NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In the spirit of this year’s theme, we created a parody of the Monster Mash to share social engineering prevention tips far and wide. Some platforms or services require MFA while others include it as an option for user accounts.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Malware Attack Explained Threat actors use social engineering […] The post Warning! New Malware Hijacks YouTube and Facebook Accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

What is social engineering? Social engineering is a manipulative technique used by criminals to elicit specific actions in their victims. Social engineering is seldom a stand-alone operation. money from a bank account) or use it for other social engineering types.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Historically, account takeover (ATO) has been recognized as an attack in which cybercriminals take ownership of online accounts using stolen passwords and usernames. The post What You Need to Do Today to Protect Against Account Takeover Attacks appeared first on Blog. They use these credentials to deploy bots […].

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

FlyTrap works based on a few simple social engineering tactics used to trick victims into using their Facebook credentials to log into malicious apps that are able to collect the data associated with the social media session. The post Facebook Accounts Hijacked by FlyTrap Malware appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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The State of Security

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. Impersonators create fake social media accounts that include the names, images, logos, or other identifying information, of a person, brand, or organization. billion fake accounts in 2021.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

A threat actor successfully used compromised employee credentials to gain access to 133 accounts on Mailchimp, the mainstream Intuit-owned email marketing platform, in a security incident that recently came to light. "On The blog further asserts the company's compromise had not affected other Intuit systems or other Mailchimp customer data.

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Identity IQ

JULY 3, 2023

How to Detect and Respond to Account Misuse IdentityIQ As digital connectivity continues to grow, safeguarding your online accounts from misuse is becoming increasingly crucial. Account misuse can result in alarming repercussions, including privacy breaches, financial losses, and identity theft.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

In this type of cybercrime, attackers use clever social engineering techniques to persuade victims to take action, which results in sharing sensitive data and financial details, including account […]. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The post What Is Vishing?

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The large number of subscribers has attracted threat groups that are looking to score with a social engineering campaign. Scammers send phishing emails trying to convince Netflix users that their account is somehow in jeopardy, and […].

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 17, 2020

I'll try and put aside a day early next week to get on top of that one but for now, here's this week's: References Choosing what products to endorse is a thoughtful process (enough so that I wrote an entire blog post about it a few years ago) NDC Melbourne is nearly here! and isn't in Melbourne!) A brand new YouTube show from Varonis.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and the muPDF/Subliminal Recording software installer have been backdoored to perform a wide range of social engineering campaigns that started in April 2022. Microsoft has published the full list of IoCs (indicators of compromise) observed during investigations in their blog post.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." However, the damage seems to go far beyond the accounts with reused passwords.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

A huge economy has developed within the gaming community: People buy and sell in-game objects, character modifications, and even accounts. Account takeovers. Bad actors are always on the lookout for easy-to-breach gaming accounts. Once stolen, they can resell an account or its contents to interested buyers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2021

Regular readers will be aware this means someone is about to have their bank account emptied, or have themselves turned into a money mule. Should we happen to get one, we’ll update this blog post in due course. The post Beware, crypto-scammer seeks foreigner with BLOCK CHAIN ACCOUNT appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, easy to remember and reused passwords are weak passwords that can easily be cracked and leveraged across accounts. This process only needs to be set up once and will ensure your accounts are much more secure. Use Multifactor Authentication (MFA) You can view Multifactor Authentication as a secondary defense for your accounts.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The best way to stay up-to-date with the recent trends is by reading the top cybersecurity blogs. Here’s our list of the best cybersecurity blogs to read and follow. Securing Tomorrow SecuringTomorrow is a blog by McAfee, one of the biggest security software providers. The main focus here is the social side of data loss.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids). The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The benefit of these codes is that they are random numbers, so they can be difficult to guess, and they cannot be reused across a user’s different accounts (like passwords typically are). Social Engineering: An attacker logs in with a user’s credentials and the real user gets sent an OTP.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Phishing vs. Vishing “While email may still be the most common mechanism for social engineering, we increasingly see attacks via social media, platforms such as WhatsApp, physical compromise, snail mail, and phone calls,” says ethical hacker FC in a blog. Scammers are primarily financially motivated.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

The CFO commonly carries out such tasks and arranges a wire transfer using the account information provided on the invoice. In actuality, the request is coming from a BEC fraud ring, and the payment details direct the funds to an account controlled by the attackers. Scenario 2. Scenario 3. Planned attacks.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recently, Amazon announced that it will require all privileged Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) , starting in mid-2024. Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

The seed phrase can be used for gaining or recovering access to the user’s account and making any transactions. The seed phrase cannot be changed or recovered: by misplacing it, the user risks losing access to their wallet for good, and by giving it to scammers, permanently compromising their account. ripple.com.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Updating software Cisco Duo is all about cybersecurity, so every week we’re going to publish a blog focused on those respective topics. Cybercriminals can harvest this information through social engineering and deduce your password. Unique for Each Account: Avoid reusing passwords across multiple accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

This blog post aims to share the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs) so defenders can take action. We have observed several different advertiser accounts which were all reported to Google. We have reported this campaign to Google but no action has been taken yet.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. Threat Traced to Nigeria.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

“Eventually, the threat actor was able to compromise both the Windows and macOS build environments,” 3CX said in an April 20 update on their blog. In many cases, the phony profiles spoofed chief information security officers at major corporations , and some attracted quite a few connections before their accounts were terminated.

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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 Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The link to the git repository could be used in social engineering attacks against the platform developers to gain access to the repository, and in turn, steal the source code of the site. If exposed, such information could enable the threat actor to impersonate a victim and access applications illegitimately.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Commission-free stock trading company Robinhood published a blog post announcing it was the victim of a data security incident where hackers obtained 500 million email addresses, 200 million full names, and more specific personal information including names, birthdates, and zip codes of about 310 people.

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Javvad Malik

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

According to a German study, lightning strikes accounted for 80% of wind turbine insurance claims. Unpatched software, poor credentials or lack of MFA, misconfigured software, or social engineering. During its first full year of operation, lightning-related damage for one southwestern commercial wind farm exceeded $250,000.

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