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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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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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 8, 2022

Since 2017, if you’ve invited anyone to a Slack workspace, your password has leaked. How could this have happened? The post Slack App Leaked Hashed User Passwords for 5 YEARS appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

The group uses spear phishing emails and social engineering lures as a primary tactic. The attachments exploit CVE-2017-0199, a Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability in Windows. Once a victim opens the delivered malicious Word document, it will exploit CVE-2017-0199. Figure 7 – Link analysis for 109[.]200[.]159[.]59.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Criminals may utilize all sorts of social engineering approaches, as well as technical exploits, in order to deliver their ransomware into their intended targets. This article is an updated version of a piece that I originally wrote in 2017, but which remains as true now as it was then.).

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2022

which was a T-Mobile store, in Los Angeles in January 2017. Very often he would socially engineer employees at the IT help desk to get their credentials. Court documents show that Khudaverdyan and another business partner owned a store called Top Tier Solutions Inc., How was he unlocking these phones?

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BH Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

A social engineer by profession, she consults with organisations who, essentially, ask her to try and ‘break in’ to places that should be off limits – but often aren’t. Her recently published book, ‘People Hacker’, lifts the lid on some of the social engineering tricks she employs to gain access to places she shouldn’t be able to go.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 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 2016, for instance.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Then, we’ll go over the basic, foundational techniques most scammers find themselves using, such as social engineering and phishing. Social Tactics.

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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. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start.

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

That’s why email-validation services are an attractive target for cybercriminals looking for a fresh batch of email addresses for their next wave of social engineering attacks. The leaked data contained no highly sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers or Social Security numbers.

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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.

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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. In most cases, cybercriminals, while attacking cryptocurrency exchanges, use traditional tools and methods, such as spear phishing, social engineering, distribution of malware, and website defacement.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. A few password resets later, and one account used for spam is now multiple accounts spamming, sending infections, social engineering, the works. Maybe the uptake is still slow, and Google has decided enough is enough.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In this release, the kernel has been updated to 4.13.10 and it includes some notable improvements: CIFS now uses SMB 3.0 Take a look at the Kali Changelog to see what else has been updated in this release, or read on to see what else is new. de Lange Executive Assistant at Google. de Lange Executive Assistant at Google.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. The wire transfers listed range from $44,900 to $230,400 across most of 2017 to 2018. There’s folks looking after finances, and testing malware against CAV services.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2021

A federal grand jury has just charged a former intelligence analyst with stealing confidential files from 2004 to 2017. What about social engineers? If you’re worried about the risk of insider threats, you’re not alone. It can affect anyone, even the FBI. This makes sense. How many physical security experts do people know?

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Charity Fraud Scam Vectors and Social Engineering Techniques. Some of these include phishing, vishing , social media, and crowdfunding platforms. Back in 2017, there was a viral story about a homeless veteran who gave all his money to a woman on the side of the road with no gas. Crowdfunding Platforms.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. Fast forward to 2017. Whoever was behind NotPetya, notably, leveraged the stolen NSA tools, to completely destroy global shipping company Maersk’s computer network in 2017.

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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. The investigation continues as some of the gang members remain at large.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2023

There are other differences, such as the date of the first release (2022 vs. 2017), but if you miss those details it’s easy to fall into the trap, especially when you lack time to fully vet the source. In addition, the number of downloads or stars could be artificially increased to gain even more credibility.

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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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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Online fraud and phishing company Bolster recently reported that criminals are starting to stand up fraudulent, imitation NFT websites that impersonate actual digital marketplaces such as Opensea and Rarible, then are using fake tweets and other social engineering tactics to lure victims to these phishing pages.

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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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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. His style of storytelling is captivating and easy to follow for technical and non-technical listeners alike.

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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.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 In December 2017, Group-IB published the first report on this group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

Besides being the Egyptian God associated with mummification and afterlife, Anubis is also an Android banking malware that has caused quite some trouble for over 300 financial institutions worldwide since 2017. Effectively, Anubis can be considered one of the most used Android banking Trojans since late 2017.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Europol correctly describes the primary method of SIM-swapping when they say in the press release above, "This is typically achieved by the criminals exploiting phone service providers to do the swap on their behalf, either via a corrupt insider or using social engineering techniques.". How do Phone Company Insiders enable these scams?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

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. It also puts a price on the data—which creates a market for it. This creates a cycle of cyber breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

About the MassCyberCenter at the MassTech Collaborative: The MassCyberCenter was launched in September 2017 to enhance opportunities for the Massachusetts cybersecurity ecosystem and strengthen the resiliency of the Commonwealth’s public and private communities.

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