Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2022

And the tactics look strikingly similar to 2017’s NotPetya hack by the Russian GRU. Ukraine is again under malware attack. The post ‘Russian’ Wiper Malware: ‘Prelude to war’ in Ukraine appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Some nationally recognised experts and the largest trusted cyber organisations go so far as to say that MFA prevents 99% of all hacking! Hacking will continue nearly unabated and losses will continue to pile up as the truth becomes self-evident. government has been telling people not to use easily phishable MFA at least since 2017.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

EternalBlue is a Windows exploit created by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and used in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. The NSA has declined to speak in detail about the hack or EternalBlue. Here is how the NSA-developed cyber monster works, and how you should defend against it. What is the EternalBlue vulnerability?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Street @jaysonstreet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests. The phishing messages used a classic social engineering technique in the attempt to trick victims into providing their information to avoid the permanent suspension of their email accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The APT group has been active since at least 2017, its campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. The APT primarily targets NATO countries, but experts also observed campaigns targeting the Baltics, Nordics, and Eastern Europe regions, including Ukraine.

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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. million court settlement reached in 2017. Losses from this incident totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ursnif). Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT42). ” reads the report published by Mandiant. ” the researchers conclude.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Since 2017, host Jack Rhysider has investigated some of the most noteworthy stories related to the darkside of the internet, specifically hacking, data breaches, and cybercrime. Through interviews and research, Ran connects the dots between the early days of cybercrime and today’s stories of data hacks and breaches.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The final payload is the FormBook information-stealing Trojan, a malware that was first spotted by researchers at FireEye in October 2017. Researchers explained that FormBook is easy to use, it is offered for sale in the criminal underground since July 2017, it was offered for $29 a week up to a $299 full-package “pro” deal.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

APT-C-23 group is using Android spyware since at least 2017, most of the targets were in the Palestinian Territories. The malicious apps use social engineering to ask the user to grant advanced permissions. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Cyclone). ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Group-IB has estimated that crypto exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks between 2017 and 2018. According to Group-IB experts, at least 14 crypto exchanges were hacked. Some of the exchanges went bankrupt after the hacks, i.e. Bitcurex, YouBit, Bitgrail. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation into the case, codenamed Cepheus, in 2017 after it received information about a “suspicious RAT” from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks and the U.S. The Imminent Monitor RAT is a hacking tool that allows threat actors to remotely control the victim’s computers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability. Such kind of info could be used by hackers in social engineering attack against T-Mobile’s customer support employees with the intent of stealing the victim’s phone number. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Wannacry).

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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, details of Alexsey Belan’s Russian-backed escapades came to light in March 2017 when the FBI indicted Belan and three co-conspirators in connection with hacking Yahoo to pilfer more than 500 million email addresses and gain deep access to more than 30 million Yahoo accounts. presidential elections.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” According to Microsoft, ransomware attacks continue to target enterprise environments through social engineering, for this reason, the adoption of best practices is the best way to protect them. ” continues Microsoft. . Disable your Remote Desktop feature whenever possible. • Use two factor authentication. •

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When those users look up their tech troubles online, they’ll see results that display the scammers’ phone number, fooling them into calling what they think is a legitimate helpline, only to be led through a series of social engineering tricks to eventually hand over their money.

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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. From September 2015 to June 2017, Olorunyomi and an accomplice engaged in a romance fraud scheme that resulted in losses of more than $1 million. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And, as you'll hear, in some cases, they'll even fly you around the world to learn how to hack. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. It's basically hacking for money, you find a vulnerability, and if the company validates it, they give you a bounty. I hope you'll stick around.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why Tennisha Martin founded Black Girls Hack , an organization designed to help the next generation receive the skills and experience they need to land jobs in the C-suites, and perhaps begin to address the acute shortage of infosec professionals with qualified people of color. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why Tennisha Martin founded Black Girls Hack , an organization designed to help the next generation receive the skills and experience they need to land jobs in the C-suites, and perhaps begin to address the acute shortage of infosec professionals with qualified people of color. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 23, 2022

To get to their targets, the attackers used social engineering via LinkedIn “hiding behind the ruse of attractive, but bogus, job offers,” ESET said, adding that it was likely part of the Lazarus campaign for Mac and is similar to research done by ESET in May. Lazarus had made a name for itself with cyber-espionage.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

This amazing figure is the result of 2,308 publicly disclosed data breaches, anyway, it represents a drop from 6 billion data records exposed in 2,439 breaches reported for the first half of 2017. After the wild ride of 2017, we became accustomed to seeing a lot of breaches, exposing extraordinary amounts of information. The post 2.6

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

This was how the Sony Pictures ransomware hack also took place in late 2014 and since. The SolarWinds software that is used by thousands of federal government agencies and corporations in the US and aboard was hacked. Early this year, we leant about a hack into a municipal water filtration system in Florida.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Since at least 2017, the prolific gang compromised at least 500,000 government and private sector companies in more than 150 countries. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of email phishing attack that relies on social engineering. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Falcon). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2018

In another campaign, hackers targeted hundreds of Google and Yahoo accounts, “successfully bypassing common forms of two-factor authentication” Amnesty International reported widespread phishing of Google and Yahoo users throughout 2017 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

From that story: “The reasoning behind this strategy is as simple as it is alluring: What’s not put online can’t be hacked. But increasingly, adherents to this mantra are finding out the hard way that if you don’t plant your flag online, fraudsters and identity thieves may do it for you.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

The threat actors don’t have advanced skills, their attack vector is spear phishing messages and they have been quite successful in using social engineering to lure victims into opening the email and downloading and executing the malicious codes. ” Reads the analysis published by ESET. have been active even longer.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The social engineering campaigns would have aimed to secure initial network access and extract sensitive information. Return of the Hack: Ideological Wartime Attacks Before 2017, the ideologically motivated “Anonymous” collective gained global notoriety, but hacktivism has been in global decline since Anonymous activity dwindled.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. The hacking risk isn’t just a question of having more devices so much as having a higher concentration of devices. AI and Machine Learning Hacking.

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