Cybersecurity experts expect to see threat actors increasingly make use of AI tools to craft convincing social engineering attacks, according to Eric Geller at the Messenger. “One of AI’s biggest advantages is that it can write complete and coherent English…
As large organizations realize the likelihood of cyber attacks and improve their cyber readiness, small businesses are seeing increases not experienced by their larger counterparts. If I was to tell you that cyber attacks typically focus on larger businesses, you’d…
Microsoft is tracking a cybercriminal group called “Octo Tempest” that uses threats of violence as part of its social engineering and data theft extortion campaigns. “Octo Tempest is a financially motivated collective of native English-speaking threat actors known for launching…
Researchers at INKY warn that a phishing campaign is attempting to distribute malware by impersonating PepsiCo. “As usual, it all starts with a phishing email,” the researchers write. “In this case, the phishers are impersonating the PepsiCo brand, pretending to…
You probably expect executive leadership to not just support cybersecurity efforts, but to be involved. New data shows organizations have a way to go until this is a reality. Even if an organization is completely supportive of the cybersecurity strategy,…
A new technique is becoming increasingly common as a way to bypass security scanners. The challenge is that the specific execution is constantly evolving, making it difficult to detect, but not impossible to spot. In an earlier time when trains…
