Spear Phishing at Scale: AI-Fueled Social Engineering Attacks
Spear phishing at scale: A new era of AI fueled attacks where social engineering, social media, AI tools, and micro-targeting converge.
The threat landscape continues to evolve—individual and state-backed hackers and agencies become increasingly emboldened to compromise websites and servers, steal CPU cycles for cryptocurrency mining, embark on social engineering efforts to find backdoors, and sway public opinion through fake news and other measures. zvelo provides the most advanced URL/IP categorization database for web filtering, whitelists and blacklists, and residential and business protections against bad actors and malicious online behavior. Explore zvelo’s Cybersecurity and threat intelligence data feeds for industry leading malicious and phishing exploit detection and the most advanced cyber threat intelligence available to OEMs and device manufacturers.
Social Engineering Attack Examples
This post shares a few highly effective social engineering examples using micro-targeting techniques based on LinkedIn profile attributes.
Hacker Techniques: Profiling Social Engineering Attack Targets
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Social Engineering Attack Prevention Series
Social engineering prevention basics: Learn what it is, the red flags of an attack, and how your personal digital habits create organizational risks.
Social Engineering
Social engineering attacks are a type of cybercrime that human weakness by using psychological manipulation to trick individuals.
Premium Threat Intel: A Vital Investment in Cybercrime Prevention
A curated threat intelligence approach, in which aging data is managed based on current attack status, is crucial to preventing cybercrime.
PayPal Payment Request Scam
Threat Alert: Active PayPal payment request scam uses social engineering to exploit users and evade detection without the use of a link.
Qakbot: Fast Moving Attacks and Ransomware Collaborations
The latest string of attacks using Qakbot malware are breaching networks and successfully deploying ransomware in less than half a day.
zveloCTI Business Justification Case Study
zvelo’s threat intelligence delivers significant cost savings and powerful improvements to the Client’s threat detection capabilities.
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AiTM Phishing Attacks: Keeping Up with Attacker TTPs
Attackers are turning up the heat with advanced TTPs like Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing attacks to steal session cookies and bypass MFA security.