Tag: phishing
AI revolutionizes sextortion scams
Artificial intelligence (AI) services are enabling unscrupulous online blackmailers to create fake but highly realistic sexually explicit photographs and videos of innocent victims. The blackmailer usually emails the target individual to show them pornographic images of themselves, threatening to send the pictures to the victim’s contacts – a process known as “sextortion.” A variation is to claim to have compromising images of the victim recorded via the webcam on their smartphone.
“Jailbreaking” – cybercrime’s latest buzzword
When cybercriminals speak about “jailbreaking,” they are not discussing springing someone from prison. It refers instead to circumventing safety restrictions on AI-driven chatbots to effectively weaponize AI for criminal purposes.
DarkGate again threatens online computer systems – September 15th
A new phishing attack campaign using DarkGate Loader malware has been identified, with Microsoft Teams users being urged to exercise caution. This malware is specifically a 'loader malware' meaning that it is able to download and execute other malware programs on the infected device. The additional malware then downloads in the infected device's memory structure, making it hard to detect since it isn't in the device's file system.
Healthcare sector attacks on the rise
The healthcare sector is coming under increasingly severe pressure from cyber-attacks. On the heels of news earlier last week that the infamous Lazarus Group is launching a new campaign targeting internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare facilities in the US and Europe comes news of a major attack by the Rhysida ransomware group on Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings.
Threat actors’ preferred names? Microsoft, Meta, and Google
Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are some of the world's most respected brands, but they're also the most impersonated. With 300,000 successful phishing attacks recorded last year in the US alone and 71% of organizations experiencing an attempted or actual business email compromise the issue is only getting worse.
Interpol-Afriapol success and 200,000 phishing victims – August 18th
Discord.io data leak Discord.io exposes the personal data of more than 760,000