Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

User data appears to have been scraped in 2019 by malicious actors exploiting a vulnerability in the platform. Check if your personal info has been stolen or made public on the internet with Bitdefender’s Digital Identity Protection tool. What type of data was leaked? No data is old data.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Social Engineering Media 133

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 52

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp.

Social Engineering 261

Social Engineering Telecommunications Data privacy Engineering 261

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2019, we’ve seen a surge in domain name service (DNS) hijacking attempts and have relayed warnings from the U.S. In the enterprise environment, domain names, DNS, and certificates are the lifeline to any internet-based application including websites, email, apps, virtual private networks (VPNs), voice over IP (VoIP) and more.

DNS 182

DNS Firewall Social Engineering Risk 182

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. BEC has a home In the pantheon of ishings.

Scams 130

Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Human error still causes the overwhelming majority of cybersecurity breaches. Researchers from Stanford University found that approximately 88% of all data breaches are caused by an employee mistake. On 14th August 2019, the auto parts supplier was tricked into making a large fund transfer into the hackers’ bank account.

Cybersecurity 137

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Phishing Engineering 137

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Compromised logins continue to facilitate cyber attacks at all levels, from phishing ruses to credential stuffing to enabling hackers to probe deep inside of a breached network. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services.

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Passwords Authentication Data breaches Internet 164

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. Local storage prioritizes direct access, potential cost savings, and reduced reliance on the internet, yet lacks the scalability and security of the cloud.

Risk 122

Risk Backups Encryption DDOS 122

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. These concerns were apparently validated by a 2019 incident where deepfaked audio technology was used to scam a CEO out of $243,000.

IoT 130

IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I You could lose your data.'.

Social Engineering 95

Social Engineering Media Scams Financial Services 95

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 8, 2021

This must also be noted that the size of the cybersecurity market in 2019 was $2.99 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. .

Marketing 52

Marketing Mobile Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity 52

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. On eight of the compromised accounts, Twitter said, the attackers managed to download the account history using the Your Twitter Data tool.

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Hacking Accountability Scams Media 299

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) tallied over $1.8 Below are some of the most common social engineering ruses used to trick the employee into taking action.

Scams 72

Scams Social Engineering Accountability Ransomware 72

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. Definitely yes. Android Trojan bankers on the rise.

Cryptocurrency 110

Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 110

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. And a recent BlueCoat sandbox study demonstrated how 95.4%

Hacking 212

Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Your photo gallery or credit card information could be a part of this data, as well as your company’s G Suite files that the whole department has been working on for months.

Social Engineering 40

Social Engineering Accountability Phishing Cybersecurity 40

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rise of data leak site: many cyber extortion groups may pivot to solely conducting data exfiltration One of the biggest trends from 2021—which continued in 2022—was an expansion of the numbers of double extortion attacks, which originally started in 2019.

Cyber threats 52

Cyber threats Ransomware Media Data breaches 52

Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Below are figures from the IBM 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report : The average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days The average time to contain a breach was 73 days , for a total of 279 days The potential damage, stealing of data, and widespread compromise that can happen in the meantime can be enormous and catastrophic to your business.

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Cyber Attacks Phishing Backups Ransomware 78