Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

The social media platform Twitter suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, multiple high-profile accounts were hacked. Twitter explained is was victim of a”coordinated social engineering attack” against its employees who gave attackers the access to its internal tools.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

According to DBIR, social engineering and basic web application attacks account for over 50% of all incidents of breaches. When we thought about 2020, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under system intrusion). What did “the internet” think was causing breaches in 2020?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

A phishing campaign that Microsoft security researchers have been tracking for about a year highlights not only the ongoing success of social engineering efforts by hackers to compromise systems, but also the extent to which the bad actors will go to cover their tracks while stealing user credentials. Invoice-Themed Lures.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. So did the 2020 Twitter hack.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Twitter released more details about its security incident that targeted 130 famous Twitter accounts. Even the title of SecureWorld's first story about the incident had questions: "Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?". Spear phishing: what security experts are saying.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. This rapid growth owes a lot to the surge in mobile gaming and focus on social interaction during the pandemic. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 Methodology.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Approximately 83 percent of organizations said they faced a successful phishing attempt in 2021, up from 57 percent in 2020. This guide breaks down the different types of phishing attacks and provides examples to help organizations better prepare their staff to deal with them. What is Phishing? Spear Phishing.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad. A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

This type of targeted phishing or whaling (executive-level) attack tricks email recipients into believing someone they know and trust is asking them to carry out a specific financial task. The CFO commonly carries out such tasks and arranges a wire transfer using the account information provided on the invoice. Scenario 2. Scenario 3.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a notification warning of ongoing vishing attacks attempting to steal corporate accounts. ” Once gained access to the network, crooks expand their network access, for example, escalating privileges of the compromised employees’ accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Phishing scammers love well known brand names, because people trust them, and their email designs are easy to rip off. Google searches for DocuSign almost doubled during March 2020, and stayed there, as so many people around the world started working from home. We’ve included some examples of DocuSign phishing campaigns below.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait. Others offered the coveted Green Pass without vaccination.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. The subject of investments gained significant relevance in 2021, with banks and other organizations actively promoting investment and brokerage accounts. Trends of the year.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Phishing attacks have steadily been on the rise, and according to Proofpoint's 2021 State of the Phish Report , over half of all participants reported receiving a successful phishing attack in 2020. Criminals use departmental reputation to trick users into trusting phishing lures.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

companies as a primary target of a new phishing scheme. Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The company could not be certain, however, if the V4 phishing kit was involved.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yandex, a European multinational technology firm best known for being the most-used search engine in Russia, has revealed it had a security breach, leading to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email accounts. The post Yandex sysadmin caught selling access to email accounts appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Crooks increasingly often use legitimate services such as Google Forms and Telegram to obtain user data stolen on phishing websites. Last year, Group-IB identified phishing kits targeting over 260 unique brands. Last year, Group-IB identified phishing kits targeting over 260 unique brands.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

These reports were released either in the second half of 2020 or during the first few months of 2021. In the UK, four out of ten businesses (40%) and 25% of charities report having cyber security breaches or attacks in 2020. In Singapore, cybercrimes accounted for 43% of overall crimes. This is the most widely evident finding.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Here is the report's opening paragraph: "In 2020, while the American public was focused on protecting our families from a global pandemic and helping others in need, cyber criminals took advantage of an opportunity to profit from our dependence on technology to go on an Internet crime spree. Business Email Compromise 2020.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

This means companies have to be proactive and instill the right habits, which often means resisting the bad habits that lead to millions of successful cyberattacks every year – from the use of generic and easy-to-crack account credentials to the willingness to click on suspicious links and attachments in emails from untrusted sources.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

In Q2 2021, corporate accounts continued to be one of the most tempting targets for cybercriminals. A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. Statistics: phishing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2023

All the ministers and government employees working in the UK were issued a warning when their official contact details were publicly available online until March 2020.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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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. In their 2022 report, System Intrusion took the lead, accounting for 40% of all breach events. phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

In March 2020, nation-state hackers believed to be from Russia compromised a DLL file linked to a software update for the Orion platform by SolarWinds. The attack wasn’t discovered until December 2020. On 14th August 2019, the auto parts supplier was tricked into making a large fund transfer into the hackers’ bank account.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock. And that was from just a few minutes of searching.

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