ISMG Editors: Real-Time Vishing Is Breaking MFA

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In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed real-time vishing attacks that are defeating multifactor authentication, the growing problem of AI agents making conflicting decisions inside of enterprises and why the next phase of AI adoption depends on governance, accountability and control.

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The panelists - Suparna Goswami, executive editor, Asia; Anna Delaney, executive director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor, DataBreachToday and Europe; and Tony Morbin, executive news editor, EU - discussed:

• How real-time vishing attacks are increasingly bypassing traditional MFA by combining live social engineering with advanced phishing toolkits, enabling attackers to trick employees into approving login requests and gain access to SaaS environments at scale;
• How the rapid, ungoverned deployment of multiple AI agents inside enterprises is leading to conflicting ...