Oracle has discovered a vulnerability in some of its PeopleSoft software that is remotely exploitable without authentication and can result in remote code execution if exploited by hackers, the company said in a Wednesday (June 10) security alert. The vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) is in Oracle PeopleSoft...
The United States’ lead cybersecurity agency is pivoting toward a strategy of “ruthless” prioritization as it grapples with a wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) mandates and a depleted workforce. Acting Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Nick Andersen, speaking Tuesday (June 9) at...
Fifth Third Bancorp was invited to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative, Seeking Alpha reported Wednesday (June 10). The bank’s chief financial officer, Bryan Preston, said at the Morgan Stanley U.S. Financials Conference that Fifth Third was granted access to the initiative within the past several weeks, according to the report. “We think it...
Financial fraud today is no longer chaotic. It is being optimized by artificial intelligence. Across the lending industry, a new category of fraud is emerging that combines deepfake video, cloned voices, synthetic identity creation, fabricated employment histories and AI-generated financial behavior into a single engineered...
A spike in incidents of financial fraud has reportedly turned America’s bank tellers into quasi-detectives. That’s according to a report Sunday (June 7) from The New York Times (NYT), which noted that this is happening against the backdrop of a five-fold increase in cybercrime losses,...
Google’s cybersecurity organizations said Friday (June 5) that data theft extortion groups are targeting professional, legal and financial services organizations by impersonating IT support. These groups are posing as IT technicians remotely and in person, Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group wrote in a Friday blog post. In remote campaigns,...
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Klarna has launched a new security measure designed to protect its customers from impersonation scams. The company has added to its app a Klarna Inbox that mirrors all official communications from the company to the customer, including emails, SMS, push notifications and physical letters, it...
Google has introduced a fake-call detection feature designed to combat impersonation fraud enabled by spoofed phone numbers and artificial intelligence (AI) deepfake technology. Fake call detection works if both the user and their contact are using Phone by Google, the company said in a Tuesday (June 2) blog post....