising Campaign Infects a Million Devices

| | infostealers, malvertising, Malware, Microsoft Threat Intelligence
A massive malvertising campaign that targeted individuals watching pirated videos on illegal streaming sites redirected them several times before landing them at GitHub repositories that hosted infostealers and other malware, according to ...
Security Boulevard
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois), Rob Joyce (former NSA director of cybersecurity), Representative John Moolenaar (R-Michigan)

‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee

| | Attacking Routers, china, China-linked Hackers, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese devices, chinese government, Chinese hardware, Chinese state-sponsored cyberattacks, Commerce Department, Congress, Consumer IoT, flawed routers, House of Representatives, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things cyber security, internetof things, internetofthings, internte-of-things, iot, Jeff Barney, John Moolenaar, OpenWrt, Peoples Republic of China, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Rob Joyce, router compromise, router exploit, router firmware security flaw, router hacking, router hijacking, router security, router vulnerabilities, SB Blogwatch, SOHO, SOHO and IoT device vulnerabilities, TP-LINK, U.S. Commerce Department, US Congress
Sino stoppage scheme: TP-Link in crosshairs, along with other brands ...
Security Boulevard
Polymorphic Extensions: The Sneaky Extension That Can Impersonate Any Browser Extension

Polymorphic Extensions: The Sneaky Extension That Can Impersonate Any Browser Extension

| | browser extension, Browsers, Cybersecurity, social engineering, technology
Imagine that your AI transcriber tool shapeshifts into your password manager, then your crypto wallet and finally into your banking app — all without your knowledge. This is exactly what polymorphic extensions can do ...
SquareX Labs - Medium
An Apple AirTag sits lost on the floor

Apple Lets Stalkers Find YOU — ‘nRootTag’ Team Breaks AirTag Crypto

| | AirTag, AirTags, Apple, Apple AirTag, apple bug, apple hack, apple hacker, Apple iCloud, BLE, bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth Protocol, bluetooth security, Bluetooth vulnerability, Find My iPhone, ICloud, icloud hack, nRootTag, OpenHayStack, SB Blogwatch
Dumb Design + Crud Code = Privacy Panic: It’s been SEVEN MONTHS, but Tim’s crew is yet to fix the bugs ...
Security Boulevard
data exfiltration, threat, inside-out, breach, security strategy, data breaches, data search, Exabeam, data, data breaches, clinical trials, breach, breaches, data, residency, sovereignty, data, breaches, data breaches, NetApp data broker FTC location data

DISA Breach Highlights Need for Stronger Oversight: AppOmni CSO

| | Cybersecurity Regulations, Data breach, DISA, National Public Data Breach
Employment screening company DISA says data of 3.3 million people was exposed in a data breach lasts year, prompting AppOmni CSO Cory Michal to say that data collection companies like DISA and ...
Security Boulevard
Cybersecurity Insights with John Hammond: YouTube Legend & Security Researcher

Cybersecurity Insights with John Hammond: YouTube Legend and Security Researcher

| | AI in Cybercrime, Capture the Flag, Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybercrime Trends, Cybersecurity, cybersecurity education, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, John Hammond, Just Hacking Training, Malware Analysis, online training, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, Security Researcher, Shared Security Podcast, Snyk Event, social engineering, technology, Web security, Weekly Edition, YouTube
In this episode, we welcome cybersecurity researcher and YouTube legend John Hammond. John shares insights from his career at Huntress and his popular YouTube channel, where he creates educational content on cybersecurity ...
Shared Security Podcast
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