eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in attacks carried out between August and September. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed the APT group making more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and then attack 241 of those accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Russia-linked cyber-espionage groups have used common tactics, such as spear-phishing, and brute force attacks. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. For $200, vetted users could hire his botnet to blast one million emails containing malware or ads for male enhancement drugs.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ” concludes the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

SIM swapping attacks were the key reason that back in 2011, NIST deprecated SMS-based OTP authentication. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the United States and ENISA in the European Union both called for not using OTP authentication because it is not phishing resistant. Every user is a potential target.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

ZeuS usually arrives via phishing campaigns, spam campaigns, and drive-by downloads. Once a machine gets infected, ZeuS immediately steals information from web browsers and Windows’ protected storage (PStore) , such as banking or financial information and stored account credentials, respectively. According to SecureWorks, ZeuS 1.3.4.x,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. As always, enabling multi-factor authentication across both business and personal email accounts will successfully thwart most credential harvesting attacks like these.”

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. It seems phishing for users’ passwords to the sites used to buy and sell NFTs is the main method of compromise. Two-factor authentication for accounts managing NFTs is strongly recommended by marketplaces. He’s apparently not alone in this experience.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. In past campaigns, the APT group launched spear-phishing attacks against activists and journalists focusing on the Middle East, US organizations, and entities located in Israel , the U.K.,

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Advertising Internet Internet Hacking 81

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

People who responded to recruitment messages were invited to create an account at one of these sites, enter personal and bank account data (mules were told they would be processing payments for their employer’s “programmers” based in Eastern Europe) and then log in each day to check for new messages. indep: Yeah.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Iranian cyber conspirators conspired to commit computer intrusions targeting certain United States Government Agents, using malicious code, fictitious and imposter online personas and accounts, and information gathered about the victims to gain unauthorized access to protected computers and computer networks," reads a statement by the FBI.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2022

The reputation is well-deserved when you consider that we (the cybersecurity team) tell users to create a unique password for each account to increase security. In 2011, Forrester estimated that each call to the help desk for a password reset costs $70. Reduce password management pain and the risk of a breach.

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Passwords Password Management Authentication Social Engineering 71

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

From the first Roomba in 2002 to the first virtual assistant (Siri) in 2011, AI has slowly and steadily penetrated the consumer technology market, often with little comprehension from buyers that artificial intelligence is actually powering the functionality behind their favorite devices.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

SmokeLoader (aka Smoke) is a modular malware that has been known since 2011, distributed via phishing emails and drive-by downloads. The malware is known to be sold on online forums, and distributed via phishing emails. To get more information about a user’s Facebook account, Disbuk queries Facebook Graph API.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. in 2011 almost 10 years ago.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In particular, advertisers can display targeted offerings, and attackers can access accounts with various services, such as online banking. For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam. Attacks on personal data. Their enduring relevance is a surprise.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It could install a keylogging program, allowing the hacker to gain access to sensitive information like bank account details, passwords, and physical addresses as long as the victim typed that information into their computer at any point. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. Read How to Prevent Different Types of Malware.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While current employees are the biggest perpetrators of insider attacks, accounting for 30% of all incidents, former employees can also cause damage. In 2015, a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor pleaded guilty to stealing 730,000 account records from 2011 to 2014 and saving them on a personal server at home.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

In 2011, McAfee added to their database security lineup with the acquisition of Sentrigo, which approached database security with an emphasis on privileged user activity and access. McAfee is widely known for bringing the first antivirus software to market. Also Read: With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better?

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