CyberheistNews Vol 15 #24 [Red Alert] How a Fake Cybersecurity Firm Turned Out a Real Threat

This CyberheistNews issue highlights sophisticated social-engineering campaigns: FIN7 created a fake cybersecurity company to recruit and coerce skilled professionals into conducting network reconnaissance and deploying backdoors; North Korean and other actors are using AI-generated personas and tools to fraudulently obtain jobs and perform intelligence collection; and voice-phishing (vishing) and AI-enabled phishing are being used as initial access vectors that have led to ransomware and data theft in sectors such as travel.