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The Checkbox Isn't the Point + HalluSquatting and Other AI Risks
IT channel and business news with a focus on regulatory compliance.
⏲️ Does Speed Undermine Compliance Credibility?
Nearly nine in ten cybersecurity practitioners, people who live inside compliance programs every day, believe a fast certification is a less credible one. That’s not a fringe opinion. That’s a consensus. But what happens when clients demand quick answers?
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🎙️ Podcast: Positioning and Packaging Compliance — without FUD.
MSPs keep asking how to sell compliance without sounding like a fearmongering weirdo or a walking control spreadsheet. This episode is a talk from ChannelPro Chicago on why compliance sales usually go sideways, and what to do instead…
🚨 Cyber Risk: AI Squatting Takes Many Forms
AI hallucinations are creating a new supply-chain problem for MSPs and the organizations they protect, and the threat has a few names worth remembering: phantom squatting, slopsquatting, and hallusquatting (HalluSquatting). For MSPs, that matters because one bad AI-suggested link or dependency can flow through shared tooling, scripts, and support workflows into multiple client environments, turning a single hallucination into a multi-tenant incident…
⚠️ Threat Updates
🔴 Ghost Phishing Wave Hides Microsoft 365 Account Takeovers Inside Encrypted HTML
A new “ghost phishing” wave in the EvilTokens campaign is gaining attention where attackers use AES-GCM-encrypted HTML and Microsoft Device Code Phishing to keep a malicious login page invisible until it decrypts inside the victim’s browser. The trick creates a visibility gap: email and URL checks may look clean, while the browser renders the real phishing page and pushes the user into authorizing Microsoft 365 access for the attacker. MSPs should treat suspicious Microsoft login prompts, device-code flows, and encrypted HTML attachments or links as high risk, then look for unusual browser-rendered phishing content, unauthorized M365 sessions, and rapid follow-on access to mailboxes, files, and cloud services. » More Info
🔴 RedWing MaaS Android Spyware Turns Banking Fraud into a Telegram Rental Service
Threat researchers have detailed RedWing, a new Android malware-as-a-service kit marketed on Telegram that packages full-device spying and bank fraud into subscription tiers, builder bots, and turnkey phishing pages. The operation lures victims with mobile phishing links that mimic Google Play, Galaxy Store, or AppGallery, then walks them through sideloading a “legit” app and granting dangerous permissions — including Accessibility, default SMS handler, battery exemptions, and call-forwarding — that together give operators live screen access, credential overlays, one-time code interception, and silent diversion of verification calls using carrier codes like 21. MSPs should treat any Android “update” or banking app sent via link or SMS as suspect, enforce policies that block sideloading on managed devices, flag apps that request Accessibility or default-SMS roles, and monitor for call-forwarding activations and overlay behavior that could indicate RedWing or similar MaaS tooling is harvesting credentials and bypassing two-factor protections inside their mobile fleets. » More Info
🗨️ Parting Words
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” —Sydney J. Harris
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