SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the scramble for cryptocurrency investment opportunities, we believe that cybercriminals will take advantage of fabricating and selling rogue devices with backdoors, followed by social engineering campaigns and other methods to steal victims’ financial assets. Mobile banking Trojans on the rise.

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Cryptocurrency Mobile Ransomware Banking 106

eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) is a relatively new IT security technology that can automatically spot vulnerabilities in an organization’s cyber defenses, akin to continuous, automated penetration testing. Penetration Testing. CyCognito is committed to exposing shadow risk and bringing advanced threats into view.

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Penetration Testing Risk Technology Marketing 67

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. Cobalt Strike is a commercial penetration testing software suite. Malvertising.

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Ransomware Backups Social Engineering Accountability 71

SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While investigating the artefacts of a supply-chain attack on an Asian government Certification Authority’s website, we discovered a Trojanized package that dates back to June 2020. Further analysis revealed that this escalation of privilege (EoP) exploit had potentially been used in the wild since at least November 2020.

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Malware Mobile Spyware Surveillance 138

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Phishing attack prevention : There are bots and automated call centers that pretend to be human; ML solutions such as natural language processing (NLP) and Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) help prove whether users are human or a machine, in turn detecting potential phishing attacks.

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Cybersecurity Education Artificial Intelligence Marketing 52

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. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.”

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

McKinsey & Company raised the alarm in 2020. Targeted attacks like these, plus social engineering, specifically phishing – where attackers pose as a trusted source, prey on human vulnerability, and use email or malicious websites to gain the information they want – are effective but they aren’t the only problem. Sadly, yes.

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CISO Mobile Technology Risk 130

SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Two men enter the booth of Lockheed Martin, the biggest defense company in the world, during the Singapore Airshow February 9, 2020 in Singapore.

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Government Media Penetration Testing Social Engineering 60

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2023

Impacket v0.9.22 - Copyright 2020 SecureAuth Corporation Password: [proxychains] Strict chain. Configure /etc/proxychains4.conf conf [proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.4 4 [proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.14 [proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.14 [proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.14

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Authentication Accountability Penetration Testing Software 52

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

— Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. link] pic.twitter.com/cVIyB44o6q — Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) June 22, 2020.

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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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Ransomware Social Engineering Phishing Engineering 133

SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

ReconHellcat is a little-known threat actor that was spotted publicly in 2020. During 2020 and 2021, we detected a new ShadowPad loader module, dubbed ShadowShredder, used against critical infrastructure across multiple countries, including but not limited to India, China, Canada, Afghanistan and Ukraine.

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Malware Government Surveillance Spyware 145

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Then 2020 2021 The first part of 2022 happened, ransomware went wild and so many of the cyber insurance companies they were reading were against the ropes and struggling because the payouts were written against what were initially rather loose policies. GRAY: The Internet is a penetration test. It started off pretty easy to get.

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Internet Internet Insurance Cyber Insurance 40

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Coveware reported earlier this year the average downtime for ransomware victims jumped from 15 days in 2019 to 21 days in 2020. Like any malware, ransomware enters the network through attack vectors like phishing emails , social engineering , software and remote desktop protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities, and malicious websites.

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Backups Ransomware Encryption Malware 120

SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

We additionally observed the threat actor behind this backdoor launching penetration testing tools, such as Ligolo-ng, Inveigh and Impacket. Analysis of this backdoor revealed that couldcollect reconnaissance data on the infected machine, perform file system operations and inject various payloads.

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