This week, hosts of N2K CyberWire Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner alongside Joe Carrigan are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow up on what else? Joe’s chickens! Oh Dottie! And he also shares a fun LinkedIn translator from Kagi. Dave shares a site that writes phishing emails to your chosen targets including famous and fictional people to helps users learn what to look for in phishing attempts.
Maria discusses a new spin on pig butchering scams to recruit people to be AI face models and use them at scale. Joe shares INTERPOL’s Global Financial Fraud Assessment and the current trends that AI is enabling at a rapid pace. Dave’s story is about the evolving and increasingly more lucrative practices of refund fraud. Our Catch of the Day comes from Reddit about a overly insistent scammer to be.
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