2012 Cybercrime Social Engineering 
SecureWorld News
JUNE 5, 2023
Specifically, the advisory highlights the utilization of social engineering techniques by DPRK state-sponsored cyber actors, with a focus on their hacking activities targeting think tanks, academia, and media organizations worldwide. At the forefront of these cyber threats is a group known as Kimusky.
Herjavec Group
AUGUST 26, 2021
We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.
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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 26, 2020
For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 21, 2020
FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime. None of these early threats went pro. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The proof is the leverage of the current physical threat, the CoronaVirus (COVID-19), as a social engineering trick to infect the cyber world. It is not new for cyber-crooks to exploit social phenomena to spread malware in order to maximize the impact and dissemination of a malicious campaign. Figure 9: C2 connection.
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. The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. Traditionally, these attacks put an emphasis on social engineering, finding innovative new ways to defraud end-users.
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. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.
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