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Help Net Security: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI in the Presidential Election
Mon, 12/25/2023
2024 is a presidential election year in the U.S. and Ryan Maltzen, Cybersecurity Architect at Fortra, predicts an increase in attempts to influence votes through propaganda and social media campaigns, aided by the use of generative AI.
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VM Blog: Braving the Digital Risk & Email Security Landscape
By Eric George on Fri, 12/15/2023
How will the digital risk and email security landscape evolve in 2024? In this VM Blog article, Eric George discusses the industry's future and shares his seven predictions for 2024.
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Solutions Review: Social Media Scams Impacting Businesses and Individuals Today
By John Wilson on Thu, 11/02/2023
In this Solutions Review article, John Wilson highlights common social media scams, their impact on businesses, and ways to safeguard yourself and your organization.
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CFO Dive: AI Linked to New Crop of Business Email Scams
John Wilson spoke to CFO Dive about Fortra’s recent report on business email compromise. He discussed the recent surge in the number of malicious or untrustworthy emails detected in corporate inboxes.
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Digital Journal: FBI’s Warning Around Sextortion Schemes
The FBI has issued a warning about the use of "deepfakes" in a new wave of sextortion schemes. In his interview with Digital Journal, John Wilson examines the techniques used and provides valuable tips to help protect children from such scams.
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Forbes Advisor: Beware Of Loan Scams
In his latest Forbes Advisor article, John Wilson discusses loan scams and shares 7 red flags to help identify and avoid fraudulent loan offers.
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ConsumerAffairs: Phishing Attempts are Growing Like Wildfire and Becoming Harder to Detect
John Wilson spoke to ConsumerAffairs about today’s phishing scam scene and provided tips to recognize legitimate emails from phishing attempts.
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Forbes Advisor: Your Payment Cards Face A Growing Threat From Hackers
Safeguarding our credit and debit cards is something we all need to prioritize. In his latest Forbes Advisor article, John Wilson provides tips to keep your payment card details safe from fraud.
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Forbes: 8 Ways To Keep Your Social Security Number Safe From Identity Theft
It’s difficult to control your Social Security number in the wild. In his September contribution to Forbes Advisor, John Wilson discusses the most common scams involving Social Security numbers and provides 8 steps individuals can take to prevent identity fraud.
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Crucial Tech Podcast with John Wilson: Hybridized Vishing Attacks
In Cyber Protection Magazine’s Crucial Tech podcast, John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research, delves into the latest research from Agari and PhishLabs by Fortra.
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Forbes: What is Vishing, and Why is it a Threat to Your Financial Health?
In his August contribution to Forbes Advisor, John Wilson explains what vishing is, the most common vishing scams and how individuals and organizations can protect themselves from vishing scammers.
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ZDNet: Scammers Are Using This Sneaky Trick to Bypass Spam Filters
Hybrid vishing (email-initiated voice phishing) attacks are on the rise. In this ZDNet article, John Wilson discusses the findings from the latest Agari and PhishLabs research and explains what organizations can do to help prevent hybrid vishing attacks.
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Response-Based Email Threats Targeting Corporate Inboxes Are The Highest Since 2020, According To Fortra's Latest Agari And PhishLabs Report
Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41 percent of all email-based scams targeting employees, during Q2 of this year. This is according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs, part of the Fortra cybersecurity portfolio.
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Forbes: Scammers are Cracking Today’s More Secure Passwords
In his latest Forbes Advisor article, John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, looks at how fraudsters are targeting multifactor authentication and provides 3 ways to protect yourself.
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Email Fraud Cyber Work Podcast Featuring John Wilson
John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra features in this episode of Infosec’s Cyber Work Podcast. John covers all aspects of email fraud including business email compromise and phishing, and shares career tips and advice for budding threat researchers at all levels.
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Intelligent CIO: Interview with Ciaran Rafferty, Managing Director of Email Security, Fortra
Ciaran Rafferty, Managing Director, Email Security at Fortra, shares his thoughts on everything from cybersecurity trends to the future of email security in this interview with Intelligent CIO.
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The Dark Side of Business Email Attacks
Episode 194 of the Hacking Human’s podcast features John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Agari by Fortra.
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5 Old Social Engineering Tricks Employees Still Fall For and 4 New Gotchas
John Wilson, Agari by Fortra, features throughout this CSO Online article looking at why people still fall for simple social engineering scams. Find out what “old tricks” still work and what’s new trends are emerging.
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Safety Detectives Interview With Mike Jones – Fortra's Agari
Find out how Agari’s brand protection product help organizations secure their email and why the current stress on the world’s global supply chain makes them more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.