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Voice Security Leader Mutare Spearheads Vishing Awareness Week to Help Educate & Inform on Growing CyberthreatCHICAGO, April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Mutare, Inc. (Mutare), a leading innovator of enterprise solutions for Voice Threat Defense, is proud to announce their involvement in the second annual Vishing Awareness Week as lead sponsor. Vishing Awareness is a grassroots educational campaign, focused on arming businesses with knowledge of the tactics employed by cybercriminals to execute voice-based attacks, as well as the tools available to combat these rising threats. This year Vishing Awareness Week will be observed April 22-26, 2024. Vishing (voice phishing) is a type of social engineering attack where scammers use voice communication – phone calls – to trick employees into divulging sensitive information, like passwords and financial information, or to perform certain actions, like the transfer of funds. In the past two years, vishers have been increasingly successful targeting enterprise class organizations with attacks on the likes of MGM Resorts, Robinhood, and Twitter (X). Alarmingly, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to Generative AI in their efforts, a tactic that very few businesses are prepared to counterac. "Vishing Awareness Week is a chance for government agencies, business coalitions and private industry to collaborate, to expose trends, and to promote solutions for dealing with issues related to vishing," said Colin Millstone, Chief Marketing Officer at Mutare. "At the end of the day, the better informed we are, and the more we work together, the better chance we have to combat cybercriminals." Mutare has made it an organizational imperative to further conversations around voice-based cyber threats and how to stop them. Some of these initiatives include: • Founding Vishing Awareness Week (lead sponsor), "As a major player in the industry, we have responsibility to lead from the front," said Millstone. "Vishing Awareness Week is another opportunity for us to do just that." About Mutare MEDIA CONTACT View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/voice-security-leader-mutare-spearheads-vishing-awareness-week-to-help-educate--inform-on-growing-cyberthreat-302115925.html SOURCE Mutare, Inc. |