Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The danger zone If you made an online purchase from some of the companies that are owned by JD Sports between November 2018 and October 2020, your data may have been accessed by individuals who didn't have permission to do so. The affected data is limited.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

It can read SMS and chat messages, view passwords, intercept calls, record calls and ambient audio, redirect calls, and pinpoint precise locations of victims. According to Google’s report, these are the following exploits: CVE-2018-4344 internally referred to and publicly known as LightSpeed.

Spyware 103

Spyware Government Social Engineering Mobile 103

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. ” This claim was backed up by Grzegorz Milka, a Google software engineer who presented at the Usenix’s Enigma 2018 security conference.

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Authentication Social Engineering Passwords Accountability 71

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 297

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn.

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Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

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. If your email happens to be among those leaked, we strongly recommend that you immediately change your email password. Who had access?

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Social Engineering Passwords Marketing Phishing 124

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Impacted T-Mobile customers are recommended to change their password, PIN, and security questions. 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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Mobile Telecommunications Data breaches Identity Theft 93

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2022

From there, the attacker was able to grab service/default passwords via a splash of social engineering. Consider the chaos generated back in 2018 when an alert in Hawaii regarding an incoming missile was sent in error. What would you send to everyone in the United States? thugcrowd pic.twitter.com/jkQwfmPem6.

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Social Engineering Backups Firewall Software 79

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Dragos, the Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals.

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DNS Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering 82

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

Just prior to this strategic repositioning, I met with Will LaSala, the company’s security evangelist, at RSA Conference 2018. No one liked the use case where you typed in a password from a hardware dongle into your mobile application. -based supplier of automated identity verification and digital account onboarding technologies.

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Banking Mobile Social Engineering Authentication 173

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 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects.

Ransomware 71

Ransomware Antivirus Malware Banking 71

Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority. Hackers are well aware of this and collect passwords from credential dumps or the dark web. million to $4.24

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2023

CNBC wrote about the phenonmenon of virtual kidnappings in 2018, before the current AI boom. The basics remain the same, and social engineering is where a lot of these attacks take shape. Consider a password that family members can use to confirm they actually are in danger. Make your data private. A plausible alert.

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Scams Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Banking 98

Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Like Steam phishing campaigns, this particular Steam scam—referred to loosely as the “I accidentally reported you” or “I accidentally reported your account” scam—has been coming and going since initial reports of it emerged in late 2018. Never give anybody your Steam Guard password.

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Scams Accountability Social Engineering Passwords 145

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This allowed them to access many apps and ask for password resets, which often confirm the request is intended for the correct user by sending a "Two Factor Authentication" request in the form of an SMS message. Some crypto currency exchanges use an even stronger method, of requiring confirmation both by an SMS to the phone and by email.

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Cryptocurrency Accountability Scams Social Engineering 119

The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. Talk more soon.

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Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Banking 166

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Look for unusual activity on your phone and requests for password resets you’re not expecting. Cybercriminals capture authentication information, and they are often using social engineering tactics to target key employees and executives, putting human capital at major risk.

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Mobile Data breaches Authentication Accountability 306

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? If your email happens to be among those leaked, immediately change your email password. Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Last week I wrote a couple of different pieces on passwords, firstly about why we're going to be stuck with them for a long time yet and then secondly, about how we all bear some responsibility for making good password choices. This week, I wanted to focus on going beyond passwords and talk about 2FA.

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Passwords Authentication Accountability Mobile 260

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. To do so, RedCurl uses the LaZagne tool, which extracts passwords from memory and from files saved in the victim’s web browser. From Russia to Canada.

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Phishing Social Engineering Banking Advertising 141

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

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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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

They asked us to download TeamViewer and share the ID and password so they could connect. They typically use the SysKey Windows utility to put a password that only they know. Although this company was incorporated in 2018, the scammers have been active since at least 2015 and used several different domain names and identities.

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Software Scams Passwords Banking 145

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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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. Add to that widespread warnings to use social media circumspectly.

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Computers and Electronics Data privacy Encryption Media 113

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first discovered this malware in 2018, together with the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability. Lazarus Group delivered additional malware such as a keylogger and password-dumping tool to collect more information. SoleDragon is complex malware used by the SilentBreak threat group. Final thoughts.

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Malware Ransomware Spyware Encryption 143

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 8, 2021

The severity of the security situation can be assessed from a fact reported by Cybint, a leading international cybersecurity educator, stating that as much as 62% of businesses faced phishing and social engineering attacks in the year 2018. . However, there are some factors that will hinder the growth of the market.

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Marketing Mobile Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity 52

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

operators have successfully gained initial access during attack campaigns via exploitation of vulnerabilities (Exploit public-facing application) in Fortinet software components, such as the long-existing vulnerability FortiOS software components tracked under CVE-2018-13379 [6]. .

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Ransomware Encryption Manufacturing Backups 52

SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Jared Polis, at the time Colorado’s governor-elect, speaks at a 2018 election night rally. Governor Polis last week signed the Colorado Privacy Act into law. Photo by Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images). Following in the footsteps of California and Virginia, Colorado last week became the third U.S.

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Education Security Awareness Data privacy Social Engineering 109

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. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 106

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

Vince married in 2018 and moved to Lakeland, FL, where he enjoys the quiet of the country with his wife LaWaysha and son Nathan. I began with securing networking equipment for customers to now securing mobile devices, gaming systems, Internet of Things (“Alexa”), the work environment, social engineering, etc.

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Engineering Cybersecurity Energy and Utilities Software 124

SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We reported about the first variant of such software back in 2018, but there were many other samples to be found, which was later reported by the US CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) in 2021. This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions.

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Cryptocurrency Malware Accountability Banking 134

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. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 52

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Cybercriminals decided to take advantage of that exclusivity, creating phishing pages that assured visitors their verified status had been approved and all they needed to do was to enter their account logins and passwords. The fourth most common malware were vulnerability exploits CVE-2018-0802 (4.33%) in Microsoft Equation Editor.

Phishing 102

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 102

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Fake notifications about meetings in Microsoft Teams or a message about important documents sent via SharePoint for salary payment approval aimed to lower the recipient’s guard and prompt them to enter the username and password for their corporate account. Phishers used various ploys related to COVID-19.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Banking 72

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. 2015 by criminals who social engineered PayPal employees over the phone into changing my password and bypassing multi-factor authentication.

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Identity Theft Government Social Engineering Accountability 315