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Cybercrime with ChatGPT
31 March 2023
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Cybercrime with ChatGPT

With every improvement in ChatGPT, there is growing concern that it could be misused on a large scale, particularly by cybercrime, and that it would greatly increase the online threat situation. The past has shown that technological innovations have always been misused by cybercriminals. This certainly also applies to ChatGPT. All sorts of new uses are being devised for this conversational AI. The writing of applications or articles as well as the use as a search engine. In the latest version even to create images. This has certainly not escaped the notice of the cybercriminals. And that ChatGPT is free and not to use…

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Phishing attacks hit all-time high
23 March 2023
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Phishing attacks hit all-time high

More than 30 percent of businesses and consumers were exposed to mobile phishing attacks in each quarter of 2022. Heavily regulated industries such as banking and insurance were hit the hardest. Lookout has released its Global State of Mobile Phishing Report. According to the data, 2022 saw the highest percentage of mobile phishing attacks ever, with an average of more than 30 percent of businesses and consumers exposed to these attacks each quarter. Lookout also found that users across all devices, whether personal or work, received more mobile phishing links...

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Defense against phishing mails with dangerous QR codes
5 March 2023
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More and more phishing emails try to disguise their dangerousness by hiding dangerous links behind QR codes. This poses a growing threat to email security. Hornetsecurity is now using new technology to counter it. Cybersecurity provider Hornetsecurity is launching two new tools - QR Code Analyzer and Secure Links - to combat growing cyber threats. Hornetsecurity is thus reacting to the increasing number of fake QR codes and the ongoing threat of phishing, which accounts for 40 percent of all cyber attacks. QR code analysis and email link checks Research by Hornetsecurity Labs has shown that cybercriminals are increasingly…

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Modern BEC phishing: billions of dollars stolen 
5 March 2023
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Modern phishing: billions of dollars stolen

Business email compromise (BEC) is big business for cybercriminals. According to the 2021 FBI Cybercrime Study, BEC phishing was responsible for nearly $2021 billion in losses in 2,4. BEC is basically a type of phishing attack. Lookout examines how modern phishing has evolved beyond email. With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, attackers are now going far beyond email. They are now also using other platforms such as text messages, messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, and social media apps to attack their targets...

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IT threats: for a handful of dollars
18 February 2023
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IT threats: for a handful of dollars

In the new, hybrid world, IT users work from anywhere - with many new ways to connect applications and devices. This places a great deal of responsibility on end users, as many of the most common and widespread threats, such as phishing, are designed to interact with end users. This fact often makes people, rather than technology, an organization's first line of defense to ward off attackers. For the best possible protection, organizations need to know what to protect against and how to educate all employees about the latest threats...

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Evaluation 2022: Phishing attacks with a 100 percent increase
18 February 2023
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According to Kaspersky Telemetry, the number of such phishing attacks has doubled in the past year. The company's anti-phishing system successfully blocked 2022 attempts to access fraudulent content in 507.851.735, double the number of attacks blocked the year before. Although spam and phishing attacks are not technologically complex, cybercriminals sometimes use sophisticated social engineering tactics to get the job done. In addition, phishing websites are emerging that look confusingly similar to the legitimate ones, thereby enticing users to reveal personal information or online banking login details. Over 500 million phishing emails The fraudsters most frequently used delivery services…

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Minimize the risk of phishing
12 February 2023
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Minimize the risk of phishing

Hardly a month goes by without warnings about new phishing attacks. Phishing remains one of the top cyber threats. With eight central measures, companies can significantly minimize the risk of attack. Attackers' phishing methods are becoming more and more sophisticated using the latest technologies. The fact that more and more employees are working on the go or from their home office and are sometimes switching between company and private devices also plays into the hands of the attackers. In addition, hackers benefit from three developments in particular: Employees are spending more and more time of their private lives online, making it easy for attackers to...

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KI ChatGPT as cyber criminals
30 January 2023
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KI ChatGPT as cyber criminals

Since the furious start of ChatGPT, not only millions of people have been using artificial intelligence to get travel tips or to have scientific contexts explained. Security researchers and cyber criminals are also trying to figure out how the tool can be used for cyber attacks. Actually, the software should not recommend criminal acts. White hat hacker Kody Kinzie tried out how this still works and where the limits of intelligence lie. Illegal and unethical At the beginning there is a simple question: "How can I hack a certain company?" The chatbot seems to be trained for requests of this kind, because in...

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Phishing Report shows the current email traps
30 January 2023
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In its new Brand Phishing Report for the fourth quarter of 2022, Check Point presents the new phishing threats. The report highlights the brands most frequently impersonated by hackers in their attempts to steal personal information or payment details in the months of October, November and December of the past year. In general, the technology sector was the industry most impersonated by brand phishing in the last quarter of 2022, followed by logistics and social media. DHL ranked second with 16 percent of all branded phishing attempts, ahead of Microsoft in third…

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Security: Bosses fall for phishing the most
27 January 2023
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Security: Bosses fall for phishing the most

While decision-makers and bosses expect employees to have a high level of cyber security awareness, they most often fall for phishing, use bad passwords or share them outside of the company. An interesting Ivanti study. The security provider Ivanti has published the results of the international study "State of Security Preparedness 2023". Accordingly, German companies are only partially able to effectively fend off attacks. There are major gaps, especially in the areas of patch management and protection against attacks via the supply chain. For the study, Ivanti recruited 6.500 employees worldwide from three functional levels...

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