eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer. Root Everything in Truth.

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Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

In 2021, AARP found that identify theft had affected more than 42 million U.S. Each day people post a plethora of information to social media platforms, giving bad actors plenty of opportunity to steal personal data. Limit the information you share online Social media accounts are a goldmine for cybercriminals.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

From the TAG blog we can learn that Exotic Lily was very much specialized. Last year, researchers found that Exotic Lily used the vulnerability listed as CVE-2021-40444 , a Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Microsoft also posted a blog about attacks that exploited this vulnerability. Social engineering.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Needless to say, in 2021 cybersecurity was front and center for individuals, enterprises, and governments alike. While this was a big task to take on, I have to admit – I’m leaving 2021 behind feeling encouraged and hopeful for cybersecurity in the New Year. The Rise of Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. From there, it’s possible to find devices with privileged accounts and take the attack further. Ransomware?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

of polled executives report that their organizations' accounting and financial data were targeted by cyber adversaries.” ” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahead.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. In 2022, email phishing attacks made up 24% of all spam emails — up from 11% in 2021.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer. Root Everything in Truth.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. Some of those sensitive actions include reading Direct Messages, retweeting, deleting messages, liking messages, and getting account settings. Twitter API. UTM Medium. UTM Source.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Microsoft, for instance, just released the 2021 Digital Defense Report pointing a finger at Russia as making up 58% of all nation-state cyberattack incidents observed by the corporation. According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 15, 2022

In this year’s edition, 82 per cent of incidents were due to a human element, whether that’s being phished, socially engineered, or simple error. Security figures on social media debated exactly what the human factor percentage means. What accounts for the remaining 18 per cent of incidents, if not people?

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim. When is a cybersecurity incident a GDPR data breach?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. Figure 3: Decoy content.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs noted in his blog that at around the same time the emails began rolling out from the FBI server, his KrebsOnSecurity blog received an email from the same email address saying, “Hi its pompompurin. Further reading: Best Zero Trust Security Solutions for 2021.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Charity Fraud Scam Vectors and Social Engineering Techniques. Some of these include phishing, vishing , social media, and crowdfunding platforms. Social Media. A statistic from July, 2021 shows that over 4.48 billion people use social media worldwide. Every dollar you donate goes to a family without a home.”

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2023

We couldn’t resist posting the cheeky creative image from security influencer Brian Kreb’s blog on the incident.) Adding salt to the wound (no pun intended), T-Mobile has also just agreed to pay $350 million over a 2021 breach that affected 76 million people. Many questions remain to be answered by T-Mobile about the incident.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Lapsus$ has used tactics such as social engineering, SIM swapping, and paying employees and business partners for access to credentials and multifactor authentication approvals. The first known extortion attempt by Lapsus$ included the Brazil Health Ministry in December of 2021. Review cloud admin/super admin account audit logs.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

There’s a social engineering element at play here, as an attacker would have to trick a user into visiting a site they control using, for example, a spear phishing or malvertising campaign.”. This is why least privilege accounts and not browsing the internet as an admin are so vital to staying secure.”.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Phishing attacks have steadily been on the rise, and according to Proofpoint's 2021 State of the Phish Report , over half of all participants reported receiving a successful phishing attack in 2020. Criminals use departmental reputation to trick users into trusting phishing lures.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In our last blog, Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update , we wrote about a barcode scanner found on the Google Play store that was infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.AdQR. We have written them a letter so they should remove their Google Play account.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021. million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021. CSOonline.com reports that 94% of malware is delivered via email, and phishing attacks account for more than 80% of security incidents. million to $4.24

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Unfortunately, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3) 2021 report , non-payment or non-delivery scams cost people more than $337 million. If you have an account with the vendor, use a previous known good link or bookmark to access your account and not the one in the email.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. At the beginning of 2021, Kaspersky published a private report about the A41APT campaign. Russian-speaking activity.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. An attack often started with the victim receiving a link to a certain product supposedly offered at an attractive price, by email, in an instant messaging app, or on a social network.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

First surfacing in December 2021 with an extortion demand on Brazil’s Ministry of Health, LAPSUS$ made headlines more recently for posting screenshots of internal tools tied to a number of major corporations, including NVIDIA, Samsung, and Vodafone. In a blog post published Mar. ” LAPSUS$ leader Oklaqq a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Since surfacing in late 2021, LAPSUS$ has gained access to the networks or contractors for some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung. Microsoft blogged about its attack at the hands of LAPSUS$, and about the group targeting its customers.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

COVID-19 contact tracing and testing scams dominated 2020 and continue to do so in 2021. In a Psychology Today blog, security expert Chris Hadnagy notes, “scammers don’t care that you just lost your mom to COVID, or that you have been unemployed for six months, or that your kids are depressed from isolation. COVID-19 Scams.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impersonating domains are a thorny problem for most brands, as our 2021 research proved, when we detected an average of 1,100 impersonating domains and subdomains per year per Digital Shadows client. VIPs and executives can also be impersonated to conduct social engineering attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. ” On April 5, 2021, Everlynn posted a new sales thread to the cybercrime forum cracked[.]to THE LAPSUS$ CONNECTION.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

In a blog post detailing its efforts to track and contain the breach, Microsoft described LAPSUS$ as a “large scale social engineering and extortion campaign.” LAPSUS$ doesn’t appear to be using overtly sophisticated intrusion methods but instead relying on social engineering and purchased accounts.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. In 2021 alone, estimated adjusted losses from BEC totaled $2.4 billion USD globally.

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McAfee

MAY 27, 2021

May 2021 has been an extraordinary month in the cybersecurity world, with the DoD releasing its DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture (DoDZTRA), the Colonial Pipeline being hit with a ransomware attack, and the White House releasing its Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO). I suspect the $4.4M

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) shared the results of their analysis on the evolution of Iran-linked threat actors at the CyberWarCon 2021. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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