Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Confirmed thefts attributed to the group include the 2016 hacking of the SWIFT payment system for Bangladesh Bank, which netted thieves $81 million; $6.1 The group is thought to be responsible for the attempted theft of approximately $1.2 billion, although it’s unclear how much of that was actually stolen.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

As AI technology advances, attackers are shifting their focus from technical exploits to human emotions using deeply personal and well-orchestrated social engineering tactics. He holds a 2015 – 2016 Masters Degree in Security Technologies (MSST) @ Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

Over US $43 billion has been lost through Business Email Compromise attacks since 2016, according to data released this week by the FBI. The post $43 billion stolen through Business Email Compromise since 2016, reports FBI appeared first on The State of Security.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

According to DoJ, from at least in or about 2016 through or about April 2021, Nasab and other co-conspirators carried out a coordinated multi-year campaign to breach computers worldwide. These social engineering contacts were another means the conspiracy used to deploy malware onto victim computers and compromise those devices and accounts.”

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

It was responsible for the 2014 attack against Sony Pictures, the 2016 cyber heist of funds belonging to the central bank of Bangladesh, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware worm. When it comes to threat actors working for the North Korean government, most people have heard of the Lazarus group (APT38).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Security Through Education

MAY 3, 2023

The experts at Social-Engineer can help Don’t know where to start? The experts at Social-Engineer, LLC can help you understand where your security may be falling short and support you on your journey to change your resistance. Verkuil, B., & Thayer, J. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 41, 22-34. Carleton, R.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

Social engineering. This breach was due to old systems Starwood used before being acquired by Marriott in 2016. After speaking with the anonymous group, DataBreaches reached out to Marriott's CISO, Arno Van Der Walt, who agreed to speak with their counsel. The cause of the breach?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then. Another attack scenario sees hackers targeting the administrators of the platform with social engineering attacks in an attempt to obtain his credentials and use them to plant the malicious code in the e-store.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Octo2 is linked to the Exobot malware, first identified in 2016, which also gave rise to another variant called Coper in 2021. ThreatFabric researchers discovered a new version of the Android banking trojan Octo, called Octo2, that supports more advanced remote action capabilities needed for Device Takeover attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Most of the malspam campaigns leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. Zloader has been active at least since 2016, it borrows some functions from the notorious Zeus 2.0.8.9 banking Trojan and was used to spread Zeus-like banking trojan (i.e.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Midnight Blizzard group along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. The emails were highly targeted, using social engineering lures relating to Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the concept of Zero Trust.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection. In our estimation, the group operates dozens of researchers and intelligence personnel to maintain the campaign globally.”

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. This not only serves as a basis for social engineering attacks, but can lead to the exposure of additional resources. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

These and other cybercrime vendors are infecting corporate networks with malware by hijacking email threads, using fake customer response forms and social engineering employees with a fake call center known as BazarCall, which is tracked as Hive0105. ” reads the post published by IBM X-Force.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. Between early 2015 and September 2016, Uzuh and an accomplice engaged in BEC fraud targeting over 100 businesses in a single.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On Friday, Starwood Properties, which merged with Marriott in 2016, disclosed as many as 500 million people who made reservations at their hotels may have had their personal information accessed in a breach that lasted as long as four years. Satya Gupta, CTO and Co-founder, Virsec: Gupta.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Most of the phishing attacks leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. Zloader has been active at least since 2016, it borrows some functions from the notorious Zeus 2.0.8.9 banking Trojan and was used to spread Zeus-like banking trojan (i.e.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2023

The top security threat cited by respondents was software vulnerabilities and/or Zero-Days (53%), followed by phishing/social engineering threats (52%) and attacks targeting the supply chain (49%).

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Many of the attack tactics involved elements of social engineering–persuasion tactics that take advantage of human psychology to trick victims into taking actions that have aided the adversaries. They explain the mechanics of attacks against (mostly) U.S. government.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

” A similar attack technique has been already observed in the wild, in September 2016 the Police in the Australian State of Victoria issued a warning to the local population of malware-laden USB drives left in letterboxes. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. The attackers use previously compromised Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses to create new domains that appear as technical support entities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

In fact, in March 2016, I wrote a piece in CNN calling for urgent action and offering solutions. Some of the data that is stolen feeds social engineering attacks, where hackers use the stolen data to attack people and steal even more. I presented it at Blackhat in 2016 and 2017. This creates a cycle of cyber breaches.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Hackers aren’t only coders — they’re also social engineers. One major virus — the WannaCry ransomware — nearly shut down the British health care system in 2016. In 2016, the professional services industry in the United States had a value of $1,100 billion. Employee Training on Phishing and Digital Security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

As a portion of data belongs to the armed forces personnel and some government employees holding bureaucrat status- an enormous threat to national security as such, info is often used to launch phishing or other forms of social engineering attacks. Voter ID details weren’t leaked in the cyber-attack.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. Whether spread by malvertising or email spam, the end result was the same.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

When we had our first conference in May 2016, there were about 20 people attending to try to figure out how to tackle all of the individual pieces of this type of fraud. Something like 63 percent of fraud losses reported to the FBI are related to it. When we started the list around Christmas of 2015, it was just myself and one FBI agent.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, 555,000 people had their details leaked in 2016 when Red Cross Australia blood donor information was accessed by someone without permission. Phishing, social engineering, blackmail, fraud: all of these things and more could be in the running. Under attack (again).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This helps to explain the rise of social engineering attacks , especially with phishing. Before that, he founded AppNeta (acquired by SolarWinds in 2016) and was a founding engineer at eJonesPulse. The same notion applies for third parties, like contractors and business partners.”. Kubernetes Security and Observability.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

Soufiane el Habti ( @wld_basha on Twitter), another bug bounty hunter, hopped on the original tweet thread, saying he raised the same issue to Uber last year but the triage team “closed it as informative” Shiva Maharaj ( @ShivaSMaharaj on Twitter) claimed that he reported this bug in 2015/2016, but said “they don’t care.”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then. Another attack scenario sees hackers targeting the administrators of the platform with social engineering attacks in an attempt to obtain his credentials and use them to plant the malicious code in the e-store.

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