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Phishing Attacks
• Phishing
•
Phishing February
schemes
2019 have
- Edition be-
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come much more sophisticat-
ed, powered by Artificial In-
telligence (AI) technologies
that can learn corporate lingo
and collect voice snippets.
snippets .
• Phishing is a cyber attack
• Phishing
that uses fake email mes-
sages or malicious web-
sites to steal sensitive in-
formation like passwords,
• The AI software then imper-
• The
or credit card numbers.
sonates an employee by
• Phishing
•
Phishing attacks have been using real voice snippets
to create authentic-sound-
around for a long time.
ing phone phishing scams.
• People
•
People are becoming more
aware of the dangers of • Periodic
• Periodic training of employ-
phishing emails and suspi- ees and security teams can
cious links that can
c an install ensure that they are aware
malware..
malware
of all new phishing tricks and
• However,
•
However, hackers keep cre- are therefore ready to con-
them . (See Video 1.)
ating more sophisticated front them.
attacks , which are more diffi-
attacks,
2. Ransomware Attacks
cult to recognize.
• Ransomware blocks access
• FF or example, the attackers of • Ransomware
•
2020 use machine learning to files or systems and de-
to quickly create and distrib- mands a ransom payment
from users to regain access.
ute fake messages.
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