Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio’s activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Amnesty International warns of threat actors that are launching phishing attacks aimed at bypassing Gmail, Yahoo 2FA at scale. Amnesty experts monitored several credential phishing campaigns targeting individuals across the Middle East and North Africa. SecurityAffairs – 2FA, phishing attacks). ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Branching attacks. Fast forward to 2017.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Another noticeable phishing trend targeting the corporate sector was to exploit popular cloud services as bait.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. SecurityAffairs – hacking, healthcare). million payments. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2018, Uber had to pay a high price of $148 million for exposing the personal information of 57 million people worldwide – including driver’s license information – after trying to pay the ransom and keep things quiet. Keeping crucial.env files secure is essential, as they could be used to compromise services and applications.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls.

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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. Spear phishing remains the major vector of attack on corporate networks. rimeCon conference.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, email addresses). Who had access?

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

As we look at the past year of 2018, it is all too easy to see that data breach or leak of sensitive information is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the top Cloud Data Breaches in 2018 and see how they were carried out, what data was leaked, and the weakness that was exposed by the breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The LockBit Locker group is known for using a combination of advanced techniques, even phishing, and also social engineering, to gain initial access to a company’s network. One of the most concerning aspects of these recent attacks is the way in which they are being conducted.

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018.

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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. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta. When opened, this document eventually downloads a backdoor.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

Consider that the average cost for a ransomware attack against a business is about $4,400, and your run of the mill phishing incident weighs in at a much less hefty $500. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? In September 2019, the Bureau announced that the losses from BEC scams had doubled between May 2018 and July 2019.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ursnif). ” Martire told me. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. This stolen booty reportedly included social security numbers, phone numbers, names, home addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Could be phished credentials. Could be a bad actor.

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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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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

The report shows that BEC/EAC complaints have reduced from 20,373 in 2018 to 19,369 in 2020. billion in 2018 to $1.86 The ever-present phishing challenge. The IC3 received 241,342 complaints on phishing and related attacks like smishing, vishing, and pharming in 2020, a 110% increase over complaints received in 2019.

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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. As with all subsequent campaigns, the initial compromise vector was a well-written phishing email. SecurityAffairs – hacking, RedCurl).

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Hackers Do a Payroll Diversion Through Phishing. A direct deposit paycheck hack involves getting the necessary details from the victim through a phishing scheme. An Increasingly Attempted Hack. This method hackers use likely won’t come as a surprise when you consider a few recent statistics about phishing.

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Phishing Accountability Banking Social Engineering 85

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 Attacks on bank customers: The decline of Android Trojans and the triumph of phishing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This is a four-fold increase compared to the previous review period (H2 2018 to H1 2019), when it totaled $1.6 For comparison, during all of 2018, only 37 access sellers were active, while in 2019 there were 50 sellers who offered access to 130 corporate networks. Phishing grows by 118%. IT giants, and media companies.

Banking 125

Banking Ransomware Phishing Marketing 125

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? Look out for potential phishing emails and spam emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, US citizen records). What happened to the data? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

Campaign attackers have been highly effective at fooling victims into revealing their logon credentials to copycat websites (phishing). 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.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2018. election process.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

In late 2018, the USPS Informed Delivery service was hit with a massive data breach, exposing 60 million records. The problem wasn’t a hack, but a broken API. This has created some new problems for security teams because there is no particular place where they can look to address potential security problems at the API level.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

The attack started on the night of April 10, threat actors launched a spear phishing campaign from an e-mail address that pretended to be sent from an employee of the Ministry of Defense. Security Center has confirmed it is a typical social engineering attack using spoofed email accounts, it also attributed the attack to a foreign government.

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SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

Most of the attacks start with a spear-phishing email containing a Microsoft Word document or a ZIP archive with an LNK file inside. Hacktivism Hacktivism, a marriage of hacking and activism, is often excluded from a company’s threat profile. This small group, active since 2022, mainly performs hack-and-leak operations.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. Last DNS activity was in December 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Rules with teeth This fast-tracking of Middle East cybersecurity regulations unfolded as the European Union was putting the finishing touches on its tough new data privacy and data handling rules, with enforcement teeth , set forth in GDPR, which took effect in May 2018. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The initial attack vector was a phishing email disguised as an email from a government entity or service. The group targets its victims by sending spear-phishing emails with Microsoft Office documents attached. These are new variants of the same hacking tools that we first reported in August 2019, and later detailed again in June 2021.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

Console hacks weren’t taken particularly seriously. It could be a fairly straightforward phish. Did the attacker bypass text-based 2FA by social engineering the mobile provider? In 2018, they were offering backpack upgrades for anybody using authentication and their SMS Protect service.

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