Threat actors are increasingly tailoring their attacks to target social media apps and smartphone users, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). As email security technologies improve, scammers are turning to social media apps, text messages, and voice calls to conduct social engineering attacks.

The block Microsoft accounts security setting in Windows is designed to restrict or disable the use of Microsoft accounts on a device or network. This setting can be important for companies looking to have a higher security posture through the use of local accounts only. A Microsoft account is an account created through Microsoft that enables access to a variety of Microsoft services and products, all with a single set of credentials.

Over the last 18 months, you’ve probably heard about Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini. Whether you’re using them as a personal research assistant, an editor, or a data analyst, these tools represent a new frontier of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and arguably will have the most significant impact of any technology in this decade.

Earlier this month, a group of our intrepid pen testers from our Readiness & Resilience team at CISO Global ventured into the heart of the hacking world at DEFCON 32 in Las Vegas. This annual pilgrimage to the mecca of cybersecurity (and more importantly, hacking) is more than just a conference – it’s a hands-on deep dive into the cutting edge of hacking techniques and defensive strategies.

For bad actors, using synthetic voices is easy, cheap, and worryingly effective.

If you answer a spam call, you might start receiving more spam and scam calls, become a victim of SIM card swapping or get your phone number spoofed. Based on Truecaller’s findings, from July 2023 to July 2024, Americans collectively spent approximately 234,000,000 hours answering spam calls. While not every spam call is intended to deceive you like a scam call, receiving unwanted phone calls from persistent telemarketers can quickly become annoying.