Phishing attacks are now the top vector for ransomware delivery, according to researchers at Digital Defense. Phishing emails can be highly tailored to specific employees in order to trick them into downloading malicious files. “Phishing emails are easy to send…
It's time for you and your colleagues to become more skeptical about what you read. That's a takeaway from a series of experiments undertaken using GPT-3 AI text-generating interfaces to create malicious messages designed to spear-phish, scam, harrass, and spread…
Government workers are prime targets for social engineering attacks, according to Kaitlyn Levinson at GCN. Attackers use different tactics to target government employees in specific roles. Levinson quotes Rita Reynolds, Chief Information Officer for the National Association of Counties, as…
An Italian citizen named Filippo Bernardini has pleaded guilty in New York to stealing more than a thousand unpublished book manuscripts from various well-known authors. The targeted authors included Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Sally Rooney, and Ethan Hawke. Bernardini worked…
The United Kingdom is preparing legislation to help people prove their identity online. In a draft legislation to support identity verification published this month, the government outlined its goal to improve online identity verification and enable better data sharing between…
Reuters describes a cyberespionage campaign carried out by the hitherto little-known threat group researchers track as "Cold River." The group is circumstantially but convincingly linked to Russian intelligence services (possibly the FSB, although that's unclear) through its Russophone operations and…
