Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. This script shows a social engineering message, such as a Flash update popup or a DNS error, and attempts to trick the victim into downloading a malicious file deploy a Cobalt Strike loader.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How Phishing Works: Social Engineering The term “phishing” is broadly defined as sending an email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. All of them rely on social engineering, a term that describes methods of deception used to coerce a victim into giving up valuable information.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Formerly on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Kevin Mitnick is a crucial figure in the history of information security, including approaches to social engineering and penetration testing. Tabriz has led Google Chrome’s security since 2013, which extends to managing Product, Engineering, and UX today.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

In November 2021, an unauthorized third party called a Robinhood customer support employee and, through social engineering , gained access to the company’s customer support systems. Other cybersecurity tools offered include DNS filtering, disk encryption , backups , and email security for Microsoft-oriented infrastructure.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on macOS and Windows operating systems. We recently identified additional malicious activities, conducted by Tomiris operators since at least October 2021, against government, telecoms and engineering organizations in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Russia. Final thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services. According to MITRE: “APT33 is a suspected Iranian threat group that has carried out operations since at least 2013. CopyKittens.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Our telemetry revealed that the threat group’s latest endeavors are focused on going after entities within one country – Tunisia.

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