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Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

Stopping people from falling for phishing attacks isn’t working. So what are organizations to do?

Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. Phishing attacks, particularly those relying on voice calls, have emerged as a key method for ransomware groups and other sorts of threat actors to breach defenses of some of the world’s most fortified organizations. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.

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