The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

million in illicit earnings since its emergence in 2019. Classiscam campaigns initially started out on classified sites, on which scammers placed fake advertisements and used social engineering techniques to convince users to pay for goods by transferring money to bank cards," Group-IB said in a new report.

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Dark Reading

MAY 8, 2019

Criminals are also going after cloud-based email accounts, according to Verizon's '2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.'

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The cyber espionage threat actor tracked as Earth Kitsune has been observed deploying a new backdoor called WhiskerSpy as part of a social engineering campaign. Earth Kitsune, active since at least 2019, is known to primarily target individuals interested in North Korea with self-developed malware such as dneSpy and agfSpy.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined. While the number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 decreased by 58% compared to 2019, the coronavirus pandemic gave cybercriminals new ways to thrive,” wrote Bitdefender researcher and blogger Alina Bizga.

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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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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Sodinokibi was discovered in 2019 and is highly evasive. The group uses a special social engineering move as the ones who spread the […]. REvil ransomware has fully returned and is attacking new victims and publishing stolen files on a data leak site.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It affects Microsoft Windows 10 and later, as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and subsequent versions. “This vulnerability can be exploited locally, with low complexity and without needing high-level privileges or user interaction,” said Mike Walters , president and co-founder of the security firm Action1.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that the Shlayer malware was the most widespread macOS threat in 2019. According to Kaspersky, in 2019, one in ten of our Mac security solutions encountered this malware at least once. The post Which was the most common threat to macOS devices in 2019? up to 10.14.3.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 29, 2021

Discovered in April 2019, Revil, also known as Sodinokibi, is a highly evasive and upgraded ransomware, which uses a special social engineering move – the ones who spread it threaten to double the ransom if […].

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2022

Alethe Denis was on maternity leave when she decided to participate in DEF CON's Social Engineering Capture the Flag competition in 2019. She took her three-month-old daughter and her husband to Las Vegas and planned the trip to the finest detail. Things could have gone wildly wrong," Denis says. "It

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. . ” Dijkxhoorn shared records obtained from OpenProvider showing that on Dec.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. Social engineering trigger While no fancy malware is needed to pull off a BEC scam, technology does come into play. These are soft targets,” he says. It’s simple fraud.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the United States, the FBI report indicates that there was a 69% increase in total complaints in comparison with 2019. Deepfakes, mis and disinformation threaten to disrupt the social tissue of modern democracies by damaging the trust people place on institutions, each other and science. Ransomware cases increase.

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Architect Security

AUGUST 4, 2019

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A ransomware attack targeted the email systems at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in April 2019. Determine which employees are vulnerable to social engineering attacks. Today’s columnist, David Trepp of BPM LLP, says detailed pen tests will show how systems can handle future attacks on email and other critical systems.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged that “a small number” of customer domain names had been modified after a “limited” number of GoDaddy employees fell for a social engineering scam. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

User data appears to have been scraped in 2019 by malicious actors exploiting a vulnerability in the platform. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019,” Liz Bourgeois, Facebook’s Director of Strategic Response Communications, said in a tweet.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. This time around, if you thought ransomware and phishing should have been at the top (these fall under System Intrusion and Social Engineering ) you would have been right! We used that as our baseline.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The stolen data is only worth something in so far as it can be used to extract money from somebody, so we expect it will be used in social engineering attacks, like scams and phishing. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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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. 5 Main Sources in 2019 first appeared on SpinOne. How Do You Get Ransomware: Key Points So, where do you get ransomware from?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

This sort of information would no doubt be of interest to scammers seeking to conduct social engineering attacks against Sprint employees as way to perpetrate other types of fraud, including unauthorized SIM swaps or in gleaning more account information from targeted customers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers explore the insecure world of the subdomain (Source: Can i take your subdomain) Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments (Source: The Register) How facial recognition solutions can safeguard the hybrid workplace (Source: Help Net Security) Capital One hacker faces fresh charges for 2019 hacking spree (Source: (..)

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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The first campaign dubbed the Spark Campaign employs social engineering to infect victims with the Spark backdoor. “This backdoor first emerged in January 2019 and has been continuously active since then. “This backdoor first emerged in December 2019, and was discovered by Cybereason.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

It was established in 2019 to diversify Saudi Arabia’s economy away from oil and gas. file was indexed by IoT search engines was in March 2022, meaning that the data was exposed for at least 15 months. Meanwhile, the now-closed MIM’s env. MIM is a government body responsible for industry and mineral resources operations.

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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. Any actions done by the threat actor have been reverted and the impacted customers have been notified. We have taken steps across our technology, processes and employee education, to help prevent these types of attacks in the future.”

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“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.” . “What actions are required is not clear; however, we do know that exploitation requires an authenticated user level of access,” Breen said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

” Microsoft says the flaw affects Windows 10 and Windows 11 , as well as Server 2019 and Server 2022. “Exploitation would require social engineering to entice a victim to open an attachment or visit a malicious website,” he said. “Test and deploy this patch quickly.” ” Quickly indeed. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

The Russia-linked APT group Turla employed two new pieces of malware in attacks launched over a period of roughly two months in the fall of 2019. The Russia-linked APT group Turla employed two new pieces of malware in attacks launched over a period of roughly two months in the fall of 2019. com / wp -includes/data_from_db_top [. ]

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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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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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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020. .

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls.

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