SecureList

MAY 25, 2022

” Social engineering became an overwhelming problem this past year, highlighting the surge in repeated cybercrime tactics — 1. However, that same year the rise of hacktivism (particularly leaks) accounted for many attacks. “Actor Motives: Financial (89%), Espionage (11%).”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1. Bantick “As the MOVEit hack has proved, the bad actors are always looking for new ways to attack with tactics ranging from third party supplier attacks to more sophisticated social engineering and phishing attack techniques.

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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 Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed the APT group making more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and then attack 241 of those accounts.

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Media Social Engineering Phishing Advertising 68

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Chafer APT launched spear-phishing attacks, the messages were used to deliver multiple backdoors that allowed them to gain a foothold, elevate their privileges, conduct internal reconnaissance, and establish persistence in the victim environment. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. Source: @0x21SAFE on Twitter). The post Careful!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Human identities are being phished…. This explains the rise in phishing attacks targeting users. According to Help Net Security , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) detected 260,642 phishing attacks in July 2021. The issue is that users can’t always spot a phishing attempt. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Lazarus APT is linked to North Korea, the activity of the Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. Attackers sent to the victims weaponized spear-phishing messages using a malicious attachment. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it. hackers can access them.

Phishing 85

Phishing Accountability Banking Social Engineering 85

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The main risks enumerated in the report are: Creating malicious DNS records; Obtaining SSL certificates; Transparent Proxying for traffic interception; To prevent phishing attacks, NCSC recommends using unique, strong passwords, and enabling multi-factor authentication when the option is available. ” continues the report.

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DNS Social Engineering Accountability Advertising 76

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Emotet is back, its operators leverage a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware, they are hijacking legitimate email conversations. The operators are hijacking legitimate email threads as part of a social engineering attack. ” reads the report. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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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. When we started the list around Christmas of 2015, it was just myself and one FBI agent.

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Scams Accountability Media Banking 191

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Loki Bot operators employ various social engineering technique to trick victims into opening weaponized attachments that would deploy the Loki Bot stealer. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Every year we observe an increase in spam attacks on the corporate sector.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

There was a time when stolen gaming accounts were almost treated as a fact of life. Gaming accounts had an essence of innate disposability to them, even if this wasn’t the case (how disposable is that gamertag used to access hundreds of dollars worth of gaming content)? Customer support: compromised accounts all the way down.

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Accountability Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 70

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In other systems, other types of scripts were found, namely webshells, and also SMTP senders to leverage social engineering campaigns (Figure 6). Figure 6: SMTP senders used by criminals to leverage social engineering campaigns. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

The malicious code users overlay attacks to steal sensitive and financial data from the victim, including credit card numbers, banking credentials and passwords for bank accounts. Cerberus malware leverages social engineering to trick victims into installing it on victims’ devices. ” continues the report.

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Banking Malware Advertising Social Engineering 87

Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

The attack started on the night of April 10, threat actors launched a spear phishing campaign from an e-mail address that pretended to be sent from an employee of the Ministry of Defense. Security Center has confirmed it is a typical social engineering attack using spoofed email accounts, it also attributed the attack to a foreign government.

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Cyber Attacks Media Social Engineering Advertising 86

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

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. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

This global initiative will expose employees to short but, impactful video-based lessons produced by security awareness firm AwareGO on topics such as phishing, data leaks, Microsoft Office security and Zoom bombing. Then Betov’s team tests workers with phishing simulations and assessment questions to see if the lessons are retained.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security experts at Trustwave have released Social Mapper, a new open-source tool that allows finding a person of interest across social media platform using facial recognition technology. Experts from Trustwave warn of potential abuses of Social Mapper that are limited “only by your imagination.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Media Penetration Testing Social Engineering Phishing 48

SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

This global initiative will expose employees to short but, impactful video-based lessons produced by security awareness firm AwareGO on topics such as phishing, data leaks, Microsoft Office security and Zoom bombing. Then Betov’s team tests workers with phishing simulations and assessment questions to see if the lessons are retained.

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Manufacturing Security Awareness Phishing Passwords 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“The bad actor may have gained access via a phishing attack targeting your employees—or through a vulnerable third-party vendor attached to your company’s server.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. E-skimming occurs when cyber criminals inject malicious code onto a website.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Attacks on bank customers: The decline of Android Trojans and the triumph of phishing. At present, only three criminal groups— Buhtrap2 , RTM , and Toplel —steal money from the accounts of legal entities in Russia. Using web phishing, criminals have managed to steal $3.7 They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites.

Cyber Attacks 81

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

After that, the victim was contacted by another person — “a representative of a credit and financial organization” — who confirmed his willingness to transfer compensation to the pensioner’s account or to transfer the money in cash. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The victims are targeted with spear-phishing emails that trick them into mounting a malicious ISO file and double-clicking an LNK, which starts the infection chain. However, we also discovered a new malicious implant that has been used by this actor to deploy SodaMaster since 2015: we named this module HUI loader.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Today, weaponized Microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to deliver malware, because they also rely on simple social engineering tricks to lure users to enable them. . Other interesting function is “j2aYhH”: Figure 8 – Accounts and emails stealing. Technical analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Recent UEFI attacks include a 2015 attack on a Ukrainian power grid and a 2018 attack where threat actors used a UEFI rootkit to drop additional malware in an extended episode. While phishing is one of the oldest TTPs in the hacker playbook, it still works – and, thanks to social engineering , continues to evolve.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

We also reported on ToddyCat Sylo, where the group introduced additional collection and exfiltration tools and used previously compromised user accounts with high privileges for lateral movement. This document is downloaded via another spear-phishing document that serves as a remote template.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. It could install a keylogging program, allowing the hacker to gain access to sensitive information like bank account details, passwords, and physical addresses as long as the victim typed that information into their computer at any point.

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Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 140

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

All of these documents were blank, suggesting the existence of precursor documents – possibly delivered by means of spear-phishing or a previous infection – that trigger the download of the RTF files. The Trojan may also use social engineering to convince victims to download a smartphone app.

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Ransomware Malware Banking Encryption 138

Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

The database has far reaching impacts for Indian citizens as they can use the data found in the database to carry out many activities including opening bank accounts, purchasing items, signing up for utility services, and receiving aid or assistance financially. billion registered Indian citizens.

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