Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2022

In April of 2013, CNN introduced the world to Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, by publishing an article titled, Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet. The post Shodan: Still the Scariest Search Engine on the Internet?

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

StrongPity APT group has been active since at least 2013, it’s responsible for cyberespionage campaigns against Turkish targets. The group used zero-day exploits, social engineering tricks, and Trojanized software installers to deliver malware to their victims.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 2, 2023

In fact, 10 years ago, the very first vendors that looked at these problems were born; they were later called CSPM for cloud security posture management ( Bard thinks that the term “CSPM” was born in 2013, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my former colleagues cooked it up a bit earlier). so 2013, yet so now! ]

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. By the time the Secret Service caught up with him in 2013, he’d made over $3 million selling fullz data to identity thieves and organized crime rings operating throughout the United States.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 2013: The End of the Silk Road Authorities were able to trace the pseudonym back to Ulbricht thanks to the efforts of an IRS investigator who was working with the DEA on the Silk Road case in mid-2013. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files.

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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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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To this day, the most infamous exploit kit is one called Angler, responsible for infecting over 90,000 websites between 2013 and 2016. Some use social engineering, deceiving people into clicking a link they shouldn’t, while others create malvertisements by planting a corrupted ad on a reputable website.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

Our policyholders often face big dollar challenges like ransomware and social engineering with very modest IT budgets,” Ms. According to Betty Shepherd, Divisional Senior Vice President, Great American Cyber Risk, EagleEye is a valuable loss prevention tool for insureds. Shepherd said. “We About SecurityScorecard.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2023

In fact, 10 years ago, the very first vendors that looked at these problems were born; they were later called CSPM for cloud security posture management ( Bard thinks that the term “CSPM” was born in 2013, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my former colleagues cooked it up a bit earlier). so 2013, yet so now! ]

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Cloud Migration Data breaches Social Engineering CISO 64

SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

The project is based on work Baines did for Europol’s Cyber Crimes Center, Project 2020, which made a similar series of predictions in 2013 targeting last year. AI could impact more than just social engineering. “The future we described turned out to be really quite accurate,” said Baines.

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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. It’s not small organisations falling foul of these problems , either.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s been a feature of the Xbox One gaming console since 2013, but doesn’t exit in PCs… yet. If it has, something untoward has happened and an error is raised. Windows 11 comes ready to embrace the impressively-named Pluton TPM architecture.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 Spear phishing is an advanced social engineering technique where a person at an organization, the mark, is targeted with trojaned messages or files that include accurate, if not personal, information regarding the target org.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Ransomware and BEC attacks pivot off social engineering that begins with criminals using search engines and haunting social media sites to gather intelligence about a specific employee at a targeted company. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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NopSec

OCTOBER 11, 2022

and affects Microsoft Exchange Server software versions between 2013 and 2019 with cumulative updates. CAPEC attack patterns are classified into 6 “Domains” and 9 “Mechanisms” of Attack. In this case, the CVE represents a severity score of 7.2

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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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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

Most big web platforms turned 2FA on around 2013 and the only people using it a decade later seem to be corporates and expert users. Once an attacker has these, organizations and individuals become vulnerable to an attempted bypass or social engineering attack at some point.

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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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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter released a statement indicating that this attack was the result of employees with internal access falling victim to social engineering that allowed the bad actors to take advantage of their insider privilege. The affected accounts included Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, and Uber.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. This article focuses on the top five attack vectors organizations should look out for and defend against in 2022. He currently also works with Bora.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 A fresh start in March 2013. BackTrack Linux became Kali Linux in March 2013. Moto) first saw the light of day at Black Hat Europe 2013 and was based on Debian 7. was first released. Today we want to celebrate Kali’s 10th anniversary! Time has flown.

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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.

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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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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. Examples of Notable RDP Attacks. Calling into Robinhood.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

HydraPOS has been spotted in attacks that employed social engineering techniques. Discovered for the first time in Mexico back in 2013, the malware keeps evolving via new versions and has been seen targeting enterprises, such as ATM manufacturers, in Brazil among other places.

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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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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

CryptoLocker, in 2013, pioneered the use of strong encryption algorithms. Provide cybersecurity awareness training to all personnel, enabling them to identify social engineering attacks and risky behavior. The 2012 Reveton ransomware famously used lock screen tactics claiming the FBI locked the computer for illegal activity.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

CryptoLocker (one of the most widely-known variants that was active from 2013 to 2014) demanded $300.00. Social engineering: Social engineering testing is an effective tool to complement user awareness by exposing human flaws in processes that can subsequently be addressed.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments.

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