Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. He will also earn credit for the 229 days that he has already spent in jail.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 26, 2021

An evolving phishing campaign observed at least since May 2020 has been found to target high-ranking company executives across manufacturing, real estate, finance, government, and technological sectors with the goal of obtaining sensitive information.

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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. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “At this moment in time, it looks like no emails, passwords, or any personal data were accessed, but we do suggest resetting your password and activate 2FA security,” the company wrote in a blog post. This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

billion in 2020. “For decades, West African scammers, primarily located in Nigeria, have perfected the use of social engineering in cybercrime activity.” “You can provide us accounting data for the access to any company, for example, login and password to RDP, VPN, corporate email, etc. Image: FBI.

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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. Meanwhile, a quarter report that they’ve used generic passwords like “password” and “ABC123.”All

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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 Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Don’t make passwords easy to guess. Watch what you post on social media; cybercriminals often use them to gather Personal Identifying Information (PII) and corporate information. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 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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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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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. Set random passwords to generate 10-character alphanumeric passwords. If using personal passwords, utilize complex rotating passwords of varying lengths. Windows 10).

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches. Some malware attacks install tools like keyloggers to capture the keystrokes for stealing passwords or other sensitive information. Which are the most common causes of a Data Breach and how to prevent It?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Password Attacks Password attacks involve guessing or cracking passwords to gain access to systems.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

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. This attack may reveal itself to be something as basic as an easy to guess password.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This can be done if you have someone’s valid Social Security number, complete name, birth date, and other personal details that are usually not very difficult to learn (from the person’s social media channels most likely). 2: Use Strong Passwords. These are examples of weak passwords that will put your accounts at risk.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The FBI recently published a warning stating that ransomware gang OnePercent Group has been attacking companies in the US since November 2020. This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

The decrypted icon files revealed the location of the malware’s control server, which was then queried for a third stage of the malware compromise — a password stealing program dubbed ICONICSTEALER. The double supply chain compromise that led to malware being pushed out to some 3CX customers. Image: Mandiant. Microsoft Corp.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

2020 was a wake-up call for more than healthcare pandemic preparedness. It also exposed some huge security and privacy vulnerabilities, which many cybercrooks have exploited thousands of times throughout 2020 for remote workers. Training must be more frequent and go beyond covering phishing and passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Using a WordPress flaw (File-Manager plugin–CVE-2020-25213) to leverage Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) and attack companies’ Domain Controllers. Recently, a critical vulnerability called Zerologon – CVE-2020-1472 – has become a trending subject around the globe. w4fz5uck5) September 8, 2020. Figure 2: PoC – CVE-2020-25213.

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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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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. The affected data is limited.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. A 21 year old man named David Smith, from Connecticut, allegedly figured out a way to extract large quantities of cash from drivers with a scam stretching back to 2020.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2020, an individual using the handle Virtrux claimed there were "thousands of open access methods to both the US and Canadian Emergency Alert Systems". From there, the attacker was able to grab service/default passwords via a splash of social engineering. — virtrux (j3ws3r) (@virtrux) November 23, 2020.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Many of our attendees have shared some laugh-out-loud jokes on our social wall within our conferences throughout the year. Top cyber jokes of 2020. I needed a password eight characters long so I picked SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarves. Normal people use their children's names to set their email passwords. Social engineers!

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

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. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Social Tactics. billion in reported losses. costing an estimated $18.88

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This is a huge leak even by today’s standards, with an average of 7 million records being exposed daily in 2020. . They can then conduct elaborate phishing and social engineering attacks to gain access to the victims’ accounts on other digital services such as entertainment and shopping platforms or even online banking.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The pandemic saw a surge in sextortion cases in 2020. That this simple social engineering tactic works is evident from countless email campaigns over several years, targeting users of both PC and Mac. In addition, we suggest you secure your online accounts using two-factor authentication (2FA) and a password manager.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. Can’t come up with a strong password? Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. What were we looking at?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

In fact, nearly one-third (28%) of data breaches in 2020 involved small businesses, according to the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – 70% of which were perpetrated by external actors. Fiction: Strong passwords are enough. FACT: Phishing and social engineering are the number one attack vector for SMBs.

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