CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

According to a study conducted by se-curity firm Mandiant, the group has been in operation since 2018 and has now been tasked with carrying out both espionage and financially motivated attacks such as credential harvesting and social engineering.

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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? OnePercent utilizes a malicious file attachment via phishing email.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. 2, and Aug.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Since 2018, one of the Lazarus Group’s tactics has been to disguse AppleJeus malware as cryptocurrency trading platforms for both Windows and Mac. Victims are lured into downloading the malware with a variety of social engineering tactics, including spearphishing. Spearphishing campaigns.

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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. million payments. ” reads the alert. The attacker stole $3.1 million with this attack.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture.

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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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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. JD Sports claims that the affected data was "limited" and did not include credit card details.

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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. This data was included in the annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, presented by Group-IB CTO, Dmitry Volkov, at the sixth international Cyber?rimeCon rimeCon conference.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

SafetyDetectives reports the average cost of a ransomware-caused downtime incident has risen from $46,800 in 2018, to $141,000 in 2019, to $283,800 in 2020. My rough scribble of how ransomware sophistication surpassed our defensive capabilities somewhere around 2018. Google Trends Data for the term Cyber Peal Harbor.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A phishing campaign known to specifically target employees with access to their company's Facebook Business and Ads accounts has significantly widened its net and begun using a first-of-its-kind information-stealing malware to go after crypto wallets. Social engineering attacks and malware form the core of Ducktail's modus operandi.

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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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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

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. Who had access?

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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. However, by combining this data with deepfakes, cybercriminals can theoretically create almost undetectable phishing attacks.

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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. Phishing attacks are done over email and are one of the most popular vectors for scammers and cyber criminals.

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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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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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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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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. Talk more soon.

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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

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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Sometimes, it’s used even if an attack being discussed is a basic phish, or maybe some very generic malware. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. However, TrickBot is a pretty formidable opponent.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Reports revealed recently that the personal information of some 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries were exposed.

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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. From Russia to Canada. Who are you, Mr. Pentester?

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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. This method hackers use likely won’t come as a surprise when you consider a few recent statistics about phishing. Plus, in 83.9%

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Phishing and Social Engineering Campaigns Are a Leading Concern Attackers can easily access email lists and profiles from the dark web and stage a phishing attack to your retail company. CSOonline.com reports that 94% of malware is delivered via email, and phishing attacks account for more than 80% of security incidents.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Phishing campaigns aimed at harvesting as many user credentials as possible, for example, are a dime a dozen. True social engineers, or just desperate? What we believed to be the first variant of this scam in 2018 was simple and solely focused on misusing the Steam trading function.

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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. You’re still getting the social engineering of someone sending a text message that you’ve never heard of. The mobile banking app is used as a delivery mechanism.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Could be phished credentials. Sascha Fahrbach , cybersecurity evangelist, Fudo Security : Our personal data has immense value to cyber criminals; it is very likely that hackers will now weaponize this data to create advanced phishing attacks. Could be a bad actor.

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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. Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials. What happened to the data?

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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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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

MARCH 25, 2019

In late 2018, the USPS Informed Delivery service was hit with a massive data breach, exposing 60 million records. 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. This dynamic came into play at the U.S. Postal Service.

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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. They can be purchased from data theft rings or they can be directly spear phished by the attacker. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

The Last Watchdog

MAY 7, 2019

Human fallibility is the reason social engineering has proven to be so effective – and why phishing persists. Consider these metrics from messaging security firm Proofpoint : •Email-based corporate credential phishing attacks quadrupled in Q3 2018 vs. the previous quarter. Cyber criminals get this.

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