SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. Traditionally, these attacks put an emphasis on social engineering, finding innovative new ways to defraud end-users. election process. aerospace and satellite sectors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

The first attempt was to leverage knowledge questions to complement insecure passwords, only to find out soon enough that people were using information that was easy to be compromised by simple social engineering tactics. SIM swapping attacks were the key reason that back in 2011, NIST deprecated SMS-based OTP authentication.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The deep web is also made up of content that is not indexed by search engines and requires a login to access. You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Tropic Trooper (aka KeyBoy and Pirate Panda) is an APT group operating since 2011. In addition, this year’s updated version of the GREASE malware creates backdoor accounts to use RDP connections under the names “Guest” and “IIS_USER”, respectively.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

It looks like similar techniques were used on Sir Grayson Perry’s stage show , where information was used to identify members of the audience and query details from their social media accounts live on stage. These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. This makes information gathering very hard.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The first two samples had 2010/2011 as the compilation date, as shown on the graph below. With the patch in place, the malware collects the data from TRACK2, such as the account number and expiration date, in addition to other cardholder information needed to perform fraudulent transactions. Initial infection vector.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Such was related to a worldwide malware operation known as NullMixer, a controversial and widespread malware delivery maneuver based on SEO poisoning and social engineering technique to lure tech-savvy users, including IT personnel.

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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.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. In many ways, it’s the perfect crime for anyone indulging in social engineering. Finally, Equifax list some of the methods you can deploy to keep your social media identity secure.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

The term was first used by Brian Krebs in 2011 after a proof of concept was conducted at DEF CON by Wall of Sheep. There are crawlers that can search your phone for personally identifiable information (PII), account credentials, banking-related or credit card data in seconds. However, the chances of that happening are rather slim.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. 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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2024

Google announced that it disrupted a hacking campaign carried out by Iran-linked group APT42 (Calanque, UNC788 ) that targeted the personal email accounts of individuals associated with the US elections. Google announced to have detected and blocked numerous attempts to log in to the personal email accounts of targeted individuals.

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