Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2022

Phishing, social engineering, and credential stuffing are often the end result. Some of their findings: Late 2020 : 2,000 unique username/password.edu combinations were up for sale on the dark web. Implement user training to reduce the risk of phishing and social engineering. Data for sale is not unusual.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. For example, as many companies continue to allow employees to work remotely, VPNs are becoming more and more crucial.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vishing (also known as voice phishing) is a social engineering attack technique where attackers impersonate a trusted entity during a voice call in an attempt to trick victims into providing sensitive information. Then the attackers used a chatroom messaging service to conduct a phishing attack against this employee.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its #StopRansomware guide to account for the fact that ransomware actors have accelerated their tactics and techniques since the original guide was released in September of 2020. Anomalous VPN device logins or other suspicious logins. Drive-by-downloads.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They would just keep jamming a few individuals to get [remote] access, read some onboarding documents, enroll a new 2FA [two-factor authentication method] and exfiltrate code or secrets, like a smash-and-grab,” the CXO said. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft says LAPSUS$ — which it boringly calls “ DEV-0537 ” — mostly gains illicit access to targets via “social engineering.” ” This involves bribing or tricking employees at the target organization or at its myriad partners, such as customer support call centers and help desks.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2021

With an estimated 900% increase in ransomware attacks during the first half of 2020 alone, hackers are stepping up their game to infiltrate vulnerable systems. As technology changes, so do the phishing and social engineering methods of scammers and hackers. Always use a virtual private network (VPN).

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When organizations started to embark on zero trust security back in 2020, it was in response to a dramatic and unforeseen change – the public health crisis. Make it easy for users to strongly authenticate – on managed and unmanaged devices, and whether they’re employees or contractors (e.g. What does that journey look like?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN). White is viewing the page via a T-Mobile employee’s virtual machine. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Experts pointed out that Iranian threat actors operators are more patient and persistent with their social engineering campaigns, however, they continue to conduct aggressive brute force attacks on their targets. Microsoft added that password spray attacks on Office 365 accounts with multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled failed.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. A 2020 report found that 20 percent of organizations experienced a security breach due to remote work.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Thu, 10/29/2020 - 05:17. As mentioned in my colleague Charles Goldberg’s blog post earlier this year, “ Stop Ransomware in its Tracks with Strong Data Security ,” ransomware attacks targeting enterprises in a variety of sectors have skyrocketed during the first half of 2020. From there on, their job is business as usual.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

The truth is that solutions like single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) can spell disaster if initial access is all a malicious actor needs to traverse the network’s resources. Whether it’s a VPN , firewall , or remote access server, unauthorized entry via network gateways is a problem.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In late 2021, we first documented “Owowa”, a malicious IIS backdoor module that had been deployed primarily in Asia since 2020. The artefacts we collected in this investigation indicate that the operation may have been active for several years, dating back to at least 2020 or earlier.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. Strong leadership is especially needed in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic has created a host of new challenges for IT and cybersecurity.

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