Curated Daily News for October 12, 2020

Today’s 12 newsworthy articles include: Using neural networks to detect Social Engineering, Understanding the value of security solutions, Morgan Stanley fined $60m for mishandled hardware, Cyber Command tricking Trickbot, and the details of how Emotnet works.

• What Is Smishing? Definition, Examples & Protection Tips
• DEF CON 28 Safe Mode AI Village – Younghoo Lee’s & Joshua Saxe’s ‘Detecting Social Engineering Emails With A Bleeding Edge Neural Model’
• How Cybersecurity Leaders Can Understand the Value of Their Organization’s Security Solutions
• Hacker groups chain VPN and Windows bugs to attack US government networks
• Negligent data center shutdowns bring $60 million fine for Morgan Stanley
• Foreign hackers are targeting federal, state and local IT networks, feds warn
• CISOs Planning on Bigger Budgets: Report
• Sophisticated Android Ransomware Executes with the Home Button
• How Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Teams Spot Attacks Before They Start
• Cybersecurity in The Post-Pandemic Economy
• Emotet 101: How the Ransomware Works — and Why It’s So Darn Effective
• Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks