Scammers, at worst, steal sensitive data and/or possessions from individuals and companies. At best, they exist to waste our time. Many of their attempts to scam us, especially via phone calls, are obvious, but they still require us to pick up the phone and listen to their overt deception. It’s time to waste the scammers’ time for a change. That’s …

Deepfakes are a growing concern for cybsecurity experts. As artificial intelligence rapidly improves, so too does its ability to reproduce the voices and faces of real people saying and doing things they didn’t do. Intel wants to fight back. As you can see in this promotional video, Intel Senior Staff Research Scientist Ilke Demir demonstrates the company’s work in fighting …

As highlighted by Bleeping Computer, security researchers discovered over 60,000 Android apps purporting to be legitimate programs have been secretly installing adware on users’ devices for the past six months. The Romanian cybsecurity firm Bitdefender warned, “To date, Bitdefender has discovered 60,000 completely different samples (unique apps) carrying the adware and we suspect there is much more in the wild.” …

Microsoft is working on a fix for a zero-day exploit that targets Secure Boot, a default security feature that prevents malicious software from running on your machine. While there is an initial patch, the full fix could take until 2024, as Morning Brew reports. We learned in March from cybersecurity firm ESET about BlackLotus, a UEFI boot-kit sold on hacker …

AI is in the news constantly, and for good reason: It’s a rapidly evolving tech that has the potential to disrupt many facets of modern life—some good, and some bad. The bad, unfortunately, can be used against your business in new forms of cyberattacks, some worse than others. AI seems poised to change the way bad actors target individuals and …