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 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. Connect to a secure network and use a company-issued Virtual Private Network (VPN). Ensure software and security settings are up to date.

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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

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. . Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Mandiant found the earliest evidence of compromise uncovered within 3CX’s network was through the VPN using the employee’s corporate credentials, two days after the employee’s personal computer was compromised. The double supply chain compromise that led to malware being pushed out to some 3CX customers. Image: Mandiant.

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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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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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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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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). T-Mobile currently has approximately 75,000 employees worldwide.

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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. These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. IoT Devices.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Example 2: Using a VPN. A lot of people are confused about VPNs. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. This is true. So, probably not a win.

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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. Even the strongest passwords can be compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

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. Like in the case of SolarWinds in 2020, masked threat actors aren’t afraid to linger for months during reconnaissance.

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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. Enable encryption or use a VPN so that no one can intercept the data traveling through your network while you interact with your database.

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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. This made zero trust access a ‘must have’ exercise just to keep businesses operational. Securing remote user access became the first use case for adopting zero trust security principles.

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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. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This email contained a link leading to a password-protected archive hosted on Google Drive, which represented the first stage of the infection – a.NET binary that was obfuscated and trying to pass itself off as an OpenVPN binary, when in fact it was a malware loader.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In 2020, we predicted that governments would adopt a “name and shame” strategy to draw attention to the activities of hostile APT groups, a trend that has evolved even more in the last year. When we wrote this prediction, we were mainly thinking about a continuation of all the malicious activities targeting VPN appliances.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. Hacked social media accounts’ prices are decreasing across all platforms. If you must log in to an account of any kind while on public WiFi, use a VPN for encrypting all your internet traffic. Use good password practices. Do not use the same password for several accounts. Hackers love it.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It provides victims with a VPN connection that can be used to browse these resources. Based on our telemetry, the January 2021 indicators do not necessarily represent new intrusions or new malware samples, as the detections were relatively old (between 2018 and 2020), and the Explosive RAT samples did not contain significant modifications.

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