Humans Will Give AI Anything If You Make It Sound Cool Enough
There's a beautiful moment happening right now, and by "beautiful" I mean "horrifying in that can't-look-away-from-the-car-crash sense”.
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There's a beautiful moment happening right now, and by "beautiful" I mean "horrifying in that can't-look-away-from-the-car-crash sense”.
Social engineering remained the top initial access vector for cyberattacks in 2025, with increasing assistance from AI tools, according to a report from ThreatDown. The researchers warn ...
AI-driven fraud attacks spiked by more than 1200% in December 2025, according to a new report by Pindrop Security. Threat actors are using AI to assist in every stage of the attack, from ...
Prior to my further research into AI and quantum for my latest book, How AI and Quantum Impact Cyber Threats and Defenses, I had pretty solid password policy recommendations:
Cybercriminals are abusing legitimate invoices and dispute notifications from popular services to send scam emails that bypass security filters, according to researchers at Kaseya’s INKY. ...
There's a moment in every security professional's career when they realise the game has fundamentally changed. Mine came last Tuesday at 3:47 PM, watching my colleague Erich argue with an ...
North Korean hackers continue to target software developers via social engineering attacks, according to researchers at Recorded Future.
Researchers at Okta warn that a series of phishing kits have emerged that are designed to help threat actors launch sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) attacks that can bypass ...
Valentine’s Day is usually a time for flowers and candlelight, but in recent years the digital dating landscape has shifted from a place of hope to a high-tech minefield. While ...
If you look back just a couple of years, the digital landscape looks almost unrecognizable. We’ve moved from AI being a cool new tool to it being at the heart of our online lives.
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 warn of a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack technique in which threat actors could use AI tools to generate malicious JavaScript in real time on ...
Commodity phishing platforms are now a central component of the cybercriminal economy, according to researchers at Flare. These platforms allow threat actors of all skill levels to carry ...
A new survey by Vodafone Business found that more than 10% of companies in the UK would likely go out of business if they were hit by a major cyber incident, such as a ransomware attack, ...
A phishing campaign is abusing LinkedIn private messages to target executives and IT workers, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. The messages attempt to trick victims into opening an ...
One of my first intentional “to-dos” this year has been spending time with the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, a report I was privileged to actively contribute ...
With organizations collecting and storing massive amounts of personal data these days, much of which people share freely, we need to become better at protecting data on both the storing ...
Scammers are increasingly using visually stylized QR codes to deliver phishing links, Help Net Security reports. QR code phishing (quishing) is already more difficult to detect, since ...
Forty percent of employees have never received cybersecurity training, according to a new report from Yubico. That number rises to nearly sixty percent for employees working for small ...
A widespread phishing campaign is targeting LinkedIn users by posting comments on users’ posts, BleepingComputer reports. Threat actors are using bots to post the comments, which ...
For those of you who are like me, when I first heard about the new EU AI Act, I had flashbacks to the implementation of the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) back in 2018. There are ...
