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Distraction is their ally. From holiday parties to gift lists to travel plans, the holidays provide bad actors a prime time to do their crime. Cybercrime increases worldwide during the holiday season. Shoppers rush, support staff operate with reduced numbers, and festive distractions create gaps in awareness. With America’s Thanksgiving approaching, warnings about holiday scams … Read more
Imagine the early days of property and casualty insurance. An underwriter might have refused to insure a factory stacked with matches. Yet that same insurer might have escorted the owner to a sprinkler installer to reduce the fire threat and make the risk insurable. That may be a simple, imagined analogy. But cyber insurers now … Read more
Rising Deepfake Incidents Test Business and Political Defenses A finance worker wires millions after a video call with a fake CFO. The clone of a CEO’s voice issues an urgent payment order. A fabricated leader appears in a video, insulting allies. These recent deepfake incidents show a clear pattern. Attackers now blend social engineering, AI, … Read more
Major UK Firms Face Tidal Wave of Exposed Logins A new Socura report warns that UK blue chips sit on a powder keg of stolen credentials. Researchers found over 460,000 instances of leaked employee logins tied to FTSE 100 corporate email addresses. That number roughly matches the population of Bristol, UK, or Fresno, CA, in … Read more
Think of these cybersecurity predictions like a city planner’s warning about a neighborhood with too many spare keys, too many new tools for thieves, and too many people leaving their windows open. Teenagers with lockpicks roam the alleys. Hackers use AI the way a magician uses sleight of hand. Some break in pretending to be … Read more