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"Cyber crime group ShinyHunters has received global attention after Google
urged 2.5 billion users to tighten their security following a data breach via
Salesforce, a customer management platform.
Unlike data breaches where hackers directly break into databases holding
valuable information, ShinyHunters – and several other groups – have recently
targeted major companies through voice-based social engineering (also known as
“vishing”, short for voice phishing).
Social engineering is when a person is tricked or manipulated into providing
information or performing actions that they wouldn’t normally do.
In this case, to get access to protected systems, a criminal would pose as a
member of the target company’s IT helpdesk and convince an employee to share
passwords and/or multi-factor authentication codes. Although vishing is not a
new tactic, the use of deepfakes and generative artificial intelligence to
clone voices is making this type of social engineering harder to detect.
Just this year, companies such as Qantas, Pandora, Adidas, Chanel, Tiffany &
Co. and Cisco have all been targeted using similar tactics, with millions of
users affected."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
