Vishing in the Wild

Jun 4, 2025
37 mins

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Nick Guttilla and Emily Astranova, from Mandiant Consulting's Offensive Security team, join host Luke McNamara for an episode on voice-based phishing, or "vishing." Nick and Emily cover their respective blogs and experiences, diving into how they employ vishing techniques to social engineer organizations--both organically and using AI-powered voice cloning to mimic specific employees--during red team engagements.  

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/technical-analysis-vishing-threats?e=48754805

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-powered-voice-spoofing-vishing-attacks?e=48754805.

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