Armand here, RPost’s product evangelist, writing from beautiful Charlotte. I’ve been discussing security and AI at the International Legal Technology Association conference along with some of my human RPost teammates, Gerlyn, Arianna, and Laura.
Armand here again, your plucky, ready-to-fight RPost product evangelist, reporting for Tech Essentials. Not sure if you caught last Sunday’s 60 Minutes, but they ran a piece that echoes what we’ve been saying in this column for many months now: cybercriminals are getting a lot more sophisticated from a technology and business standpoint.
Armand here again reporting for Tech Essentials. This week, I’m writing to you from…my mom’s basement. This is so that I can try and get in the mindset of a cybercriminal trying to leverage AI to perpetrate a sophisticated email scam.
[If you are a routine kind of person, stop reading here. If you consider yourself to be less bland, I challenge you to read to the end.]
After reading the recent FBI report on the state of email related cybercrime in 2022, one statistic popped out at me, when correlating different parts of the report related to Business Email Compromise and Ransomware.
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