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1. Identity or Credential Theft

The majority of cyber attacks and breaches occur because of compromised or stolen credentials. If a hacker obtains your credentials, they will have unrestricted access to all of your confidential data.

Everything from social media to email to cloud storage to medical and financial records is fair game. Data stolen through compromised credentials may be used to steal your identity and damage your finances.

2. Malware/Ransomware
There are several entry points for malware and ransomware. It may be sent as an attachment or linked to in an email, or it can be put on a website and downloaded when the user accesses the page. Malware authors always seek new methods to evade conventional security measures.

The user anticipates receiving traffic in the form of emails and requested/visited websites. The fact that email and websites are now taken for granted causes us to occasionally let our defenses down.

3. Artificial Intelligence Phishing
When a hacker use AI to create a phishing attack, they are committing AI phishing. Mistakes in language or spelling are two of the most traditional red flags for a phishing email. These are now irrelevant because of AI phishing.

Ask yourself these three things whenever you get an email:

Did I anticipate getting this message? It’s not always bad to open an unexpected email.
Is this a real mailing address? It’s possible for addresses to seem quite similar to real ones.
Is there a download or link I need to click on? Keep an eye out for connections at all times. It’s possible that the text of the link won’t exactly reflect the destination URL.

4. Protecting Personal Information
The confidentiality of a company’s information is essential to the smooth running of daily activities. The loss of proprietary information may leave a corporation vulnerable to imitation.

Data ‘leakage’ occurs when sensitive information is made public without the intended recipient’s knowledge or consent. ChatGPT is the most modern data leaking vector.

ChatGPT was commissioned to write some code by Samsung’s engineering team. They did this by giving the AI access to sensitive information by sharing code with it, which the AI then made public.

5. Website Imitation
Spoofing occurs when a malicious website masquerades as the legitimate one. This is the norm for websites’ homepages that need sign-in. When a person visits a fake website believing it to be legitimate, the fraudulent website steals their login information before sending them to the legitimate website.

The user is sent to the genuine page where they are prompted to input their credentials before being granted access. The user has unwittingly granted the attacker access to their account on the website in question.

Office 365, Dropbox, and box.com, among others, have been frequent targets of this kind of assault. Make that the website has a valid certificate by looking for a padlock icon next to the URL.