Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect.

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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.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

List of in-the-wild 0-days caught and reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years Social activity What never ceases to impress us is how much effort Lazarus APT puts into their social engineering campaigns. What makes Lazarus’s attacks particularly dangerous is their frequent use of zero-day exploits.

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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 has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . The link points to a malicious phishing website.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. Near the holiday season of 2013, hackers exposed the credit and debit card information of over 110 million Target customers. Here are three of the worst data breaches that could have been avoided: Yahoo.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. The breach is rightly attracting attention of regulators in Europe and the United States. Satya Gupta, CTO and Co-founder, Virsec: Gupta.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

Criminals got clever with social engineering by masquerading the ransomware as a law enforcement agency (perhaps the FBI) and making accusations that illegal files are on the system. However, this has now evolved to locking entire organizations down. It seems 2014 is when ransomware took great strides forward.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

in 2013 suffering 3 billion accounts becoming exposed to attackers, or LinkedIn discovering 117 million passwords up for sale in 2016, this can have a major impact on the users. Social engineers will trick you however they can. Other phishing sites capture your 2FA code as you type it in.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Everyone, by now, ought to be cognizant of the fact that blithely sharing details about one’s preferences and contacts plays directly into the hands of criminal operatives: personal details fuel targeted phishing campaigns. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. That shortfall can be seen in windfall of criminal profits.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This approach can reduce the risk of account takeover through password theft or social engineering attacks while making the login process faster and more user-friendly. They can be forgotten, phished, hacked, or not strong enough, leading to compromised accounts, data breaches, and related costs. Passwordless at last.

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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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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Social Engineering Techniques Social engineering is different—it’s about manipulating people instead of hacking technology. Here are some common social engineering techniques: Phishing: Sending fake emails that look real to trick users into clicking on bad links or sharing sensitive info.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ? According to MITRE: “APT33 is a suspected Iranian threat group that has carried out operations since at least 2013. MuddyWater. CopyKittens. Jordan, and Germany.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 At a overview level, many large data breaches occur through an attack called spear phishing. That information would be interactions with law enforcement, recreational drug use, and possibly fingerprints. How Website Security Breaches Occur.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Your employee’s password to Office 365 might get cracked or stolen during a phishing attack. Even a trained employee can overwrite important files or fall for a phishing attack. To ensure that your data is safe, get a backup for Office 365. Here are some of the best security training providers you can choose from.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

Cambridge Analytica is a British political consulting firm started in 2013 that set out to use technology including data mining and analysis during electoral processes. One positive bit of information about the Exactis breach was that it didn’t include payment card information or other details such as social security numbers.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Ransomware. Less common types.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The man created the malicious code, a remote access trojan (RAT), when he was 15 years old, and maintained its infrastructure from 2013 to 2019. In November 2019, Europol announced to have dismantled the global organized cybercrime ring behind the Imminent Monitor RAT.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Ransomware. Less Common Types of Malware.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We found overlaps in the infrastructure used by a tunneling tool used by the actor and several possible phishing websites set up within the above time frame. The attack targets victims with spear-phishing emails containing malicious OOXML files. Final thoughts.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Mitnick was known for his social engineering skills, which he used to trick employees into divulging sensitive information or passwords. The group also engaged in acts of civil disobedience, and was known for its use of social media and online forums to organize and communicate with members.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

That is why hackers use social engineering tricks to pressure victims into paying a ransom. This type of ransomware reached its peak popularity in the years 2013-2018. Phishing Phishing is a fraudulent practice that tricks people into opening malicious emails and clicking on fake links that infect your computer with ransomware.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The attack vectors have broadened past spear phishing and vulnerable software. Compromised USB drives are a common attack vector, and one that requires vigilance in order to avoid a supply chain attack or an attack that exploits social engineering tactics.

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SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

However, the last operations conducted by this threat actor were observed in 2013. Most of the attacks start with a spear-phishing email containing a Microsoft Word document or a ZIP archive with an LNK file inside. Since then, no information about Careto’s activity has been published.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. The CryptoLocker Trojan , launched in 2013, was one of the first major instances of ransomware being used on a large scale, hitting about 250,000 victims and extorting around $27 million in Bitcoin. One of the first instances was the Love Letter virus of 2000.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2024

APT42 focuses on highly targeted spear-phishing and social engineering techniques, its operations broadly fall into three categories, credential harvesting, surveillance operations, and malware deployment. APT42 uses social engineering tactics to trick targets into setting up video meetings, which then lead to phishing pages.

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