SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

More than 450 workers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) lost more than $1 million in a direct deposit scam that left postal workers without pay, angry at the USPS for not heeding warnings of the scheme, and the agency scrambling to figure out exactly what happened. This was a not an incredibly technical attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently observed threat actors using sophisticated social engineering tactics to target IT help desks in the health sector. The attackers aim at gaining initial access to target organizations.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

According to a report by the Barracuda cybersecurity company, in 2021, businesses with fewer than 100 employees experienced far more social engineering attacks than larger ones. Encourage employees to create strong passwords for all digital services they use and to protect accounts with multi-factor authentication wherever applicable.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

A sextortion scam campaign attempts to trick victims into believing that the adult site Xvideos.com was hacked and that crooks recorded its visitors. The creativity of cybercriminals is inexhaustible, a new variant of sextortion scam appeared in the threat landscape. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, spam). 95 bitcoins ($3,200).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Related: Coronavirus scams leverage email As we get deeper into dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, the need for authorities and experts to communicate reliably and effectively with each other, as well as to the general public, is vital. That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? How to spot their scam and protect yourself. OnePercent Group attacks. ” Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. These methods are commonly employed in wire fraud and well-known bogus invoice scams. billion on organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Social Tactics. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

Given that 52% of people use the same password for multiple accounts, compromising one account can give a criminal access to a vast range of personal data. Tax documents such as W-2s and 1040s can be purchased for around $1.04, while Social Security numbers range from $0.19 Never use the same password for multiple accounts.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. Financial phishing In 2023, online fraudsters continued to lure users to phishing and scam pages that mimicked the websites of popular brands and financial organizations. Money is what always attracts cybercriminals.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What Is Spear Phishing and How to Avoid It IdentityIQ Have you ever clicked a suspicious link or opened an unexpected attachment, only to realize it was a scam? Spear phishing is a targeted form of cybercrime that focuses on specific individuals or organizations. It adds an extra layer of security beyond passwords.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. According to Iyer, it’s relatively easy and cheap for cybercriminals set up this kind of scam. “

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device. One of the groups that reliably posted “Tmo up!”

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

” “Cybercrime apparently cost the world over $1 trillion in 2020.” The pandemic is providing the perfect cover for cybercrime, as can be seen in the alarming statistic from First Orion that criminals were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019 via vishing or phone scams. COVID-19 Scams.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

The increasing popularity of cryptocurrency is attracting cybercrime that is using different means to target the cryptocurrency industry. Password and info stealers. Experts also warn of scams and other social engineering attacks that cybercriminals use to trick victims into sending funds to the attackers’ wallets.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. Preventing phishing attacks, like the latest phony HR scams, should not fall on individual employees alone. They are fairly convincing emails at first, second and even third glances.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

The goal is to either score an executive password that will provide them with easy entry into business systems and data or facilitate BEC fraud – 72% of whaling attacks impersonate a trusted source. Business email compromise is a sticky, multifaceted cybercrime that almost inevitably starts with a phishing attack. Whale Phishing.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

To top it off, the average amount of money requested in wire transfer business email compromise (BEC) scams reached a whopping $93,881. It means that perpetrators have a greater chance of depositing malicious programs than pilfering passwords via a phony web form. Let's go over the pillars of this corporate philosophy.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Newbies get a taste of what phishing tools can do, pull off their first scam and wish for more, which is when they will be offered paid content. “To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash.” One-time password (OTP) bots.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

During their investigation the police received help from the threat intelligence firm Group-IB that specializes in investigating and preventing cybercrimes. There are a few methods for victims to avoid phishing scams that could lead to emptied bank accounts. Use a password manager. 2FA bypass. Mitigation. Stay safe, everyone!

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

According to Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren at the time, the charges filed against Clark were for “scamming people across America.”. Having bilked victims out of small sums of about $50 for years, Clark is alleged to have eventually worked his way into a scam that involved the theft of $856,000 worth of Bitcoin, at the age of 16.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. Okpoh, Benson and Kayode conducted romance scams and were involved in money laundering along with Uzuh. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an adaptive phishing campaign, attackers gather specific information about victims through various sources, such as social media, public websites, and previous data breaches. One of the key elements of these campaigns is social engineering, which aims to psychologically manipulate victims.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The massive shift to work from home in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a rush to secure a wider range of home devices and networks, and an instant spike in demand for training and services that protect employees in identifying attempted cyberattacks and scams. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

One of the most common techniques used to exploit web users is the phishing scam. If successful, criminals can use this sensitive information to steal from the company or impersonate the executive to scam other company employees. Social Media Phishing. What is Phishing? Clone Phishing. Microsoft 365 Phishing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This means that it would be much easier for scammers to run localized mass campaigns and craft personalized scams based on the data gleaned from the potential victims’ Facebook profiles. People tend to overshare information on social media. Brute-forcing the passwords of the affected Facebook profiles. Spamming 3.8

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. Fake TikTok login page generated by the phishing bot From an engineering standpoint, this is a rather primitive product of a basic phishing kit.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

For example, electronic health records (EHRs) give patients remote access to their data, but users may fall for phishing scams. Social engineering avoidance should be part of all workers’ onboarding processes. Training should cover best practices like using multifactor authentication and strong, unique passwords.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2021

Malware authors and social engineers have relied on shame and the threat of exposure for years. This threat comes from old passwords taken from password dumps—which have probably long since changed—which could lend some believed credibility to the threat. Shaming victims into action.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

We’ve received a number of similar reports from people that have been scammed or simply wanted to alert us. They asked us to download TeamViewer and share the ID and password so they could connect. They typically use the SysKey Windows utility to put a password that only they know. Fake renewal notifications.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. Add to that widespread warnings to use social media circumspectly. Then COVID-19 came along and obliterated societal norms and standard business practices.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The risk of being scammed runs even higher. While on ordinary days, the customer can easily see that if the product is too cheap, it is most likely a scam, during the Black Friday sales, it gets harder to tell. Instead of being the first among buyers, they will join the ranks of scam victims. Phishing and scam: red flags.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

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. Here, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks about a recent development by Blue Origin, the space company he founded. Mark Wilson/Getty Images).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. None of these early threats went pro.

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