Coveware’s Ransomware Attacks Report for Q4 2020

The cybersecurity landscape is rapidly transforming, and a recent surge in social engineering attacks, supercharged by Artificial Intelligence, demands our immediate attention. Reports from sources like Manufacturing Business Technology indicate a staggering 42%...

🔍 The Deepfake Dilemma: Are You Prepared?

Deepfakes have elevated cyber deception to unprecedented levels. A notable incident in Hong Kong saw a finance employee transfer $25 million after interacting with what appeared to be their CFO and six colleagueד – each one a convincing deepfake.

These weren’t pre-recorded videos; attackers responded in real time, showcasing the sophistication of modern scams.

As deepfake technology advances, organizations must adapt their cybersecurity strategies to address this emerging threat. By staying informed and proactive, businesses can safeguard their operations and maintain stakeholder trust.

Explore how AUMINT.io can enhance your organization’s defenses against deepfake threats.

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🔒 Insider Mistakes Are Costing Millions

💥 77% of organizations experienced insider data loss in the past 18 months.

⚠️ Almost half were simple human errors – wrong recipients, copied rows, accidental shares.

📊 Budgets are up – 72% increased spending on DLP and insider risk programs.

⏱️ Reality check: 41% still lost millions per event, 9% up to $10M for a single mistake.

☁️ Traditional DLPs fail in SaaS and cloud contexts – alerts flood teams, insights remain invisible.

🔍 Actionable security now means understanding behavior, detecting anomalies, and connecting events into a risk picture.

🚀 AUMINT.io turns alerts into real visibility so teams can stop leaks before they escalate. Book your demo

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📉 DDoS Confidence Is a Dangerous Illusion

🔎 Organizations report heavy investment in DDoS tools yet test protections rarely – 86% test once a year or less.

⚠️ Most teams still run fewer than 200 DDoS simulations per year – that leaves thousands of dormant misconfigurations waiting for real load.

⏱️ Mean detection and manual mitigation time is 23 minutes – enough time for outages and for DDoS to mask a deeper intrusion.

🔧 While 63% claim automated defenses, 99% rely on manual checks – and 60% of vulnerabilities were found where protections supposedly existed.

📊 On average, organizations saw 3.85 damaging DDoS incidents last year – confidence is not the same as capability.

🛠️ The fix is continuous validation – non-disruptive DDoS simulations, automated runbooks that trigger mitigations in seconds, and measurable audit trails.

📈 AUMINT.io simulates attack scenarios and measures both human and tooling responses so you can fix real gaps before they hit production.

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🚨 The Hidden War Inside Your AI Tools

🧠 Every prompt you write could be feeding an invisible enemy.

💻 Attackers now poison the very data that trains AI models – shaping how they “think,” decide, and respond.

⚠️ This manipulation isn’t about breaking the system – it’s about rewriting its logic.

🔍 It’s called AI Data Poisoning and LLM Grooming – subtle cyberattacks that twist large language models to promote biased ideas, false data, or even targeted deception.

🤖 Just 0.1% of tainted data can permanently alter how an AI behaves – and most teams won’t even notice until damage is done.

🧩 Imagine a chatbot subtly promoting false narratives or biased outputs that shape public trust, politics, or brand reputation. That’s not a future threat – it’s happening right now.

🛡️ Organizations must adopt adversarial training, red-team audits, and cryptographic validation to defend their AI ecosystems.

💬 At AUMINT.io, we help companies simulate, detect, and neutralize human and AI manipulation risks before they spread.

👉 Read the full breakdown and practical defense roadmap on AUMINT.io.

🔗 Book your strategy session
to secure your organization’s AI layer.

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🔍 Search Clicks Are Now Attack Surface

🔍 Employees searching payroll portals are being ambushed by SEO-poisoned sites that look authentic.

📱 The campaign targets mobile users – phones lack enterprise EDR and often never show up in SIEM logs.

🔗 Fake portals capture credentials and stream them to attackers via WebSocket – access is exploited in real time.

💸 Attackers then change payroll deposit details – money diverts before detection, and investigations look like human error.

⚙️ Defenses must include bookmarking official portals, conditional access with device posture checks, and behavioral monitoring for credential misuse.

📊 AUMINT.io simulates these search-based lures across mobile and desktop, exposing where your humans and tooling fail.

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📱 Social Posts Could Trigger Your Next Breach

🔐 A simple “Like” or share on a work device can expose your entire network.

👥 Employees using WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Facebook at work are unwittingly feeding attackers entry points – platform design and social trust make it worse.

🔗 One misplaced click on a fraudulent ad or link can unleash malware or phishing across your organisation.

💸 The average breach cost in South Africa hit R53 million in 2024 – human error is the price tag.

🛡️ At AUMINT.io we simulate real-world social media use and messaging staffing-paths to surface your human risk surface and harden your defences.

🚀 Want to see where your weakest exposure is? Schedule your demo

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🕵️‍♂️ Job-Seekers Are the New Frontline for Cyber Attacks

🔍 A threat group called BatShadow is targeting job-seekers and marketers with fake recruitment emails delivering a Go-based backdoor called Vampire Bot.

📧 The lure arrives as a ZIP file claiming to be a job description. Inside: a decoy PDF and a disguised “.pdf.exe” file that launches an infection chain.

💻 The malware profiles the host, captures screenshots, steals credentials, and connects to a remote attacker server – blending into normal traffic and staying hidden.

⚠️ Why it matters: your candidate pipeline may be your weakest human link. One compromised applicant or contractor can expose your network before formal onboarding begins.

📊 Use AUMINT.io to simulate recruitment-style attacks, train your team – and test your human firewalls.

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🔐 Cyber Attacks Targeting Firms Skyrocket

🚨 Professional services firms are now prime targets for sophisticated cybercrime.

🕵️‍♂️ Attackers exploit human trust, impersonate vendors, and manipulate helpdesks to steal sensitive client data.

💰 Double extortion is skyrocketing – attackers steal data first, then demand multi-million-dollar ransoms. Mid-sized firms are most vulnerable.

⚠️ Standard IT controls are no longer enough. Employee awareness, strict MFA, and continuous monitoring are critical defenses.

📊 AUMINT.io simulations expose hidden vulnerabilities and train employees to act as a human firewall.

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🐝 Honeypots Catch Attackers Cheap and Fast

🐝 Honeypots are decoys that legitimate users never touch – when they trigger, you know an attacker is inside your sightline.

🔍 Simple decoys like fake admin accounts, bogus API keys, or dummy repos produce high-fidelity alerts without the false-positive noise of costly SIEM setups.

⚠️ In one real case, planted OAuth tokens exposed a contractor trying to exfiltrate sensitive data in days – setup cost: a few hours.

🧭 For budget-constrained teams, honeypots change the detection game – you chase signals that should never exist, not faint anomalies buried in normal logs.

🛡️ They are not a cure-all – pair them with social engineering simulations, least-privilege policies, and continuous monitoring to close the human gaps attackers exploit.

📊 AUMINT.io simulates realistic human-targeted attacks and shows you where employees or vendors will likely fall for lures that lead attackers to your crown jewels.

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