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Cybersecurity: The vulnerable employee needs support
Cybersecurity: The employee vulnerability needs support - AI MS

In the changing threat landscape, human behavior plays an important role in cybersecurity - on the one hand, positively as a reinforcement in defense, on the other hand, negatively as a door opener for cybercriminals. A difficult balancing act. But there are effective solutions to better support employees. Security technologies are constantly evolving - and with them the tactics of cybercriminals who exploit vulnerabilities in machines and people to gain unauthorized access to systems. In the first half of 2023, the Sophos Cybersecurity Report found that compromised credentials were the primary cause of 50 percent...

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Is ChatGPT changing the future of IT security?
Is ChatGPT changing the future of IT security?

Open AI's ChatGPT software is making waves. With the help of AI, the chatbot answers a wide variety of questions very eloquently. So it should come as no surprise that, as is always the case with new technologies, criminals are already thinking about how to use these capabilities for their own ends. A joint study by Europol, Unicri and Trend Micro investigated this. According to these results, even better generated social engineering tools such as phishing or BEC could be considered for the Open AI software. Currently, other security researchers have also examined fraudulent emails generated with the currently hyped AI, and…

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Donation scammers: helping Ukraine as a scam
Bitdefender_News

Ukraine scammers are expanding their campaign repertoire. Bitdefender's Antispam Lab monitors new scam mail campaigns related to the Ukraine war. Donation fraud with fake emails from aid organizations, welfare organizations, fake websites, fraudulent crowdfunding. Since the outbreak of the war, Bitdefender Anti Spam Lab's filters have been finding e-mails that seek to exploit the willingness of the general public to help. And the trend is rising: spam mails on the back of the tragedy are becoming more, more sophisticated and cynically better and better tailored to the target group, as the following examples show. Calls for crypto donations In a campaign, the authors call for donations to crypto wallets. The first two…

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Small and medium-sized businesses watch out: scammers pretend to be Microsoft support 
Eset_News

Old scam, new tricks: Fraudsters pretend to be Microsoft employees on the phone. Alleged support calls are on the rise again and are finding more and more victims - especially in the SME sector. Currently, supposed employees of Microsoft's technical support are increasingly calling unsuspecting Internet users. They are informed that their computer has been infected with a virus or that there is a serious technical problem. The alleged support employee wants to help, but in truth wants to steal access data or steal money. In his current article on WeLiveSecurity.de, ESET security expert Thomas Uhlemann explains how those affected react immediately ...

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Scams threaten over 60 percent of users
Kaspersky_news

Attempted fraud: Two thirds of users in Germany will be affected in 2020. Cyber ​​criminals use publicly available information to appear legitimate. 87 percent of scam attempts are made via email. Victims lose an average of 46,65 euros. Fraud attempts (scams) via e-mail, social media or telephone are still current, as a Kaspersky survey now shows. Almost two thirds (64 percent) of those surveyed in Germany experienced an attempt at scam this year - and the fraudsters are targeting their victims' data and money as always. Users often do it to cybercriminals with freely accessible information ...

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