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Email-driven identity attacks have surpassed vulnerability exploits as the leading cause of ransomware incidents, shifting attention toward credential misuse. Although MFA was present in 97% of credential-based attacks, weak implementations and attacker bypass techniques often rendered it ineffective. The article emphasises phishing-resistant MFA and stronger identity-security controls.
Recent breaches show attackers using AI throughout the entire attack chain—not only to create phishing messages—resulting in faster and more adaptive operations. Security teams should update incident-response playbooks, detection logic, and threat-hunting practices to address AI-assisted campaigns with shorter dwell times.
High-value activities such as wire transfers, payment-detail changes, credential resets, and data-access approvals often rely on a single voice, video, email, or chat message as proof of identity and authority. AI-generated fraud and deepfakes exploit this channel-based trust, highlighting the need for stronger, multistep authorisation and verification processes.
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Cyber This Week Edition 99 explores machine identities, API-token risk, autonomous AI agents, strategic cyber leadership, ransomware response, data breaches, collaboration security, and defence-in-depth.
Cyber This Week Edition 98 explores breach concealment, cyber metrics, threat visibility, continuous identity verification, board accountability, agentic AI, and cyber resilience.
Cyber This Week Edition 97 explores AI-speed cyber risk, disaster recovery, security assurance, OT zero trust, cyber insurance, SOC containment, vendor risk, critical infrastructure, and quantum readiness.
