by Gene Reich | Aug 26, 2025 | Cybersecurity Threats, Pretexting, Scattered Spider, Social Engineering
Why Trust-Based Attacks Are Surging In 2023, Clorox reported in court filings that attackers posing as company representatives contacted its IT service provider, Cognizant, and successfully obtained privileged system access. The impostors cited legitimate-sounding...
by Gene Reich | Aug 20, 2025 | AI Fraud Prevention, Cybersecurity Threats, Cybersecurity Trends, Scattered Spider, Social Engineering
Replacing Voice with Proven Identity The recent rise in impersonation-based fraud has brought renewed scrutiny to how identity is verified during routine digital interactions. As discussed in our earlier analysis of Sam Altman’s July 2025 warning, artificial...
by Gene Reich | Aug 19, 2025 | AI Fraud Prevention, Cybersecurity Threats, Cybersecurity Trends, Reader's Choice, Social Engineering, Vishing
Transitioning to Identity-Verified Communication Last week, we examined how identity-based fraud is reshaping security priorities across IT, finance, and vendor management. That discussion began with a warning from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, delivered to regulators and...
by Gene Reich | Jul 24, 2025 | Clorox and Cognizant, Cybersecurity for MSPs, Cybersecurity Threats, Reader's Choice, Scattered Spider
In a lawsuit filed this week in California state court, Clorox alleges that IT provider Cognizant Technology Solutions enabled one of the most damaging cybersecurity breaches in the company’s history, due to a lack of secure processes in routine support interactions...
by Gene Reich | Jul 15, 2025 | Cybersecurity Threats, Cybersecurity Trends, Ephemeral Messaging, Secure Communication
The Next Frontier in Cyber Defense Cybersecurity, for much of its history, has focused on systems. It has invested in firewalls, intrusion detection, endpoint protection, and increasingly sophisticated authentication methods. But as threat actors evolve, so too do...
by Gene Reich | Jul 8, 2025 | Cybersecurity Threats, Data Exfiltration, Ephemeral Messaging, Scattered Spider, Vishing
Emerging Threat Groups Targeting North American Enterprises The name Scattered Spider has become shorthand for a particular brand of chaos: high-profile ransomware, deep social engineering, and sprawling supply chain infiltration (if you haven’t read our report...
