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Scams Now Using AI to Terrify Victims

Meanwhile …
Have you noticed the new Google AI search? It’s new, exciting and … dangerous as people are finding that it’s promoting malicious websites. For now, let’s stick to the good old traditional organic search.

📰 Headline Highlights 📰

• Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot - US

• New Gmail & M365 Warning As 2FA Security Bypass Hack Confirmed

• The Darkside Of The Moon - old internet-connected devices are being compromised by threat actors

• Large-Scale StrelaStealer Campaign in Early 2024

• Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users

• Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams

Meanwhile, Apple devices running the iOS and macOS operating systems: New security patches are available to close a vulnerability.

BONUS CONTENTS + HOUSEKEEPING

📌 Reminder of the Week

Two Words: Check Fraud

It still exists. And yes, your account number and routing number appear on your check. Here are some tips.

• Use mailboxes that are secure. If you need to send any checks by mail, use the mailbox inside of a USPS facility rather than at a curbside USPS mailbox or your residential outgoing mail. 

• Keep your bank account information safe. Do not allow websites to save your routing/transit and account number information. 

Information in this section is from an email newsletter sent by San Diego County Credit Union.

📱TEC TIP ✍️

Think before you part with your money.

Most of us are probably victims without knowing it. The problem is, the more we pay our ransom, the more we are enabling such threats to spread.

STOP THE THREAT!
Always have a DRP.

We dropped the “Noteworthy” segment for this edition to test out how it will be received. Let us know if you miss “Noteworthy”. We also left some related terms in Glossary/Legend. Hope that helps.

One thing we hope to impress on our readers is that this is NOT a technology newsletter. It’s about cybersecurity. It’s about keeping yourself safe in the cyber world. You don’t need to know or have technology to be affected by it - as long as you use it, you’ll be a target of any threat actors.

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Glossary/Legend:

• DRP - Disaster Response Plan. A plan on what to do in times when there is a disaster and you have lost your devices.

• NIL - Name, Image and Likeness. Usually the use of NIL for nefarious purposes.

• Ransomware - Malicious software (or malware) that locks your computer or system until money or a prize is paid.

• Deepfake - A synthetic media that has been manipulated to replace one person's likeness with another. Deepfakes are created by a special type of machine learning called "deep" learning. They can be videos, photos, or audio recordings that appear real but have been manipulated with AI.

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