The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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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. Hacker targets victims with fear. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Disable compromised accounts or restrict their permissions immediately, update passwords for authorized users to prevent further unauthorized access. ISO 22301:2019 is a leading framework here. Weak and stolen passwords Require all employees to reset their passwords immediately following the breach.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. ” states HaveIBeenPwned.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. It works because users often use the same password for multiple websites. It's good in theory but fails in practice.

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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. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s columnist, Marcus Kaber of Specops Software, writes that as much as the tech companies are pushing biometrics options like facial recognition, most enterprises still run on legacy passwords. Enterprise security and IT are mostly well aware of these many password-driven risks. Industry must double down on password protection.

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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

JULY 5, 2021

Other cybersecurity news.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. Some reports say the data was scraped in 2019, others talk about early 2020. If you are, or were, a Facebook user this may very well concern you.

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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. It can be your login and password to your Office 365 or G Suite or some other information. Having a mandatory password policy.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts. Multi-factor authentication is so much more secure, and with that a lot more forgiving, than passwords alone. So we wholeheartedly agree with Amazon on this.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. “Most of the observed malware was capable of stealing both user passwords and cookies.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

Beside stealing usernames, passwords and circumventing two factor authentication, we identified malicious code capable of performing additional nefarious actions unbeknownst to the victim. After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and uses them as Proxy C2 servers. ” reads the report. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Dragos, the Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals.

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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. The leaked data contained no highly sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers or Social Security numbers.

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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 Given that 52% of people use the same password for multiple accounts, compromising one account can give a criminal access to a vast range of personal data. Selling Stolen Data.

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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.

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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. The malware has the ability to steal passwords and cookies. The malware that was most observed was able to steal both the cookies and passwords. Opensource tools include AdamantiumThief and Sorano.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Impacted T-Mobile customers are recommended to change their password, PIN, and security questions. Such kind of info could be used by hackers in social engineering attack against T-Mobile’s customer support employees with the intent of stealing the victim’s phone number.

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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. “Cybercriminals prey on vulnerable Americans and small businesses to deceive and defraud them,” said Secretary Steven T.

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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. I could set up a fake website, and people would go to the website.’”.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

It can read SMS and chat messages, view passwords, intercept calls, record calls and ambient audio, redirect calls, and pinpoint precise locations of victims. CVE-2019-8605 internally referred to as SockPort2 and publicly known as SockPuppet CVE-2020-3837 internally referred to and publicly known as TimeWaste.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

According to Active Network data breach notice, parents who accessed Blue Bear-based web store to pay school fees or buy books and other material between October 1, 2019, and November 13, 2019, might have had their personal data stolen. “We recently identified suspicious activity on the Blue Bear platform. .

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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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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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

“Amadey is a relatively new botnet , first noted late in Q1 of 2019. In classic social engineering attack, the phishing message presents a “one time username and password” to the victims and urges the user to click the “Login Right Here” button. ” reads the analysis published by Cofense.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2019, the company was ordered to pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating consumers’ privacy rights. The fine was the largest ever imposed on a social media company for privacy violations. These steps are incredibly labor-intensive and extremely difficult and at great cost.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 7, 2022

Raccoon Stealer has been around since April 2019, and was one of the most prolific information stealers in 2021. DropBox and social engineering. Scammers would use social engineering to trick users into navigating to filesharing sites, like DropBox, via a malicious URL, causing them to download Raccoon Stealer.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

TL;DR Strong passwords : Use a password manager. This makes it harder for unauthorised users to gain access even if they have your password. These systems store your passwords in a single encrypted vault. But protecting your password manager is a password… so what do you set your password manager password to?

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