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AI's Offensive & Defensive Impacts

Palo Alto Networks

The Phishing Threat Becomes Much Stronger In the near-term of the next 6-12 months, Sikorski believes the top way AI will be leveraged offensively is for supercharging social engineering attacks, like phishing and business email compromise (BEC). Ready for the next steps to adopt GenAI securely and confidently?

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Nightmare Email Attacks (and Tips for Blocking Them)

Palo Alto Networks

This type of attack is known as a business email compromise, or BEC. Each year, Unit 42 security consultants spend thousands of hours on BEC investigations , combing through logs to identify unauthorized activity, determine how unauthorized access occurred and find security gaps that need to be addressed. BEC: “It Can’t Happen to Me”.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

Tenable

To get all the details, read the blog “ Are You Ready for the Next Log4Shell? To learn more about assessing the security of a software product: “ How to Assess a Vendor's Data Security ” (Electronic Frontier Foundation). “ For more information about FFT and BEC: “ How can we help you? SMB Software Buying Report.”.

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3 Reasons Cyberattacks Target Financial Services and How to Fight Back

Palo Alto Networks

Financial services are affected by a full span of threat types, including business email compromise (BEC) and insider threats. According to the FBI, BEC is “a sophisticated scam that targets both businesses and individuals who perform legitimate transfer-of-funds requests.”

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Say How AI Is Changing Their Work, While the FBI Reports Ransomware Hit Critical Infrastructure Hard in 2023

Tenable

Business email compromise (BEC) ranked second with $2.9 That’s according to ISC2’s survey “AI in Cyber 2024: Is the Cybersecurity Profession Ready?”, Source: “AI in Cyber 2024: Is the Cybersecurity Profession Ready?” Source: “AI in Cyber 2024: Is the Cybersecurity Profession Ready?” billion in losses.

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Reactive to Resilient: The Roadmap to Cyber Readiness and Beyond

Palo Alto Networks

Too often, I find that organizations believe they are “cyber ready” without considering “cyber resilience.” Cyber Resilience: More Than Being Ready. In order to identify current-state cyber resilience, organizations should conduct an assessment against a dedicated cybersecurity resilience framework.