SecureList

JULY 21, 2021

This article contains some analytical findings from Managed Detection and Response (MDR) operations during Q4 2020. In Q4 2020, the average number of collected raw events from one host was around 15 000. Social engineering. What is Kaspersky MDR. Data processing pipeline and security operations. DDOS/DOS with impact.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. .

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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. Open our letter at your email.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

“In mid-July 2020, cybercriminals started a vishing campaign—gaining access to employee tools at multiple companies with indiscriminate targeting — with the end goal of monetizing the access.” Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

According to the report , in 2020 the IC3 received 19,369 business email compromise (BEC) / email account compromise (EAC) complaints “with adjusted losses of over $1.8 million in 2020. Losses registered in 2020 totaled $4.2 On the ransomware front, the IC3 received 2,474 complaints with adjusted losses of over $29.1

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

The CFO commonly carries out such tasks and arranges a wire transfer using the account information provided on the invoice. In actuality, the request is coming from a BEC fraud ring, and the payment details direct the funds to an account controlled by the attackers. billion in annual losses during 2020, resulting from 19,369 incidents.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Details are in that the info belongs to all those customers who booked their orders on the platform from the past few years(say between Nov’18 to Oct’2020) and might include sensitive details of half of the affected consumers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In many cases, the phony profiles spoofed chief information security officers at major corporations , and some attracted quite a few connections before their accounts were terminated. which owns LinkedIn, said in September 2022 that it had detected a wide range of social engineering campaigns using a proliferation of phony LinkedIn accounts.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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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. The PMI portion forms part of each new meeting URL created by that account, such as: zoom.us/j/5551112222

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA)—working alongside the US Secret Service, Homeland Security, the FBI, Europol, and the District Attorney’s Office of Santa Clara California—spearheaded the arrest of eight British citizens in the UK and Scotland, aged between 18 to 26, for a string of SIM swapping attacks that occurred in 2020.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2020 alone, we’ve seen ransomware attacks bring the operations of international corporations and high-powered law firms to a standstill. Since email addresses and phone numbers are sensitive personal information that can be used in social engineering, you may want to consider the adoption of these email security tips.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 3, 2021

According to Forbes , Cyber intelligence firm CYFIRMA, revealed cyberthreats related to coronavirus shot up 600% from February to March of 2020. However, they often overlook the role of social engineering in cyber security. Bad actors manipulate these following 4 emotions the most in social engineering attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“We’re tracking an active credential phishing attack targeting enterprises that uses multiple sophisticated methods for defense evasion and social engineering,” reads a message published by Microsoft via Twitter. pic.twitter.com/YpUVEfmlUH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The nation-state group is using the compromised accounts to target contacts in the victims’ address books. reads a translation of the message.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The researchers also pointed out that centralized exchanges were the target of choice of the group prior to 2020. The experts also highlighted that centralized exchanges are more exposed to social engineering attacks. The Stake.com and CoinEx exploits account for 78% of September’s total.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimusky’s recent activities that provided information on their TTPs and infrastructure. The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

CVE-2019-8605 internally referred to as SockPort2 and publicly known as SockPuppet CVE-2020-3837 internally referred to and publicly known as TimeWaste. CVE-2020-9907 internally referred to as AveCesare. Google also pulled the plug on Hermit’s Firebase account, which it uses to communicate with its C2.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Email spoofing is a common tactic hackers use in phishing and social engineering attacks. Hackers frequently use email spoofing in tandem with other social engineering techniques to impersonate an official source, whether it’s a colleague, partner, or competitor.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

The tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of this threat actor have a high overlap with a previous voicemail campaign that ThreatLabz analyzed in July 2020. Voicemail-themed phishing campaigns continue to be a successful social engineering theme used by this threat actor to lure victims in opening a malicious attachment.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

It’s not every day you manage to compromise an account with access to so much data. This included resetting the employee’s password for the email account where unauthorized activity was detected. Maybe they dredged up specific background information on the affected employee via social networking, LinkedIn, or even the company website.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The danger zone If you made an online purchase from some of the companies that are owned by JD Sports between November 2018 and October 2020, your data may have been accessed by individuals who didn't have permission to do so. JD Sports claims that the affected data was "limited" and did not include credit card details.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

CEO Colin Bastable at RSA 2020. This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. BEC campaigns accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses reported to the FBI over a three year period.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations. Phishing, social engineering, and credential stuffing are often the end result. Data for sale is not unusual.

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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?". But now, Twitter finally has given us some answers.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 16, 2021

consumers experienced identity theft between 2019 and 2020. the unauthorized use of one’s identity to apply for an account), and 38% experienced account takeover (i.e., unauthorized access to a consumer’s existing account). Developed by Aite Group and underwritten by GIACT, the study found that 47% of U.S.

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