Fraud

CNN: Watch cybersecurity expert fool a deepfake detector

2025-05-15 Ian Fleming

KnowBe4 Predicts Agentic AI Ransomware is ‘imminent on International Anti-Ransomware Day’

2025-05-12 Per Henrikson

Hackers Allegedly Breach TikTok, Exposing Over 900,000 Usernames & Passwords

2025-04-25 Per Henrikson

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

2025-04-23 Per Henrikson

North Korean IT workers have begun using real-time deepfake technology to conceal their true identities during job interviews, according to a U.S. cybersecurity firm, highlighting the increasing sophistication of their remote work schemes to raise money for the sanctioned regime.

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

2025-04-21 Per Henrikson

“Cybercriminals are most often breaking in without breaking anything – capitalizing on identity gaps overflowing from complex hybrid cloud environments that offer attackers multiple access points.”

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

2025-04-21 Per Henrikson

North Korean IT workers are reportedly using real-time deepfakes to secure remote work, raising serious security concerns. We explore the implications. North Korean IT workers are reportedly using real-time deepfakes to secure remote work, raising serious security concerns. We explore the implications.

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.