social engineering attacks
Bing Chat Malware Alert: Stay Safe from Malicious Sites
In a concerning development, fraudulent advertising has infiltrated Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI chatbot, possibly exposing unsuspecting users to malware-infected websites. These Bing Chat malware findings shed light on a new channel that ...
Psychological Manipulation in Social Engineering: Unveiling the Tactics
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you felt like someone was trying to manipulate you into doing something you didn’t want to do? Perhaps it was a friend, family ...
Samsung Chipset Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, AI-Assisted Social Engineering, ATM Fraud with a Twist
In this episode we discuss Google’s discovery of 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung’s Exynos chipsets. We examine an AI-assisted social engineering campaign that combines emerging technologies with classic techniques. Finally, we look ...
How Brand Protection Can Address the Risk of GAN Deepfakes
Deepfakes are a concept that has taken root in popular culture. Most deepfakes are benign; the good ones go viral and can often make us laugh. But in the very near future, ...
Fall for Phishing? You Could Get Fired
One in four employees lost their job in the last 12 months after making a mistake that compromised their company’s security, according to a report from email security company Tessian. While the ...
Cybercriminals Using QR Codes to Steal Financial Info, FBI Warns
Cybercriminals are tampering with quick response (QR) codes to redirect victims to malicious sites that steal login and financial information, the FBI warned in an alert published last week. QR codes are ...
Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World
As per an article by The Hindu, 50,035 cases of cybercrime were reported in 2020, 11.8% more than in 2019 while 60.2% of cybercrimes were of fraud. Every organization or institution has ...
Propaganda as a Social Engineering Tool
Remember WYSIWYG? What you see is what you get. That was a simpler time in technology; you knew what the end result would be during the development stage. There were no surprises ...
Stopping Sophisticated Social Engineering Scams – Looking Beyond the Basic Signs
Most social engineering attack signs are really indicators for basic attacks from less experienced and sophisticated hackers. Today’s attacks are more sophisticated ...
Threat Discovery: Attackers are Abusing Adobe Open Redirect Service to Serve Phishing
As we’ve blogged about before, cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging legitimate commercial infrastructure sites to […] ...
