Cybercriminals in Germany increasingly use social engineering and impersonation of legitimate processes instead of pure malware techniques, as the Gen Report shows with increases of 134 percent in fake shop fraud and 160 percent in dropper malware.
Bitdefender offers Realcheck, a tool for detecting manipulated videos, though its practical effectiveness against increasingly sophisticated deepfakes remains questionable.
New phishing campaigns exploit genuine Microsoft authentication dialogs to manipulate users into granting access authorization, bypassing password theft and multi-factor authentication.
Pig Butchering has become an industrialized, cross-border fraud system with a division of labor structure, in which forced laborers are sometimes also involved.
