Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

In a direct message exchange on OGUsers from November 2019, lol is asked for help from another OGUser member whose Twitter account had been suspended for abuse. Twitter added that it is working with law enforcement and is rolling out additional company-wide training to guard against social engineering tactics.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Cybercriminals paid a monthly subscription fee to OTP.Agency, which provided tools for socially engineering victims and tricked them into revealing one-time passcodes or personal information. “Launched in November 2019, OTP Agency was a service for intercepting one-time passcodes needed to log in to various websites.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. The IC3 "provides the public with a trustworthy source for information on cyber criminal activity," and also is a useful tool for victims to report a cybercrime. The IC3 received 19,369 reports of BEC/EAC scams in 2020. "In

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). “Cybercriminals prey on vulnerable Americans and small businesses to deceive and defraud them,” said Secretary Steven T.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

Search results ad targets Deel Deel is a US-based payroll and human resources company founded in 2019 Deel whose platform is designed to streamline the complexities of managing a global workforce, offering solutions for payroll, HR, compliance, and more.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Experts revealed that the botnet was used by the TA505 cybercrime gang to distribute the FlawedAmmy RAT and some email stealers. “Amadey is a relatively new botnet , first noted late in Q1 of 2019. . “Amadey is a relatively new botnet , first noted late in Q1 of 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime. Depending on the number of infected computers, ransoms can reach millions of dollars.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

The banking malware is believed to be operated by the cybercrime gang known as Evil Corp. The earliest sample analyzed by Trend Micro was submitted to VirusTotal in April 2019, while the most recent one is dated December 2022. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 22, 2021

The PRODAFT Threat Intelligence Team has published a report (pdf) that gives an unusually clear look at the size and structure of organized cybercrime. EvilCorp is the name of a vast, international cybercrime network. It also found evidence of WastedLocker malware and other TTPs that matched with both EvilCorp and SolarWinds.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, was found guilty of 14 federal criminal charges for the scheme he ran from 2014 to 2019 that netted $25 million in criminal proceeds. Very often he would socially engineer employees at the IT help desk to get their credentials. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. Financial departments at high risk.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2020

The group was first mentioned in Group-IB’s annual report “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020.”. Group-IB’s technological leadership is built on the company’s 17 years of hands-on experience in cybercrime investigations around the world and 60 000 hours of cyber security incident response accumulated in one of ???

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack? ] PlugwalkJoe" targeted another public figure in June 2019, when he obtained unauthorized access to the victim's Snapchat account via a SIM swap. Now, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Joseph James O'Connor, a 23-year-old U.K.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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. The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. Traditionally, these attacks put an emphasis on social engineering, finding innovative new ways to defraud end-users.

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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

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. Crooks started using virtual meeting platforms due to the popularity they have reached during the pandemic.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Impact on brand and executive reputation In mid-2019, Moody’s published a research announcement declaring that artificial intelligence (AI) will make it easier to damage companies via fake videos and images, and that these deepfakes could harm the creditworthiness of a company as AI advances.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Then COVID-19 came along and obliterated societal norms and standard business practices. million from U.S.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In 2019 he gave an interview to CNBC in which he gives perhaps the best generalised advice about scams I’ve ever heard, and which I will repeat here. In his book The Art of Deception, infamous social engineer Kevin Mitnick describes how he would sometimes make several phone calls to build up the information he needed for a scam.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. We investigated a long-running espionage campaign, dubbed A41APT, targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas bases, which has been active since March 2019. Final thoughts.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Furthermore, from 2019–2023E, approximately USD 5.2 That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. IBM found that the average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days. billion by 2022. million.

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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.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It is highly targeted and is usually delivered through social engineering, e.g., a target business may receive a call from a “technician” who insists that the company needs to update its PoS software. Warning from a PoS vendor about Prilex social engineering attacks. Initial infection vector. START GHOST] _.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It's not every day one gets to talk with the former CIO of the Executive Office of the President at The White House (and first female to hold the position), 2019 Women Cybersecurity Leader of the Year, and current CEO, Senior Partner and President of Fortalice Solutions, LLC. RELATED: 5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks ].

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Their main focus is on cybercrime investigations. The main focus here is the social side of data loss. This blog educates about social engineering attacks and ways to prevent them. Secure Blitz In the Secure Blitz blog, you can find the latest cybersecurity news, useful tips, and in-depth cybercrime insights.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Detective Inspector Gerard Doyle of the Garda Siochana National Cybercrime Bureau urged victims not to pay the ransom. Sharon Conheady’s entertaining talk explored the ethical side of social engineering. Using humour to deliver a serious message, she said social engineering tests done badly can foster a “toxic” security culture.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Such was related to a worldwide malware operation known as NullMixer, a controversial and widespread malware delivery maneuver based on SEO poisoning and social engineering technique to lure tech-savvy users, including IT personnel.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, SoleDragon was also deployed through Skype. Our report focuses much more on the TTPs used by the threat actor in intrusions between late 2019 and mid-2021. Tracing the history of this backdoor, it appears the module has been used by this threat actor since at least 2019 and only with a select set of targets.

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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. Back in June 2019, we had identified an ad campaign targeting recipe keywords. com which belongs to a legitimate business. com (3) recipesonline365[.]com/?aclid=[removed]

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Final thoughts.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Late last year, we became aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware.

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