The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

provider of digital trust technology designed to protect companies and their customers from digital impersonation fraud, released its inaugural 2024 State of Website Impersonation Scams report. More alarmingly, 37% of respondents learn about website impersonation attacks as a result of “brand shaming” by impacted customers on social media.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 28, 2023

In May 2023, a phishing campaign was launched that targeted a major U.S. energy company, as well as organizations in other industries, such as finance, insurance, manufacturing, and technology. This phishing scam is a reminder of the dangers of QR codes. Report it as a phish, delete, or ignore.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group targeted dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide with Microsoft Teams phishing attacks. Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that the cyberspies conducted highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chat.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A phishing attack recently uncovered by researchers pretends to share information about an electronic funds transfer (EFT) by offering up a link to download an HTML invoice that then loads to a page with Microsoft Office branding that’s hosted on Google Firebase. The email attack bypassed native Microsoft email security controls.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Originally, the technology gained its reputation from its use in entertainment and media. Cybercriminals have been quick to recognize and take advantage of these new capabilities, which has given birth to a new epoch of phishing called "deepfake phishing." The truth is, technology is limited by human activity.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time. Phishing site with chat support.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

When most people think about social media and cybersecurity, they typically think about hackers taking over Instagram accounts or Facebook Messenger scammers taking private information. The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2022 Consumer Impact Report revealed that social media account takeovers have grown by 1,000% in one year.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 What is phishing? This is part of what makes phishing attacks so dangerous.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since then, the company has steadily cast off the need for passwords for various accounts, and by May 2020, 150 million people had stopped using passwords. Now the company is expanding the passwordless push to all Microsoft accounts. Google automatically makes account holders use two-factor authentication. They’re inconvenient.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Researchers last week spotted a phishing campaign that leveraged an online email authentication solution from Zix, in hopes that potential victims would be lulled into a false sense of security. The post Zix tricks: Phishing campaign creates false illusion that emails are safe appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. What is the Most Common Form of Phishing?

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers reported Tuesday that they found two email phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 mailboxes at FedEx and DHL Express that look to extract a user’s work email account. In the FedEx attack, the final phishing page spoofs an Office 365 portal packed with Microsoft branding. Brand impersonation.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. Of course, OOO instructions serve an important business communications function, and a strong strong social media profile is a great way to network with your peers and brand yourself. Social media.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Security researchers at Checkmarx and Illustria recently discovered a campaign in which a threat actor(s) managed to post over 144,000 phishing packages to popular open source platforms, including NPM, PyPi, and NuGet. The descriptions for these packages contained links to phishing campaigns.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

LinkedIn knows it has a problem with bots and fake accounts, and has acknowledged this on more than one occasion. For years, it has been aware of spam, fake job offers, phishing, fraudulent investments, and (at times) malware, and has been trying to combat those issues. What's new? The "About this profile" feature.

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

The threat landscape is constantly updated through new malware and spyware, advanced phishing methods, and new social engineering techniques. The media routinely report incidents and leaks of data that end up publicly accessible on the dark web. Kaspersky detects an average of 400,000 malicious files every day.

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Intezer uncovered a year-long spear-phishing campaign against energy companies. An unknown group has been conducting a year-long spear-phishing campaign against energy companies and other industries around the world. In one example, a fake email account pretending to be from Hyundai Engineering Inc. Getty Images).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. After the unauthorized charges, he had just $300 remaining in his account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Once the recording (for this is what it turned out to be) began with the next line in the pre-programmed speech, with no acknowledgement of my response, I knew I was dealing with a robot powered by technology that simulated a real voice. Phishing evolved. What we see, whether it is shared on social media or by a friend, is suspect.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

Attackers believed to have ties to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) are using Microsoft Teams chats as credential theft phishing lures. The targeted organizations are mostly found among government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Average total annual financial loss for companies from compromised cloud accounts is more than $500,000, according to new research. Average total annual financial loss for companies from compromised cloud accounts is more than $500,000, according to new research. . Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

companies as a primary target of a new phishing scheme. Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The company could not be certain, however, if the V4 phishing kit was involved.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

The purpose of the survey was to gain insight into the top authentication challenges, user experiences and attitudes with modern authentication, and to determine organizational desires to address authentication challenges with phishing-resistant passwordless authentication. Media Contacts: Meghan Locke, Three Rings Inc.,

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Technologies that synthesize realistic fake media, known as deepfakes, are among the newest tools being deployed to enable fraud. The scam began with the employee receiving a phishing message purportedly from the company's chief financial officer requesting an urgent confidential transaction.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2024

In our digitally connected world, passwords are the gateway to protecting our online lives—from email and social media accounts to banking and private data. They can lead to identity theft, financial fraud, private data breaches, and more as a result of accounts being compromised. The consequences of weak passwords are severe.

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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. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2024

Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2, 2024, CyberNewsWire — LayerX , pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and other investors.

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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. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media. “voice phishing” a.k.a. ADVANCED PERSISTENT TEENAGERS.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. emphasized collective action and individual accountability. Themes such as "Our Shared Responsibility" and "Own IT.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some T-Mobile customers logged into their accounts on Wednesday to find another customer’s billing and account information showing on their online dashboards. It said a "temporary system glitch" had misplaced some subscriber account information, causing it to appear on other subscribers’ profile pages.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 6, 2021

Among phishing schemes to emerge recently is one targeting university students with promises of tax refunds. companies that offer online shopping, eSentire said this time it caught attackers spear phishing a professional working in the health care technology industry. “It Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).

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Identity IQ

APRIL 19, 2024

Spear phishing scams , targeting specific individuals, witnessed an alarming 150% increase. Name * First Last Email * Company Name Submit Identity Theft Trends The Rise of AI-Powered Scams As 2024 continues, AI-powered scams are poised to pose a major threat, leveraging sophisticated technology to deceive victims.

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