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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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.

Healthcare 74

Healthcare Social Engineering Accountability Passwords 74

Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. Any actions done by the threat actor have been reverted and the impacted customers have been notified.

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Phishing DNS Social Engineering Accountability 292

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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Scams Social Engineering Data breaches Media 116

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.

Social Engineering 105

Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Malware Antivirus 105

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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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.

Mobile 84

Mobile Identity Theft Social Engineering Retail 84

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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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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Spyware Government Social Engineering Mobile 107

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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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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Accountability Malware Phishing Social Engineering 120

Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Other cybersecurity news.

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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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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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Accountability Malware Scams Antivirus 99

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

LODEINFO has been observed engaged in a spear- phishing campaign since December 2019 by JPCERT/CC. As long as you need employees, you will get spear-phishing campaigns and other social engineering attacks. If employees are allowed to use “123456” for their password, it’s a major risk. during their investigation.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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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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DNS Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering 80

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2022

From there, the attacker was able to grab service/default passwords via a splash of social engineering. In 2019, Australia’s early warning system for dangerous weather was compromised. Port scanning systems frequently used for emergency alerts revealed keywords that were potentially used for the alerts.

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Social Engineering Backups Firewall Software 86

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.

Ransomware 69

Ransomware Antivirus Malware Banking 69

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.’”.

Banking 147

Banking Mobile Accountability Artificial Intelligence 147

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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Data breaches Software Social Engineering Accountability 57

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. BRATA is now being used to perform factory resets on victims’ machines.

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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.

Mobile 87

Mobile Telecommunications Data breaches Identity Theft 87

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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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.

Social Engineering 73

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Accountability 73

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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Phishing Social Engineering Malware Advertising 81

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. Passwords – and people’s tendency to reuse them – aren’t keeping people secure enough.

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Social Engineering Insurance CISO Ransomware 59

The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. Talk more soon.

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Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Banking 166

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. .

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Security Through Education

MAY 31, 2021

For the first 9 months of 2019, there were more than 11.2 A 2019 report showed that teens (13 years old and up) use their phone for an average of 7 hours and 22 minutes per day. It’s import to check their online search history, what they are posting on social media, as well as their emails, and texts. How do you use it?

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Media Education Internet Internet 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? If your email happens to be among those leaked, immediately change your email password. Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials.

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Marketing Media Advertising Identity Theft 94

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.

Cryptocurrency 119

Cryptocurrency Accountability Scams Social Engineering 119

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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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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Media Social Engineering Backups Passwords 62

Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

“Phone scammers were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019.” The pandemic is providing the perfect cover for cybercrime, as can be seen in the alarming statistic from First Orion that criminals were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019 via vishing or phone scams.

Scams 92

Scams Computers and Electronics Insurance Social Engineering 92

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. Unauthorized Access Unauthorized users may get access to cloud resources due to lax password regulations, inadequate authentication systems, or compromised user accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

“In June 2019, ThreatFabric analysts found a new Android malware, dubbed “Cerberus”, being rented out on underground forums. The malicious code users overlay attacks to steal sensitive and financial data from the victim, including credit card numbers, banking credentials and passwords for bank accounts.

Banking 87

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