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Watch Out for Websites Impersonating Tax Providers and the IRS During Tax Season

Before you click on that email or open that text message — is that really the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or your tax provider? It may not be. BlueVoyant has identified dozens of websites impersonating the IRS, posing a risk to online users. These phishing sites likely aim to steal sensitive information by tricking users into believing they are interacting with the legitimate IRS website. Here are some examples of the phishing sites uncovered by BlueVoyant.

Avoiding Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Agentic AI Use Cases

AI agents work together to complete tasks. For instance, imagine a kitchen. In a home kitchen, we do everything ourselves, come up with the menu, get the ingredients, peel, chop, sauté, and plate — but in restaurants, everyone has different jobs. Agentic AI brings that restaurant-level skill to organize and optimize to you in your kitchen. In the case of cybersecurity, agents can provide the necessary backup for what you can’t get to in a day in the SOC.

AI in Action: Transforming Cyber Defense Strategies with Agentic MDR

While various AI and machine learning automated workflows offer a great deal of insights into complex prediction and computation problems, recent advances in generative AI provide excellent summarization and content generation capabilities for a broad range of use cases. This means that search results are more comprehensive and accurate, often tailored to end-user needs. However, one remaining opportunity is to get the end-to-end job done with accuracy, speed and more importantly, agility.