Topic: social engineering attacks
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Stolen Data Fuels a Booming Cybercrime Black Market
The underground cybercrime economy is booming, with stolen personal data treated as a high-value commodity, traded in sophisticated operations involving banking details, medical records, and more. Cybercriminals use AI-enhanced tactics like phishing, deepfakes, and multilingual chatbots to exploi...
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Trump's Chief of Staff Deepfaked in Phishing Scam
Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn't cover in depth ourselves. Despite Wiles’ reported claim of having her device hacked, it remains unconfirmed whether this was actually how attackers identified Wiles’ associates. It would also be possible to assemble such a target list from a combination of publicly available information and data sold by gray-market brokers. If so, that would make the incident one of the most significant cases yet of so-called deepfake software being ...
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