CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? Social engineering schemes range from covert to obvious. OnePercent Group attacks.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. An incident investigation conducted by Kaspersky ICS CERT at one of the attacked enterprises revealed that they exploited a vulnerability in FortiGate VPN servers (CVE-2018-13379).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Other cybercrimes that specifically target accounts are spear phishing, social engineering attacks, and password sprays —basic password attack tactics that nation-states carry out against target companies and governments. For example, from January to December 2021, Microsoft detected a jaw-dropping 25.6

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

In a typical attack, boobytrapped emails would be sent to targeted companies posing as legitimate communications through cunning use of social engineering. Earlier this year, another member of FIN7 was sentenced to 10 years in jail for his involvement in the cybercrime gang’s activities. million dollars.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

According to Sensity , the number of deepfake videos online has nearly doubled every six months since 2018, and more than 85,000 deepfake videos have been detected as of December 2020. Considering that there’s been a significant rise in global searches for “deepfake” since the beginning of 2021, this number has likely grown even higher now.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

“The scam is frequently carried out when a subject compromises legitimate business email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques to conduct unauthorized transfers of funds.” In September 2019, the Bureau announced that the losses from BEC scams had doubled between May 2018 and July 2019.

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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 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. million (2.96 million (2.96

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. Since 2018, attackers have employed very sophisticated techniques in their attacks. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start. ” Martire told me.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018. billion records.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The APT group RedCurl, discovered by Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts, has been active since at least 2018. The earliest known RedCurl attack dates back to May 2018. From Russia to Canada. Group-IB specialists contacted each of them. Currently, some of the companies affected continue to respond to the incidents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The second half of 2018 saw a drop in the number of malicious programs downloaded via browsers reaching its minimum at less than 5%, while in the first half of 2019 only every 19 th download was initiated via means other than email. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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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. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

When PhishLabs published findings from its most recent report , it revealed that phishing attacks in 2018 went up by 40.9%. Instead, they use social engineering to pose as a person or company that the victim knows and responds to without question. Security Affairs – Paycheck, cybercrime). Plus, in 83.9%

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The Rubella Macro Builder crimeware kit appeared in the threat landscape on April 2018 and rapidly gained popularity in the cybercriminal underground. It allows crooks to generate a malicious payload for social-engineering spam campaigns, the author was offering it as a service for a three-month license of $120.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

According to Group-IB’s annual “ 2018 H i-Tech Crime Trends ” report, the estimated damage caused by targeted attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and the first three quarters of 2018 amounted to $877 million. Going forward, the list of exchanges where users are eligible for insurance is expected to expand.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

At the end of 2018, employees of the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs came across the trail of a group of telephone scammers who had long been involved in fraud, extracting large sums of money from Russian elderly people. SecurityAffairs – phone scammers, cybercrime). It’s rare for one of their victims to escape unscathed.”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first discovered this malware in 2018, together with the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability. The malware has been used to compromise at least a dozen organizations, starting in April 2021 at the latest, with most still compromised in late June 2022. SoleDragon is complex malware used by the SilentBreak threat group. Final thoughts.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

Although this company was incorporated in 2018, the scammers have been active since at least 2015 and used several different domain names and identities. Both individuals are registered as directors of a company in New Delhi called Lucro Soft pvt located at 14/28, F/F SUBHASH NAGAR NEW DELHI West Delhi DL 110027.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As we noted in 2018, there are many similarities between their ATM and PoS versions. It is highly targeted and is usually delivered through social engineering, e.g., a target business may receive a call from a “technician” who insists that the company needs to update its PoS software. Initial infection vector.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The hacked forum database shows a user “tankska” registered on OGUsers back in July 2018, but only made one post asking about the price of an older Twitter account for sale. youth whose mom turned him in to the local police in February 2018 when she overheard him talking on the phone and pretending to be an AT&T employee.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020. In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

Marriott International has confirmed that it was victim to another data breach, its third since 2018, as an anonymous group of threat actors says it was able to successfully exfiltrate 20 GB of data, which includes credit card and other confidential information. Social engineering. Fool me three times and, well.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Since the IC3 was created in 2000, it has consistently shined a light on forms of cybercrime – some new and evolving, others belligerently persistent – and has made laudable strides in stopping the fraudulent transfer of funds whenever possible. The report shows that BEC/EAC complaints have reduced from 20,373 in 2018 to 19,369 in 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. — Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) January 20, 2018. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense. AI-Powered Cybercrime Despite the advancements in using AI to improve security, cybercriminals also have access to AI and LLMs.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Recovering from the 2020 slump, the number of attacks continued to grow steadily, and we expect cybercrime activity to increase further. Number of unique devices affected by ATM/PoS malware in 2018–2021 ( download ). HydraPOS has been spotted in attacks that employed social engineering techniques.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In late September 2018, the REACT Task Force spearheaded an investigation that led to the arrest of two Missouri men — both in their early 20s — who are accused of conducting SIM swaps to steal $14 million from a cryptocurrency company based in San Jose, Calif. million customers.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 25, 2021

A post from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center offered few details, however, SecureWorld has uncovered a trail of deceit, lies, and social engineering which Russia used against its Olympic enemies around the time of a prior Olympics. researched victim details to prepare for social engineering. Here is the story.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to the most recent statistics from the FBI ‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the most costly form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud known as the “ B usiness E mail C ompromise” or BEC scam. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit CVE-2018-0802. The Trojan may also use social engineering to convince victims to download a smartphone app. The backdoor, which is the core component of Bizarro, contains more than 100 commands and allows the attackers to steal online banking account credentials.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. Ryuk, which first made a splash in 2018 as an offshoot of Hermes 2.1 Social engineering and phishing are combined with the exploitation of both known and application vulnerabilities until the attack gets the high-value data they are looking for???,

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. Moreover, the malware mentioned by Google matched ThreatNeedle – malware that we have been tracking since 2018. Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. Since 2018, we have been tracking Roaming Mantis – a threat actor that targets Android devices. When opened, this document eventually downloads a backdoor. Roaming Mantis reaches Europe. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta.

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