Distributed Workforce

Phishing emails generated with artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more likely to fool recipients, achieving 54% click-through rates compared to 12% for conventional phishing attempts, and AI could make phishing scams up to 50 times more profitable, according to The Register.

Teams must tightly control IE mode and educate the staff about social engineering to safeguard devices.

Apple has increased financial rewards for zero-click remote code execution vulnerabilities by twofold to $2 million as part of an updated bug bounty program, Security Affairs reports.

The campaign leveraged more than 630 HTML files to lure victims to fake login pages.

The attacks came from the same subnet, indicating that it was coordinate, not random scanning.

US universities subjected to 'payroll pirate' intrusions Twenty-five universities across the U.S. have had their employees targeted by the Storm-2657 threat operation with phishing emails looking to divert salary payments as part of a payroll piracy campaign that commenced in March, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

A deeper analysis found that all the firewall configurations were compromised, not just 5% of users as first reported.