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CPA firms taking advantage of compliance software to connect to a company's operations means an audit doesn't need to take such a large chunk of time, and businesses can keep their momentum. These compliance tools aggregate and store information, complete daily security testing, monitor results, and highlight potential issues, simplifying the data-gathering process for auditors and sparing companies time validating their operations.

AI has already become a part of business as usual, as enterprises leverage and integrate new features and tools into their day-to-day workflows, multiplying the volume of transactions and data generated. Despite the mounting security risk and increasing number of data protection incidents, enterprises are adopting AI tools in large numbers.

In this Help Net Security video, Shai Gabay, CEO of Trustmi, discusses why payments are a source of cyber worry for CISOs. CISOs are worried about Business Email Compromise, cyber attackers' use of AI, and securing the supply chain.

Threat actors automate attacks with AI. The use of AI to accelerate these attacks is gaining significant attention among major cybercriminal forums with growing interest in weaponizing this technology. AI systems can now replicate a voice using a sample, and video-call deepfakes are aiding threat actors.

The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country. One issue Beijing wanted the junta to address was the proliferation of scam centers in Myanmar, as they often prey on Chinese netizens.

Of these compromised identity records, one in four contained information about the user's network or physical location, putting the individual's identity, platforms they have access to, and physical well-being at risk. Taking a deeper look into how stolen data empowers bad actors to perpetrate cybercrimes including account takeover, fraud, and ransomware, researchers analyzed the exposures of the average digital identity being traded in the criminal underground and found that the average identity appears in as many as nine breaches and is associated with 15 breach records.

One thing that makes the service stand out is that it approaches the targets using the Rich Communication Services protocol for Google Messages and iMessage instead of SMS for sending phishing messages. "The Darcula platform has been used for numerous high-profile phishing attacks over the last year, including messages received on both Apple and Android devices in the UK, as well as package scams impersonating United States Postal Service highlighted in numerous posts on Reddit's /r/phishing." - Netcraft.

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Microsoft reminded customers today that the Windows 11 22H2 Home and Pro editions will continue to receive non-security preview updates until June 26. According to the new schedule, the preview updates for Windows 11 22H2 will keep rolling out for Home and Pro users until late June.