CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Microsoft in February launched an investigation of its Copilot AI chatbot after reports on social media of it taunting users who suggested they were considering suicide. One glitch blocked parents without Social Security numbers from filling out the form. The PCs shipped with the Backdoor.Bladabindi malware, as well as RedLine Stealer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2025

A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These days, digital spoofing, phishing attacks, and social engineering attempts are more convincing than ever due to bad actors refining their techniques and developing more sophisticated threats with AI. AI can also personalize training for employees more vulnerable to social engineering attacks.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2017

Social engineering is the strongest method of attack against the enterprise’s weakest vulnerability, its people. In 2015, social engineering became the No. These successful social engineering methods often use phishing and malware. Criminal hackers recognize this fact.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Cybercriminals began to use social engineering techniques to trick people into giving up their personal information, and they developed new malware that could evade traditional security measures. As we entered the 2000s, cyberattacks became more sophisticated and targeted.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2024

En este sentido trabajan en torno a seis ámbitos relacionados con el turismo, salud, movilidad, seguridad, inclusión social e integración de las personas mayores. Durante este periodo, se han detectado 6 familias de malware y se han realizado 6 notificaciones a las personas afectadas”.

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Tech Republic

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Trends in cybersecurity across 2024 showed less malware and phishing, though more social engineering. CrowdStrike offers tips on securing your business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Attackers now have access to extensive identity data from multiple sourcesincluding data breaches, infostealer malware infections, phishing campaigns, and combolistsposing a challenge for organizations whose security measures have not yet adapted to address the full scope of interconnected identity exposures holistically.

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Network World

JULY 10, 2016

Omni Hotels & Resorts has reported that point-of-sale systems at some of its properties were hit by malware targeting payment card information. The malware was designed to collect certain payment card information, including cardholder name, credit/debit card number, security code and expiration date,” Omni said. “The

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sikorski discusses where attackers benefit from AI and how it will supercharge social engineering attacks. As Sikorski aptly puts it, “Lowering the bar for social engineering attacks means attackers are less likely to be caught due to language inconsistencies.”

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identity-based and social engineering attacks still take center stage, according to the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report.

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Network World

APRIL 9, 2017

SlashNext makes Active Cyber Defense System, a service with a cloud-based learning component that can detect data exfiltration, malware, exploits and social engineering attacks, says the company’s founder and CEO Atif Mushtaq. SlashNext CEO Atif Mushtaq: "The system has a low false positive rate."

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. The malware has been active since 2023, specifically targeting victims in Vietnam and Thailand.

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully. Stu Sjouwerman.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Be mindful of the dangers of poisoned gifts (malware), and stay vigilant against these sweet but dangerous schemes. Behind the Velvet Ropes: Understanding Access Control and Privilege Escalation Cinderella is initially barred from attending the royal ball but eventually gains accessin the end altering her social status.

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Tech Republic Big Data

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Recruiters and anyone else involved in hiring processes should be knowledgeable about this social engineering attack threat. Get the details.

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Forrester IT

MAY 18, 2016

New social media scams and marketing #fails are common fodder for water cooler banter today - even a recent episode of HBO's Veep ran a joke where the President blames a Chinese cyberattack for sending an ill-advised tweet. But social media cybersecurity issues are far from a laughing matter, and it's time we all take notice.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The game was designed to contain malware that could steal users’ browser cookies and was available for at least a week before Valve removed it from its storefront and alerted users about potential risks to their PCs. Lazzzy.gen, a type of malware aimed at stealing browser cookies.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

The FBI has determined that the intrusion into SPE’s network consisted of the deployment of destructive malware and the theft of proprietary information as well as employees’ personally identifiable information and confidential communications. Such acts of intimidation fall outside the bounds of acceptable state behavior.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

Malware, phishing, and ransomware are fast-growing threats given new potency and effectiveness with AI – for example, improving phishing attacks, creating convincing fake identities or impersonating real ones.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Deploy email authentication standards on enterprise email servers to check and verify inbound emails.

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TechSpot

MAY 4, 2023

Facebook parent Meta published its latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns this week. Read Entire Article

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Silicon Valley security provider AppSOC discovered significant vulnerabilities, including the ability to jailbreak the AI and generate malware. You could in some cases, generate actual malware which is a big red flag,” he stated. .” “It failed a bunch of benchmarks where you could jailbreak it.

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TechSpot

APRIL 27, 2023

Cryptbot is a well-known security threat designed to identify and steal sensitive information from victims' computers, including passwords and authentication credentials, social media account logins, cryptocurrency wallets, and much more. Read Entire Article

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Flexible-Ferret malware variant evades Apple’s XProtect measures This detection-resistant variant was identified by researchers at SentinelOne, who noted its ability to bypass the recent XProtect signature update intended to block Ferret infections.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

Text messages can be intercepted via malware such as SMS trojan , SIM swapping (an account breaching technique in which fraudsters pay wireless carrier employees to swap a customer’s SIM for one controlled by the threat actor), and OTP interception bots , which can access customers’ one-time-passwords.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” It sounds simple, but it could be a hedge against similar social engineering and phishing hacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2023

Google has obtained a temporary court order to disrupt the distribution of CryptBot, a Windows-based information-stealing malware that has infected more than 670,000 computers in 2022. The harvested data is then sold to other attackers for use in data breach campaigns.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Government-backed hackers based in North Korea are targeting individual security researchers through a number of means including a “novel social engineering method,” Google’s Threat Analysis Group is reporting. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Even though everyone within the IT and security industries sees the need for zero trust to combat today’s malware and ransomware threats, not everybody has the resources or the business backing to do it full-scale. VIPs and execs especially won’t like this, but they must consider themselves targets of attacks and abide by this policy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

The biggest risk with VPNs is that malware can get into a user’s system, effortlessly ride the VPN and potentially infect the entire enterprise. VPNs typically don’t scan for viruses or other malware. Some may not be patched or updated, while others may use the vendor’s default password, and lack malware detection.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 21, 2023

According to a recent blog post : "Operation DreamJob is the name for a series of campaigns where the group uses social engineering techniques to compromise its targets, with fake job offers as the lure. In these cases, the attacker knows who to target for access and can tailor messaging and social engineering efforts to that specific victim.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2023

A new study from Uptycs has uncovered an increase in the distribution of information stealing malware. Newly discovered stealer families include modules that specifically steal logs from MFA applications, like the Rhadamanthys malware. Examining the dark web reveals that infostealer malware has become increasingly widespread.

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