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New scam Deep Fake Boss
26. February 2024
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B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Unlike classic scams such as the email-based boss scam, the Deep Fake Boss method uses high-tech manipulation to steal money. An employee, often in the finance department, appears to be personally instructed by company management to transfer money. The instructions are given convincingly in the form of a video conference in which the “boss” is supposedly present. Richard Werner, Business Consultant at Trend Micro: The “boss scam” is one of the so-called “confidence scams” ​​– i.e. fraud that has to do with the victim’s belief. The story and overall impression must be right. Already…

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Identity theft, AI and deep fakes
14. February 2024
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In the last year, credential interception attacks, such as those exploiting the Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, have resulted in cybercriminal groups having millions of potential logins. In 2024, the number of cyberattacks using stolen or fake digital identities will continue to rise. This circumstance is likely to cause massive problems again in many German companies in 2024. Cybercriminals rely on companies using a wide variety of cloud infrastructures and solutions and thereby losing track of their access and access authorizations. To protect yourself from a flood of cloud-based user account takeovers...

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Security awareness against phishing attacks
22 January 2024
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The increasing spread of deepfake and AI technologies poses a serious threat, particularly in the area of ​​phishing attacks. These technologies allow attackers to create increasingly realistic and sophisticated deceptions that render traditional detection methods, such as spelling and language errors, obsolete. This significantly exacerbates an already existing problem and requires increased awareness of security issues. The era in which phishing attacks could be identified based on obvious linguistic discrepancies is coming to an end. Phishing is becoming more and more linguistically perfect. Therefore, the need for comprehensive security awareness training is becoming increasingly urgent in order to develop effective countermeasures. Despite…

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Audio deepfakes with generative AI
July 2, 2023
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Audio deepfakes, i.e. voices imitated with computer systems, are constantly evolving. This results in an increase in AI-supported fraud attempts. The so-called "grandchild trick", in which the perpetrator usually pretends to be the victim's child or grandchild and pretends a crisis situation in order to obtain financial support, is already well known. Now, however, artificial intelligence is used that specializes in imitating voices. These AIs sometimes only need 30 minutes of audio material and can use it to create a complete voice profile with which this person can be impersonated. With the use of generative AI, it is possible to...

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Doxing: Special attacks on companies
19 April 2021
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Kaspersky warns of a new cyber threat for companies: With 'corporate doxing', methods of doxing, which have so far been more familiar from the private sector, are used in the context of targeted attacks: whether simple e-mail or deep fake. Kaspersky experts are currently observing a particularly large number of attacks using fake business emails (Business Email Compromise, BEC). At the same time, tricks for faking false identities (identity theft) are becoming more sophisticated. For example, deceptively real voices are already being imitated with the help of artificial intelligence, for example from board members or other high-ranking executives, with the help of which employees are enticed to disclose confidential information or to transfer funds....

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2020: The year of fake news
1 January 2021
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Fake news home office

2020: The year of fake news, corona-related scams and ransomware. This year the coronavirus has got a grip on both the real world and the cyber world. Other topics include home office, deep fakes, phishing attacks, mobile adware and stalkerware. Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy solutions, looks back on some of the most recognizable cyber threats of the year. 2020 was dominated by the coronavirus that hit the whole world, including the cyber world. As Avast has found, cyber criminals took advantage of the pandemic, targeting scams and launching phishing attacks in order to ...

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