Kevin Townsend
Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek
Freelance author and journalist. Senior Contributor @SecurityWeek. LinkedIn: https://t.co/vsn56eF7sp
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
If deepfakes were a disease, this would be a pandemic. Artificial Intelligence (AI) now generates deepfake voice at a scale and quality that has bridged the uncanny valley. Fraud is increasingly being fueled by voice deepfakes. An analysis by Pindrop (using a ‘liveness detection tool’) examined 130 million calls in Q4 2024 and found an increase of 173% in the use of synthetic voice compared to Q1.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Security researchers have discovered five zero-day vulnerabilities and a further 15 easy misconfigurations in Salesforce Industry Cloud, potentially affecting tens of thousands of organizations. Salesforce Industry Cloud (aka Salesforce Industries) comprises a collection of industry-specific tools able to easily build custom CRM extension solutions for different industry sectors – such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, communications, and government public sector organizations.
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3 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
ClickFix is not a malware, but a very successful social engineering technique. It primarily relies on MFA verification fatigue and fake CAPTCHA pages to silently install malware. Researchers have discovered and analyzed a ClickFix attack that uses a fake Cloudflare ‘humanness’ check. The Cloudflare check is called Turnstile and has replaced the earlier Cloudflare CAPTCHA process in keeping with an industry-wide migration toward frictionless security.
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3 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
The UK’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) details a plan to integrate its military defensive and offensive capabilities through increased use of cyber, AI, and digital warfighting. Like the US, the UK is known, but not publicly proven, to engage in offensive cyber operations, even against allies. Among Snowden’s leaks was information about Operation Socialist, which ran from 2010 to 2013. GCHQ successfully used a Quantum Insert attack against Belgacom (Belgium’s largest telecoms provider).
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3 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Scams are no longer annoyances, tricking individuals but not damaging the economy. They have become big business, with Arkose Labs suggesting they could cost the global economy $1.03 trillion in 2024. The reason for this growth is complex but not complicated. Crime pays consistently more than legitimate work, and scamming is easy with the rise of crime-as-a-service (CaaS).
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Satellites + quantum + blockchain: the synergy of new technologies will lead us toward more secure communications and more secure computing. https://t.co/l0fkHekTjE
AI-powered spear phishing now outperforms elite human-generated spear phishing, with the real inflection point occurring in early 2025. If we add AI’s ability to operate at vastly improved speed and scale, the outlook is daunting. https://t.co/88jxJIjrT3