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Indian Rail Passenger Ticketing Platform Warns of Online Fraud

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), described as “a popular platform used by a significant number of Indians for booking train tickets,” has cautioned users about ...

[Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering To An AI

Remember The Sims? Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people". The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very ...

Affinity Phishing Attacks Use Social Engineering Tactics to Prey on Victims

Affinity phishing scams are ones in which criminals cultivate trust in their prospective victims by trading on common background, either real or feigned. Thus a fraudster might claim a ...

Large Language Models Will Change How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Revolutionize Email Scams

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) is the fine tuning AI engines like ChatGPT need to focus the scam email output to only effective content that results in a wave of new email scams.

‘Support’ Tops the List of Combosquatted Domains Used in Phishing Attacks

A method used in domain impersonation attacks, combosquatting aids the threat actor by using a modified domain name to further increase the credibility of an attack.

Recent Artificial Intelligence Hype is Used for Phishbait

Curiosity leads people to suspend their better judgment as a new campaign of credential theft exploits a person’s excitement about the newest AI systems not yet available to the general ...

Win The AI Wars To Enhance Security And Decrease Cyber Risk

With all the overwrought hype with ChatGPT and AI…much of it earned…you could be forgiven for thinking that only the bad actors are going to be using these advanced technologies and the ...

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #15 [The New Face of Fraud] FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #15 | April 11th, 2023 [The New Face of Fraud] FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams The Federal Trade Commission is alerting consumers about a ...

Top Takeaways You Could be Missing Out on my Upcoming Ransomware Master Class

There is no doubt that ransomware is one of the top cybersecurity challenges of our lifetime. Survey after survey has revealed senior management and IT employees from the top on down, ...

[Free Tool] See Which Users Are Susceptible to Risky Security Behavior with SecurityCoach Free Preview!

The human factor is involved in 82% of data breaches, according to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques like phishing, ...

[Jaw-Dropper] FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad

4/11/2023 - Gizmodo just dropped this eye-roll inducing news. The disgraced crypto exchange had no dedicated cybersecurity staff and "protected" users assets with minimal safeguards, ...

Alarming Tax Phishing Campaign Targets US with Malware

Researchers at Securonix are tracking an ongoing phishing campaign dubbed “TACTICAL#OCTOPUS” that’s been targeting users in the US with tax-related phishing emails.

[INFOGRAPHIC] The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of KnowBe4 by the Numbers

KnowBe4 commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM study* examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by deploying KnowBe4's ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from March 2023

Check out the 49 new pieces of training content added in March, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

Recently Exposed North Korean Threat Actor APT43 Targeting Organizations With Spear Phishing

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published a report describing the activities of “ARCHIPELAGO,” a subset of the North Korean state-sponsored threat actor APT43. ARCHIPELAGO’s ...

New Emotet Phishing Campaign Pretends to be the IRS Delivering W-9 Forms

A newly documented phishing campaign demonstrates how timely themes can be impactful in creating a successful attack that gets the recipient to engage with malicious content.

FBI: Business Email Compromise Attacks Are Being Used to Make Bulk Goods Purchases from Vendors

A new public service announcement focuses on a specific form of BEC attack using little more than a spoofed domain and common vendor payment practices to steal hardware, supplies and more.

1 in 8 Email Threats Now Make It Past Email Security Solutions

Phishing attacks that can evade detection by email scanners are improving their chances of reaching the inbox, thanks to an increase in the use of one specific attachment type.

"We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet."

This MIT Technology Review headline caught my eye, and I think you understand why. They described a new type of exploit called prompt injection.

FBI: 870 Critical Infrastructure Organizations Were the Victim of Ransomware in 2022

The FBI’s newly-released report shows just how ransomware continues to plague critical infrastructure sectors, despite the U.S. government’s recent efforts to stop these attacks.


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