Fraud

North Koreans use real-time deepfake tech to hide identities in job interviews

2025-04-23 Per Henrikson

IBM X-Force reports evolving threat landscape amid shifting tactics, marking rise in stealth and identity exploits

2025-04-21 Per Henrikson

Palo Alto's Unit 42 Demonstrates the Alarming Ease of Synthetic Identity Creation

2025-04-21 Per Henrikson

Sensitive PII of millions leaked in historic Moroccan data breach

2025-04-10 Per Henrikson

The data breach is a wake-up call for Morocco’s public and private sectors as the North African country undergoes rapid digitization.

AI technologies such as ChatGPT can generate fake India Aadhaar cards

2025-04-05 Per Henrikson

As per reports, AI can create photorealistic fake identification documents, such as Aadhaar and PAN cards. This has raised security concerns among taxpayers and citizens. India fights these attempts by using new secure QR codes containing encrypted data that can only be deciphered by authorised scanners.

Breach at FacePass, Brazilian facial recognition and identification app, exposed over 1.6 million files

2025-03-30 Per Henrikson

Over 1.6 million files containing sensitive user data and internal system credentials were left unsecured in a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket.

How attackers outsmart MFA in 2025

2025-03-24 Per Henrikson

Exposing MFA’s weaknesses in an era of advanced threats.

Gartner warns of AI-driven account takeover threats by 2027

2025-03-24 Per Henrikson

Gartner has projected a significant shift in the cybersecurity landscape by 2027, with AI agents expected to halve the time required to exploit account exposures. The technology research and consulting firm highlights account takeover (ATO) as a persistent threat, primarily due to weak authentication credentials, such as passwords.

Tax scams using Deepfake phishing become prevalent in the US

2025-03-23 Ian Fleming

Tax season is almost here and this year there have been warnings about new AI-powered scams in addition to phishing and impersonation attacks.

Trend Micro Predicts Rise of Deepfake-Powered Malicious Digital Twins - Times of Oman

2025-03-20 Per Henrikson

Over 188 million threats were blocked in the region during H1 2024 by Trend Micro, while anticipating a surge in AI-powered attacks and ransomware tactics in 2025.

Scammers using deepfake voice cloning to trick people into sending money

2025-03-20 Ian Fleming

Phone scammers are increasingly using voice cloning technology to impersonate loved ones and trick individuals into handing over money, and experts recommend establishing a secret code word, checking before acting, creating an emergency contact list, and being cautious about social media to reduce the risk of falling prey to these scams.

Romance bots, deepfake digital twins, malvertising seen as rising cybersecurity concerns

2025-03-17 Per Henrikson

Trend Micro's 2025 predictions report also warns of the potential for malicious “digital twins” where breached or leaked personal information is used to train an AI model to mimic the knowledge, personality, and writing style of a victim or employee.