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A massive phishing campaign using QR codes targets the energy sector

Security Affairs

A phishing campaign employing QR codes targeted a leading energy company in the US, cybersecurity firm Cofense reported. “Beginning in May 2023, Cofense has observed a large phishing campaign utilizing QR codes targeting the Microsoft credentials of users from a wide array of industries.”

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News alert: Beazley reports on how AI, new tech distract businesses as cyber risk intensifies

The Last Watchdog

Is business becoming dulled to the cyber security threat As cyber fears decrease, the technological risk landscape has fragmented, with executives nearly as concerned about the perceived threat posed by disruptive new technologies, such as AI, as the risk of cybercrime.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. costing an estimated $18.88

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State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling

Ascent Innovations

The utilities and energy industries experienced high indicators of attack activity, suggests that attackers have access to critical infrastructure and are waiting to exploit this access. Email phishing remains the top malware delivery mechanism. State actors tend to zero in on government agencies or utilities and energy targets.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. For now, Kali is primarily known for its roughly 600 open source pentesting tools, allowing pentesters to easily install a full range of offensive security tools.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

And AI security policies will need to extend beyond commercial AI tools to also cover internally-developed GPTs and LLMs” Security teams shy away from formal rules, but sometimes it just has to be done. Yet these dangers can be offset through training to minimize issues.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Cyber Ranges

ForAllSecure

What if you could have this training more often, say, once a month. I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about cyber ranges-- simulations that can both teach and improve the security of your networks. Layer two is going to be the automation of, say the security tools. Yeah, there’s red teams.