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fromTheregister
8 hours ago

Ericsson breach blamed on third party vendor vishing attack

A voice-phishing attack on an Ericsson service provider exposed personal data of over 15,000 individuals, including names, Social Security numbers, and government-issued IDs.
fromSecurityWeek
1 week ago

Ad Tech Company Optimizely Targeted in Cyberattack

The threat actor gained access to Optimizely's systems through a sophisticated voice-phishing attack, but was unable to escalate privileges, install software, or create any backdoors in the Optimizely environment. The incident was confined to certain internal business systems including Zendesk, records in our Salesforce CRM, and a limited set of internal documents used for back-office operations.
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