BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim. When is a cybersecurity incident a GDPR data breach?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data from the Brazilian Federation of Banks registered a considerable increase in crime (such as explosions at bank branches to steal money) and cybercrime (increased phishing and social-engineering attacks) against banking customers and banking infrastructure. In April 2021, the Andariel group attempted to spread custom Ransomware.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. If you look at the dynamics of attacks on mobile users in 2020, you will see that the average monthly number of attacks decreased by 865,000 compared to 2019.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You even have a Ransomware Incident Response Plan. BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. It's not scary like ransomware and isn't making headlines, but BEC losses are larger than ransomware losses and in 2020 were 40% of all the losses tracked by the IC3. Secret Service.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Spear Phishing.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Email Account Compromise (EAC) are scams targeting individuals or organizations performing transfers of funds. This scam is most often used when an attacker compromises legitimate email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques. Ransomware.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. The account number they supply is NOT the correct account for donations.".

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ransomware attack rates will continue upward due to the malware’s ease of use combined with increased anonymity afforded by some cryptocurrencies. Their attacks are usually low-skill and low-resource, such as using social engineering (phishing) for fraudulent redirects to malicious websites. Ransomware Groups.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. Another branch of attacks revolve around ransomware, crypto jacking, denial of service attacks and malware spreading activities. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

VIPs and executives can also be impersonated to conduct social engineering attacks. In 2019, the FBI dubbed this tactic as the “ $26 Billion scam ”, given the high losses associated with this social engineering method.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On July 7, CISA issued an alert, “ North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware To Target the Healthcare and Public Health Sector “, based on a Stairwell report about Maui ransomware. The backdoor has been used in a variety of attacks, including ransomware attacks and espionage campaigns.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. Ransomware Defense Integration Cloud storage combats ransomware threats with integrated protection mechanisms and extensive methods recommended by cybersecurity experts.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

DarkReading Twitter account has more than 200k followers, a very solid number for the cybersecurity industry. In this blog, you can find detailed info about ransomware protection, wireless security, and much more. The main focus here is the social side of data loss. Here you can find more than 20 news articles each week.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. 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. That shortfall can be seen in windfall of criminal profits.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

The problem for Play Store users is that even without being social-engineered, due to the increasing number of Google Play malware campaigns, the risk of downloading a dropper mimicking a benign application has increased significantly. The rental of Anubis II was open from Q4 2017 until February 2019. Recent updates.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Ransomware is a sly, silent, and vicious criminal. But how do you get ransomware in the first place? This is what you, a potential ransomware victim, need to know to protect your data and your business in 2020. How Do You Get Ransomware: Key Points So, where do you get ransomware from? Weird sender address.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

Healthcare sees 580% jump in ransomware attacks. “Phone scammers were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019.” Legitimate contact tracers will never ask for: Insurance information, Bank account information, Credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, or. Written by Social-Engineer.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Blackberry released a report centered around an entity they call Zebra 2104 and which appears to be an “initial access broker” According to their research, Zebra 2014 has provided ransomware operators with an initial foothold into some of their victims. More disruptive attacks. This prediction proved to be accurate.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ryuk, a mainstay of the ransomware scene for some years until it transformed into Conti (and then split off into other groups after that), is back in the news again. What we have is a guilty plea, as a Russian citizen is the focus of a ransomware-centric money laundering story. though not in the way you might have imagined.

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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. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2020

Businesses have long been worried about the threat of ransomware. However, a new breed of ransomware poses a threat to the next infrastructure landscape of your business – the cloud. “Ransomware 2.0” What is ransomware 2.0? W hy is ransomware so successful? What is Ransomware 2.0?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. In their 2022 report, System Intrusion took the lead, accounting for 40% of all breach events. Source: DBIR [1]. “So So what do these categories mean?” But that wasn’t what the DBIR data had shown.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Kremlin breaks with all tradition and announces that — at the request of the United States — it has arrested 14 people suspected of working for REvil , one of the more ruthless and profitable Russian ransomware groups. Tank, seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s still showing up to drop ransomware and Trojans, harvest credentials, and spy on organizations like yours. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. We’re talking about the email attack variety. Why should I care about Phish?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

A European subsidiary of the Toyota Group, Toyota Boshoku Corporation, suffered a massive BEC attack in August 2019 that cost the company $37.3 On 14th August 2019, the auto parts supplier was tricked into making a large fund transfer into the hackers’ bank account. Social engineering. Sequoia Capital.

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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. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the United States, the FBI report indicates that there was a 69% increase in total complaints in comparison with 2019. In Singapore, cybercrimes accounted for 43% of overall crimes. Social engineering and phishing attacks are the most common vector. Ransomware cases increase.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. In their 2022 report, System Intrusion took the lead, accounting for 40% of all breach events. Source: DBIR [1] “So what do these categories mean?” But that wasn’t what the DBIR data had shown.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Phishing 52

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

This tool was used as part of an ongoing campaign that we named “ TunnelSnake “ The rootkit was detected on the targeted machines as early as November 2019; and another tool we found, showing significant code overlaps with the rootkit, suggests that the developers had been active since at least 2018. Ferocious Kitten.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

According to the old Akamai 2019 Traffic Report, back then, 83% of HTTP traffic on the Internet was made up of API calls. projects that present expert opinions on contemporary information security matters, including social engineering, malware, penetration testing, threat intelligence, online privacy, and white hat hacking.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware. Unlike ransomware, it might be a criminal operation that does not involve the collection of a ransom. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. Phishing and Social Engineering. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets. Browser hijacker.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

According to DBIR, social engineering and basic web application attacks account for over 50% of all incidents of breaches. When we thought about 2020, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under system intrusion). But that isn’t what Verizon’s data showed.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

The ransomware threat is huge, and it gets bigger every day. Some estimates of the damages exceed one billion dollars, taking into account data loss, service outages, disrupted operations, and recovery. But how does ransomware work? Most antiviruses don’t protect against ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

A 2019 paper published to the Journal of Cybersecurity analyzed over 235 cyber insurance policies from New York, Pennsylvania, and California, as well as policies posted publicly on carriers’ websites. Here are four ways your business can save money on its insurance. How is cyber insurance priced?

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 2, 2021

History of TA505’s Shift to Ransomware Operations. The attacks performed mostly consisted of compromising organisations and social engineering victims to execute high value bank transfers to corporate mule accounts. 2019: Clop and wider tooling. 2014: Emergence as a group. 2017: Evolution.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. As long as actors go undetected, the timing of attacks is on the perpetrator’s terms.

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