1265% Phishing Email Increase Since ChatGPT Launch
SlashNext’s “State of Phishing Report for 2023” report stated the 1265% phishing increase in malicious phishing emails since Q4 2022, correlating to ChatGPT’s launch.
It was also reported that 31,000 phishing emails were sent on a daily basis in the past year, 68% of them being text-based Business Email Compromise (BEC).
SolarWinds and its CISO Charged by SEC
SolarWinds and its CISO, Timothy Brown, have been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failure to disclose cyber-risks, leading to the infamous 2020 attack on SolarWinds.
Evidence from 2018 shows a “not very secure” SolarWinds cyberinfrastructure, specifically for remote access capabilities. 2018 and 2019 presentations also found SolarWinds CISO Brown to admit the company “far from being a security-minded company.”
Canadian Government Employees Banned to Use Kaspersky and WeChat Apps
The Canadian Government earlier this week announced banning several apps, namely Kaspersky, Tencent, and WeChat, for government use due to ‘privacy and security’ concerns.
In a statement from the Canadian Government, this stemmed from the Government taking “a risk-based approach to cybersecurity,” finding that the banned apps provide considerable access to the device’s contents.
