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The Rise of AI in Phishing: Will future phishing attacks that leverage artificial intelligence be more dangerous?

Adlumin, a startup working on technology to boost security for mid-market firms, has banked $70 million in new funding led by SYN Ventures.

The personal information of students, applicants, alumni, and employees compromised in University of Michigan data breach.

The number of Cisco devices hacked via recent zero-days remains high, but the attackers have updated their implant.

Canada on warned of a "Spamouflage" disinformation campaign linked to China that used waves of online posts and deepfake videos.

SecurityWeek’s 2023 ICS Cybersecurity Conference kicks off in Atlanta with presentations on a wide range of topics. 

Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown on cyber scams, but the criminal networks remain intact.

Blockaid raises a Series A funding round to build technology to secure blockchain applications from hacks and scams.

Hackers access the personal information of Casio customers after compromising the server for an education web application.

Rockwell Automation agreed to acquire ICS/OT cybersecurity firm Verve Industrial Protection to expand its offerings.

SolarWinds patches high-severity flaws in its Access Rights Manager product, including three unauthenticated remote code execution issues.

Since 2020, Island has raised a total of $325 million to help protect corporate data flowing through SaaS and internal web applications.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections says full voter roll compromised in a recent data breach at hosting provider DataNet.

Cisco has found a second zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in recent attacks as the number of hacked devices has started dropping.

Okta warns that hackers broke into its support case management system and stole sensitive data that can be used to impersonate valid users.

Summary of notable cybersecurity news stories that may be top headlines, but are important for the week of October 16, 2023.

The Philippine defense chief ordered the 163,000-member military to stop using applications that harness AI to generate personal portraits, saying they could pose security risks.

The RagnarLocker ransomware group’s dark web leak site has been seized in a coordinated law enforcement operation.

Silicon Valley fraud detection startup attracts $15 million in new financing from SignalFire, Legion Capital and Rally Ventures.

Iran-linked hacking group Crambus spent eight months inside a compromised network of a Middle Eastern government, Broadcom’s Symantec cybersecurity unit reports.