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. Use multi-factor authentication for all accounts and login credentials to the extent possible.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“What actions are required is not clear; however, we do know that exploitation requires an authenticated user level of access,” Breen said. “This combination suggests that the exploit requires a social engineering element, and would likely be seen in initial infections using attacks like MalDocs or LNK files.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier. For that reason, SIM swapping can be used to circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA) that requires a manually-entered code, sent by SMS message.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack. For maximum security on your domains, consider adopting some or all of the following best practices: -Use 2-factor authentication, and require it to be used by all relevant users and subcontractors. -In

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

CVE-2019-8605 internally referred to as SockPort2 and publicly known as SockPuppet CVE-2020-3837 internally referred to and publicly known as TimeWaste. A Hermit spyware campaign starts off as a seemingly authentic messaging app users are deceived into downloading. CVE-2020-9907 internally referred to as AveCesare.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. A treasure trove for social engineers. Encourage customers to use Multi-factor Authentication (MFA).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. According to the FBI, phishing was the most common type of cybercrime last year—nearly doubling in frequency between 2019 and 2020.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

That’s why email-validation services are an attractive target for cybercriminals looking for a fresh batch of email addresses for their next wave of social engineering attacks. and River City Media data breaches. In short, Verifications.io

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

According to Brighton and Hove news , his spree began in 2019 with the initial purchase of a laptop from Amazon, bought with “fake Honey gift vouchers” I would love to know more about how this initial foray into system compromise worked, as one would imagine purchasing anything with fake vouchers would be a bit of a tall order.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Today’s columnist, Rob Shavell of Abine, points out that better employee training about deepfake technology can possibly stop the famous 2019 case where a UK executive was duped by phone into transferring $200,000+ to a Hungarian bank, but companies also need to do a better job of managing the personal information of employees.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

“In January 2019 the NCSC published an alert to highlight a large-scale global campaign to hijack Domain Name Systems (DNS).” In the first half of 2019, hackers have modified the DNS settings of over 180,000 Brazilian routers with even more complex attacks. ” reads the security advisory.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Cleafy, a cybersecurity firm specializing in online fraud, has published new details about banking Trojan BRATA (Brazilian Remote Access Tool, Android), a known malware strain that first became widespread in 2019. A two-factor authentication (2FA) code from the bank does not protect accounts here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Scammers use to compromise legitimate business or personal email accounts through different means, such as social engineering or computer intrusion to conduct unauthorized transfers of funds. Use secondary channels or two-factor authentication to verify requests for changes in account information.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss this war of attrition with Will LaSala, director of security services and security evangelist at OneSpan, a Chicago-based provider of anti-fraud, e-signature and digital identity solutions to 2,000 banks worldwide. Defenses are thus becoming for flexible and adaptive.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The crypto-currency scams, which started in 2019, saw hackers recruit their targets on one Russian-speaking platform. Improvements made by Google to protect their users from future attacks include heuristic rules that detect and then block social engineering & phishing emails, live streams for crypto-scams and theft of cookies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The research was conducted between mid-July 2019 and early September 2019. Thus, data stored on them could be accessed without authentication. The experts at Greenbone Networks vulnerability analysis and management company discovered 600 unprotected servers exposed online that contained medical radiological images.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 Social Engineering: Cybercriminals are increasingly using sophisticated social engineering tools to trick people into revealing their login credentials.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of email phishing attack that relies on social engineering. Group-IB has been tracking the gang since 2019 and established that around 500,000 government and private sector companies could have been compromised by TMT gang members. 1 Courtesy of INTERPOL.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 4, 2019. We’re taking this step because of vulnerabilities that need to be addressed by mobile carriers and our reliance on having a linked phone number for two-factor authentication (we’re working on improving this),” reads a message posted by Twitter.

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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. Anyone with sensitive data stored in the cloud is vulnerable in the event of data breach, so enforce strong encryption, authentication, and patching measures.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. But for the most part, the BEC "weaponization" process is more aligned to compiling the reconnaissance to develop authentic-appearing email accounts and messages. You even have a Ransomware Incident Response Plan.

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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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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

100% NOT a pyramid scheme Social media pages are not the only concern when it comes to brand and logo theft. 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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The real domain was registered in 2014 and we even found a billboard advertisement for it tweeted out on April 26 2019, long before the scammers had registered their copycat domain. However, the majority of them did not look authentic or functional and even still had the ‘Lorem ipsum’ text filler. com (3) recipesonline365[.]com/?aclid=[removed]

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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. Social media accounts associated with angler phishing increased by about 40% in 2020. Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. According to IBM’s 2019 report, the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years and now costs $3.92 million on average.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since at least 2019, the Mustang Panda threat actor group has targeted government and public sector organizations across Asia and Europe [3] with long-term cyberespionage campaigns in line with strategic interests of the Chinese government.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2022

These variants of Vidar malware fetch the C2 configuration from attacker-controlled social media channels hosted on Telegram and Mastodon network. 50;true;movies:music:mp3; This configuration is the default with every stealing function enabled (passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, two-factor authentication, etc). Vidar Samples.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. The scam is frequently carried out when a criminal compromises legitimate business e-mail accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques. Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. BEC is the costliest crime for businesses.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

LockBit ransomware was initially discovered in September 2019. Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) for all user accounts if possible. Since then, the malware has been used in ransomware attacks against a range of industries located across the globe. Malware analysis researchers have also discovered that LockBit 2.0

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Many of these attacks prey upon human nature by using social engineering tactics to trick a user into inadvertently allowing ransomware onto their system, under the guise of something legitimate. Enabling multi-factor authentication. Use strong passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. Renewability.

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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. Toyota Boshoku Corporation .

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

Between 2015 and 2019, Ferizi was imprisoned at a facility in Illinois that housed several other notable convicts. 2015 by criminals who social engineered PayPal employees over the phone into changing my password and bypassing multi-factor authentication. Junaid Hussain’s Twitter profile photo.

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