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Teenager Hacks Uber by Social Engineering an Employee

SecureWorld News

According to this cyber wonderkid, they used social engineering to pull off the hack. This incident is yet another example of how easy it is for malicious threat actors to use social engineering to gain access to an organization's internal systems. They are openly taunting and mocking @Uber. September 16, 2022.

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Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT targeted 100+ organizations with a spear-phishing campaign using RDP files

Security Affairs

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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$43 billion stolen through Business Email Compromise since 2016, reports FBI

The State of Security

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

Krebs on Security

. “For decades, West African scammers, primarily located in Nigeria, have perfected the use of social engineering in cybercrime activity.” Indeed, perhaps this enterprising Nigerian scammer is just keeping up with current trends.

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Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

Schneier on Security

” was an awareness campaign from 2016, by the Department of Homeland Security—this was before CISA—and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Even if we do this all well and correctly, we can’t make people immune to social engineering. I doubt they tested the idea on actual users. “ Stop.

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New Charges Derail COVID Release for Hacker Who Aided ISIS

Krebs on Security

In January 2016, Ferizi pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group and to unauthorized access. 2015 by criminals who social engineered PayPal employees over the phone into changing my password and bypassing multi-factor authentication. The Pentagon Crew forum founded by Ferizi.

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Profiling Russia’s U.S Election Interference 2016 – An OSINT Analysis

Security Boulevard

Election 2016 campaign in terms of malicious activity and offer practical and relevant including actionable threat intelligence on their whereabouts. Elections 2016 campaign: linuxkrnl[.]net. Elections 2016 campaign: linuxkrnl[.]net. S Elections 2016 campaign: julienobruno@hotmail[.]com. accounts-qooqle[.]com. akamainet[.]net.