{
  "id": 17882,
  "url": "https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48215/hackers-target-pe-firms-with-old-school-vishing-attacks---google-researchers",
  "title": "Hackers target PE firms with old-school vishing attacks - Google researchers",
  "summary": "As the financial services sector girds itself for the onslaught of AI-powered cyber attacks, dozens of firms have been targeted in recent months by hackers using low-tech techniques such as phone calls, according to security researchers at Google.",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security,children-education",
  "orgs": "google",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T00:01:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "x-finextra-ai",
  "source_name": "Finextra AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.finextra.com/channel/ai",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17882",
  "original_url": "https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48215/hackers-target-pe-firms-with-old-school-vishing-attacks---google-researchers",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}