KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #15 | April 11th, 2023 [The New Face of Fraud] FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams The Federal Trade Commission is alerting consumers about a next-level, more sophisticated family emergency scam that uses AI which imitates the voice of a "family member in distress." How could it be a scam?

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people." And ChatGPT now supports plug-ins that let the chatbot tap new sources of information, including the web and third-party sites like Expedia and Instacart. Things could get much worse Wired wrote: "The hacking of ChatGPT is just getting started.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

A specific example of their actions involved using a fake job offer to trick a startup into losing over $600 million. The attacker has made a lot of effort to create all these fake personas, only to deliver very obvious malware," the researchers write. US officials have confirmed this news.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

The most money you can scam from a single attack? The concern, which is already starting to play out, is that URLs that look like file names will open up even more possibilities for digital scams like phishing that trick web users into clicking on malicious links that are masquerading as something legitimate." Yup – shoe store.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

We have observed an increase in the registration of fake phishing domains in the U.S. (88%), Trezor Suite has recently endured a security breach, assume all your assets are vulnerable," the fake message reads, inviting users to follow a phishing link to 'secure' their Trezor device.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

PS: [BUDGET AMMO] The Implications of ChatGPT on Cybercrime. Informed and properly skeptical personnel are far less likely to fall for the scam, and are far more likely to offer the scammers a target too tough to crack. ." - T.E., Check #11: [link] Let's stay safe out there.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

Will generative AI tools like ChatGPT make things crazier by lowering the barrier to entry? Delilah Schwartz, from Cybersixgill, brings her extensive background with online extremists to The Hacker Mind to talk about how she’s seeing a lot of chatter in the Dark Web about generative AI being used online for scams. Here's the BBC.

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