AI crawlers -- what are they and why are they a problem? [Q&A]
Organizations have grappled with business threats posed by various automated bots and crawlers over the years. The latest flavor to take the spotlight is AI crawlers which source proprietary content to feed the AIs they serve.
We spoke to Eyal Benishti, CEO of IRONSCALES, to discuss AI crawlers and why it's important for security teams to establish boundaries for their use.
Deepfakes pose growing fraud risk to contact centers
Deepfake attacks, including sophisticated synthetic voice clones, are rising, posing an estimated $5 billion fraud risk to US contact centers, according to the latest Pindrop Voice Intelligence and Security Report.
Contact center fraud has surged by 60 percent in the last two years, reaching the highest levels since 2019. By the end of this year, one in every 730 calls to a contact center is expected to be fraudulent.
Threats to mobile devices triple over the last year
Almost three times as many phishing, malicious, deny-listed, and offensive links have been delivered to mobile devices than a year ago, according to a new report from Lookout.
The Lookout Mobile Threat Landscape Report is based on data derived from the Lookout Security Cloud that analyzes data from more than 220 million devices, 325 million apps and billions of web items.
IT and security data is siloed in most organizations
Although the goals and challenges of IT and security professionals overlap, 72 percent of respondents to a new survey report that security data and IT data are siloed in their organization, contributing to elevated security risk.
The survey of over 7,000 executive leaders, IT and cybersecurity professionals and office workers, from Ivanti finds 63 percent report that siloed data slows down security response times.
Malicious emails increase over 300 percent
The last six months has seen a 341 percent increase in malicious emails, including an alarming spike in phishing, BEC, and other message-based attacks fueled by the continued growth of generative AI.
The latest State of Phishing Report from SlashNext finds that since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a 4,151 percent increase in malicious emails sent.
Comms providers believe AI will improve operational efficiency
More than half of telecom and IT engineers responding to a new survey believe the use of AI will improve network operational efficiency by 40 percent or more.
In addition the study from Ciena, with research by Censuswide, shows an overwhelming 85 percent of respondents express confidence in communication service providers' (CSPs) ability to monetize AI traffic across networks.
Bad tech costs workers up to four hours a week
New research from Scalable Software finds that, on average, employees lose nearly four hours a week (3.78) because of digital employee experience (DEX) failings.
The survey of 400 US and UK IT decision makers also shows that 90 percent of respondents in both the US and UK say their organization suffers from 'productivity paranoia' over hybrid working. This means they’re unable to accurately assess productivity or identify where blockers occur.
Updated Edge for Business adds new security, productivity and AI features
Microsoft has announced a series of updates to Edge for Business aimed at making the browser a more attractive proposition for enterprises.
Launched at Build yesterday, new features include screenshot prevention in order to block data exfiltration, this also applies to Copilot prompts and responses. There's also improved leak protection for sensitive documents.
How 'internet fracturing' is challenging enterprise growth [Q&A]
We tend to think of the internet as being something that's the same all over the world, but with nations like China, India and Russia increasingly closing off the wider web to their citizens, is the global nature of the internet under threat?
We spoke to Ruoting Sun, VP of Product at Secureframe about the phenomenon of 'internet fracturing' and what it means for businesses.
AI adoption poses risks to corporate data
The amount of corporate data workers put into AI tools increased 485 percent from March 2023 to March 2024, and is increasing exponentially. The trend is highest among tech workers with 23.6 percent putting corporate data into an AI tool.
A new report from Cyberhaven looks at AI adoption trends and their link to heightened risk. A worrying finding is that 73.8 percent of ChatGPT usage at work is through non-corporate accounts, that unlike enterprise versions incorporate whatever you share in public models.
77 percent of organizations suffer cyberattacks due to identity issues
According to a new survey, 77 percent of organizations have suffered from instances of cyberattacks or data breaches in the past 12 months due to improper access or over-privileged users.
The study from ConductorOne, based on a survey of 523 US-based IT security leaders at companies with 250 to 10,000 employees, also finds 41 percent of respondents say there had been multiple instances of cyberattacks or data breaches due to the same improper access issues.
Only 60 percent of brands can protect their customers from digital impersonation
More than half of respondents (53 percent) to a new survey say their existing cybersecurity solutions do not effectively address website impersonation attacks, and 41 percent say their existing solutions only partially protect them and their customers.
The study from Memcyco, based on research from Global Surveyz, finds just six percent of brands claim to have a solution that effectively addresses these attacks despite 87 percent of companies recognizing website impersonation as a major issue and 69 percent admitting to having had these attacks carried out against their own website.
Chatbots can be tricked into revealing company secrets
A new Dark Side of GenAI report from Immersive Labs looks at 'prompt injection' attacks, in which individuals input specific instructions to trick chatbots into revealing sensitive information, potentially exposing organizations to data leaks.
Using data gathered from a public prompt injection challenge the report finds a worrying 88 percent of participants successfully tricked the GenAI bot into giving away sensitive information in at least one level of an increasingly difficult challenge.
Zero-day vulnerabilities see increased targeting by cybercriminals
Last year saw more mass compromise events arising from zero-day vulnerabilities (53 percent) than from older vulnerabilities for the first time since 2021.
The latest Attack Intelligence Report from Rapid7 also shows mass compromise events stemming from exploitation of network edge devices have almost doubled since the start of 2023, with 36 percent of widely exploited vulnerabilities occurring in network perimeter technologies. More than 60 percent of the vulnerabilities Rapid7 analyzed in network and security appliances in 2023 were exploited as zero-days.
UK financial sector under constant cyberattack
The financial sector in the UK is under constant attack and that it is grappling to keep pace with ever-evolving cyber threats, according to a new report from security awareness training company KnowBe4.
The frequency of ransomware attacks on the financial sector in the UK doubled in 2023, showcasing an alarming escalation. Phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) remain the top threats to organizations including financial institutions.
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Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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