Silent Data Extortion Campaign Hits US Law Firms Through Vishing and Remote Access Abuse

What happened A financially motivated threat group is conducting a targeted data theft and extortion campaign against US legal, professional, and financial services firms using a blend of phishing, voice-based social engineering, ...
Best of the Worst: The Week Your Security Tools Became the Disguise

Best of the Worst: The Week Your Security Tools Became the Disguise

TL;DR This week's Attack of the Day posts revealed a clear pattern: attackers are deliberately routing attacks through legitimate security and platform infrastructure so the tools themselves become trust signals. TitanHQ and ...
IBM, data, breaches,

Salesforce Refuses to Pay Ransom to Data-Stealing Hackers

Salesforce is refusing a demand by the hackers behind that widespread data-stealing attacks on its customers, which threatened to release massive amounts of the data unless the SaaS vendor negotiated a ransom ...
Security Boulevard
Using AI to Identify Patterns in Vishing Attempts

Using AI to Identify Patterns in Vishing Attempts

| | Cybersecurity, NLP, vishing
AI-powered defenses offer clear strategic advantages for telecom providers and enterprise security teams to help combat vishing attacks ...
Security Boulevard
New Spin on Vishing: Attackers Are Now Targeting Healthcare Appointments

New Spin on Vishing: Attackers Are Now Targeting Healthcare Appointments

| | vishing
When we think about vishing (voice phishing), the usual suspects come to mind: fake refund scams impersonating Norton, PayPal, or Geek Squad ...
This Caller Does Not Exist: Using AI to Conduct Vishing Attacks

This Caller Does Not Exist: Using AI to Conduct Vishing Attacks

As technology advances, attackers are quick to adapt, using cutting-edge innovations to craft social engineering attacks that exploit the one […] ...
From Phishing to Vishing – Modern Social Engineering Attacks

From Phishing to Vishing – Modern Social Engineering 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) ...