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How Cybercriminals Are Leveraging AI to Build Better Attacks

NexusTek

AI enhances this process by analyzing social media profiles, email histories, and other publicly available data to craft personalized, convincing messages. AI-Powered Malware : AI can be used to develop malware that adapts in real time to evade detection. This increases the likelihood of victims falling for these scams.

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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: What To Expect And How To Prepare

LAN Infotech

In 2025, expect to see AI do the heavy lifting for hackers, creating highly targeted phishing scams, developing malware that adapts in real time and automating attacks that evolve faster than traditional security defenses. While it powers sophisticated defenses, it’s also supercharging cybercrime.

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Crisis Management Quotables…on the Ones You Don’t See Coming

Bernstein Crisis Management

A staff member plugging a USB stick loaded with malware into a company device. A random fire, sparked by an electrical issue next door. A global pandemic appearing on your doorstep to say, “…about those plans you had for the next few years.” ” Don’t tell me it can’t happen to you.

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Inside Look: How Hackers Use AI To Attack Your Business

LAN Infotech

Hackers use AI to: Scrape social media and business websites for personal details. Alternatively, the link may install malware on your system, silently giving hackers access to your data, keystrokes or even your entire network. AI-Driven Malware AI enables hackers to create malware that evolves quickly. The result?

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These social media mistakes can endanger your business’s cybersecurity posture

Online Computers

Social media offers numerous benefits to businesses, such as increased brand visibility, customer engagement, and networking opportunities. But if your employees fail to use social media responsibly, it can pose significant cybersecurity risks to your business. Alarmingly, human errors remain a top risk for many organizations.

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Ransomware: How to Protect Yourself Before It is Too Late

Zerto

According to the Center for Internet Security , ransomware is a type of malware that blocks access to a system, device, or file until a ransom is paid by the attack victim. A compromise by another malware that leads to an infection of ransomware. There are core differences in how the malware operates. What is Ransomware? –

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What’s the Worst-case Scenario for a Ransomware Attack?

Pure Storage

The attacker sends malware into your system and gains access to your data. . They then plant malware in the system, which usually runs undetected in the background for a period of time until the attacker decides to get the party started. . The malware infects or deletes Active Directory. .

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