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Scammers posing as workers at big-name brands stole more than $660 million in 2023

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Scammers duping people by posing as workers at big-name brands like Best Buy’s Geek Squad, Amazon and PayPal stole more than $660 million through business-impersonation scams in 2023, according to a report released by the Federal Trade Commission.  Such scams have become more prevalent since the pandemic. For example, in the first three months of […]

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Ascension Ransomware Event Put Patients’ Lives in Danger

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Ascension, the fifth largest health system in the US, is recovering from a May ransomware incident that forced staff to make handwritten treatment orders after losing access to critical Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software.  In news coverage of the crippling Ascension ransomware event, some staff called the situation “dangerous” for patients as hospitals were forced

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AI-Focused Financial Crime a Growing Concern Banks Must Monitor

AI-Focused Financial Crime a Growing Concern Banks Must Monitor

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Criminals are more skilled at using AI to commit financial crimes than banks are at using AI to stop them, according to a BioCatch survey. BioCatch surveyed fraud-management, anti-money laundering, and risk and compliance officials from 11 countries. Nearly 70% reported an increase in financial crime activity over the past year and about half of

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Kaiser Private Data Breach of 13 Million Patients Latest in Health-Related Cybersecurity Risk Trend

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The latest healthcare cybersecurity risk impacting more than 13 million former and current patients of California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is part of the record-breaking trend that has been in motion.  The company has notified patients that it unknowingly shared their information with third-party advertisers, including Google, Microsoft and X (formerly Twitter.) Kaiser Foundation Health

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ChatGPT Plugins Pose Security Risks

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ChatGPT plugins pose security risks that could provide loopholes for threat actors to seize control of an organization’s account on third-party platforms and access Personal Identifiable Information (PII). ChatGPT plugins enable users to access up-to-date information (rather than the relatively old data the chatbot was trained on), as well as to integrate ChatGPT with third-party

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2024 shaping up to be worse for cybersecurity teams than 2023

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The cyber threat landscape in 2024 is shaping up to be worse for cybersecurity teams than 2023. Threat intelligence firm Flashpoint has logged dramatic increases in all major threat indicators January through February 2024. According to Flashpoint’s data there were 6,077 recorded data breaches in 2023, with attackers accessing more than 17 billion personal records

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AT&T Confirms Personal Information from Millions of Customers Leaked on Dark Web

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AT&T confirms that personal information from millions of customers was leaked on a dark-web forum in mid-March.  In a statement released March 30 AT&T said: “AT&T has launched a robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts. Based on our preliminary analysis, the data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately

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AI Security to Dominate Technology News of 2024

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AI will continue to dominate technology news for 2024 with industry leaders from the enterprise security segment naming AI security as a top concern, according to a recent study by the Security Industry Association (SIA). AI security encompasses cybersecurity practices for the protection of data, IP, and corporate integrity as AI is adopted by businesses

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Phishing Trends for 2024

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A recent report from Swiss technology company Acronis revealed that phishing remains the most popular tactic for stealing credentials, making up 73 percent of all cyberattacks. The phishing trends for 2024 include smishing and deepfakes, as the race in developing AI technology continues to be a critical one between cybercriminals and cybersecurity experts.. The following

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