Not all FBI cybersecurity advice is helpful, and some can be downright dangerous—here’s what you need to know.
Update, Dec. 20, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 19 now updated with details of how the NSA as well as the FBI is offering outdated security advice.
Warning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is wrong, very wrong indeed, about recommended mitigation advice for people who may fall victim to email phishing scams isn’t what I thought I’d be doing today, yet here we are., highlighting three particularly prevalent attack methodologies, and the mitigation advice offered is mainly sound and sensible.
Referring to recent reports suggesting massive increases in credential phishing email attacks, Callie Guenther, senior manager of cyber threat research at detection and response provider Critical Start, said that the rises “align with the expanded use of generative AI, which enables attackers to produce natural-language phishing content at scale, localize campaigns across languages, and automate deep personalization.
What the FBI should be saying is what it said in that other PSA, that generative AI is now at the point where it’s good enough, and cheap enough, for criminals to be using it to create spelling error-free and grammatically correct phishing emails in any language so don’t rely on that old “check for errors” advice when it comes to mitigation.
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