Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Image — courtesy of Social-Engineer. This year’s DEF CON ® 2020 Social Engineering Capture the Flag for Kids (SECTF4Kids) was a landmark event. Every year, since 2011 we’ve held an SECTF4Kids at DEF CON®. We then bring all these skills together and teach the kids how to apply them to social engineering.

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Social Engineering Engineering Education Internet 75

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 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. . As part of the recently observed campaign, the state-sponsored hackers used three different spear-phishing methods: Ending an email message leveraging social engineering methods.

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Media Social Engineering Phishing Advertising 71

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

From untargeted to very targeted… During the Japan tsunami and earthquake of 2011, a huge volume of scam attacks sank their claws into the disaster. Phishing, social engineering, blackmail, fraud: all of these things and more could be in the running. The pilfered details could be used for all manner of scam attempts.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In many ways, it’s the perfect crime for anyone indulging in social engineering. In the aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake / Tsunami in 2011, identity assistance was in so much disarray generally that most ID scams we saw focused on pretending to be charities as opposed to victims.

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Identity Theft Social Engineering Accountability Scams 81

Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. He has been a speaker on the infosec circuit and was one of the keynotes at the inaugural 44CON London security event in 2011. The opportunity to appear on TV is either appealing, a curiosity, or a complete no no. A grand day out We really enjoyed working with Alexis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation.

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Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

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. Instead, hackers know that our mobile devices store a lot of PII, which can be sold on the dark web for profit or re-used in social engineering campaigns. However, the chances of that happening are rather slim.

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Mobile Banking Malware Spyware 98

NopSec

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I remember at the beginning of my career when I started doing penetration testing engagements, obtaining and exploiting targets using the so-called social engineering techniques was considered cheating. Nowadays, social engineering techniques are widely used in targeted attacks in the wild. since 2008.

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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. It is highly targeted and is usually delivered through social engineering, e.g., a target business may receive a call from a “technician” who insists that the company needs to update its PoS software. Initial infection vector.

Malware 96

Malware Banking Software Encryption 96

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Charming Kitten group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. The cyber spies used social media to gather information on the targets and as a vector for social engineering attacks.

Social Engineering 72

Social Engineering Engineering Media Cyber Attacks 72

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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Authentication Social Engineering Mobile Digital transformation 71

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.

Malware 83

Malware Social Engineering Encryption Marketing 83

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.

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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. This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012. Trends of the year.

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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 132

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2022

In 2011, Forrester estimated that each call to the help desk for a password reset costs $70. We are committed to strong security at the access point and if help desk intervention is required, we require complexity and tell Operations to budget for it.

Passwords 71

Passwords Password Management Authentication Social Engineering 71

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ayesha fled Libya shortly after the Battle of Tripoli back in 2011. The scammers can’t even get this right; Aisha has had four children , but two of them were killed during the fighting in 2011. She eventually moved from Algeria to Oman, where she claims political asylum to this day.

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Identity Theft Scams Banking Government 94

Doctor Chaos

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2011 cyberactivists attacked infrastructure in multiple Middle Eastern countries to push for freedom of speech and freedom from oppression. This comes closer to reality than most people realize. In 2008 a group of vigilante hackers attacked the Church of Scientology to disrupt (what they believed to be) an evil organization.

Social Engineering 130

Social Engineering Hacking Banking Engineering 130

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011. On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced that a North Korean-related threat actor had targeted security researchers.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 138

Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

It was not until May 2011 that the next major version of BackTrack got released, which also happens to be the last, BackTrack 5. Here is a collection: 2011-05-05: BackTrack 5 - Penetration Testing Distribution 2013-01-19: BackTrack Reborn - Kali Linux Teaser 2015-07-01: Kali 2.0 Things were not as stable as when it was first released.

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InfoSec Penetration Testing Architecture Software 52

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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Social Engineering Government DDOS Engineering 85

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The ZeroAccess botnet, discovered in 2011, hit systems hard with fraudulent advertising clicks and Bitcoin mining malware, infecting at least 9 million computers worldwide. The rootkit itself was spread through a number of infection vectors, most notably social engineering and exploit packs like Blackhole.

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Firmware Malware Antivirus Firewall 109

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list.

Malware 138

Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 138

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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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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