Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2021

23, 2021 Twitter booted a gaggle of accounts from its platform, including those determined to be associated with the Russian government and the well-known disinformation machine Internet Research Agency (IRA). The post Twitter Removes Russian Disinformation Accounts appeared first on Security Boulevard. president, are banned.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2024

High-end APT groups perform highly interesting social engineering campaigns in order to penetrate well-protected targets. While this highly targeted and interactive social engineering approach might not be completely novel, it is extraordinary. It’s highly recommended reading. It’s highly recommended reading.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Email spoofing is a common tactic hackers use in phishing and social engineering attacks. How to identify a spoofed email How to prevent email spoofing in 2021 Email spoofing is a constantly evolving threat. Social engineering tactics usually include spear phishing or whaling. How to prevent email spoofing in 2021.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

Armed with an email and password—which are easily bought online— and the 2FA code, an attacker could take over the victim’s online accounts. SIM swapping can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier. Katz pleaded guilty before Chief U.S.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. Impersonators create fake social media accounts that include the names, images, logos, or other identifying information, of a person, brand, or organization. billion fake accounts in 2021.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

According to DoJ, from at least in or about 2016 through or about April 2021, Nasab and other co-conspirators carried out a coordinated multi-year campaign to breach computers worldwide. In one case, the hackers successfully compromised an administrator email account associated with a defense contractor. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Microsoft experts believe that the AiTM phishing campaign was used to target more than 10,000 organizations since September 2021. “By combining the two values, the succeeding phishing landing page automatically filled out the sign-in page with the user’s email address, thus enhancing its social engineering lure.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 13, 2021

A fair few cryptocurrency scams have been doing the rounds across 2021. One of the sneakiest ways to grab a code is to jump into customer support discussions on social media. Scammers set up fake customer support style accounts, then direct potential victims to phishing pages hosted elsewhere. Recovery code theft.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2022

million in 2021). The post Attackers Work Hard to Engineer Trust; SharePoint, OneDrive Accounts at Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard. In the first report, Trend Micro said it blocked more than 33.6 million cloud-based email threats last year, including a 138% uptick in phishing emails (16.5

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2022

According to Twitter , it’s supposed to let people know “that an account of public interest is authentic.” ” That’s great, so long as the account is authentic, but what if, one day, it suddenly isn’t? According to the compromised account’s bio, he is… Support Team Officer Patrick Lyons.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

The famous Mandiant 2023 M-Trends (NOT G-Trends, mind you…) report is out, and here are some of the things that I found to be surprising and NOT surprising :-) Mandiant M-Trends 2023 Detection by Source SURPRISING “Mandiant experts note a decrease in the percentage of global intrusions involving ransomware between 2021 and 2022. Good news?!]

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

The video game industry is soaring, not in the least thanks to the lockdowns, which forced people to look for new ways to entertain themselves and socialize. billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. billion in the first half of 2021.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In 2021: 56% of e-mails were spam. The subject of investments gained significant relevance in 2021, with banks and other organizations actively promoting investment and brokerage accounts. Online streaming of hyped film premieres and highly anticipated sports events was repeatedly used to lure users in 2021.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In Q3 2021 , online stores were in second place by share of recorded phishing attacks (20.63%). We analyzed the detections related to various online shopping platforms between January and September 2021; and the period from January to October 2021 for financial phishing. million in 2020 to 10 million in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

By all accounts, the most severe flaw addressed today is CVE-2022-21907, a critical, remote code execution flaw in the “ HTTP Protocol Stack.” “Exploitation would require social engineering to entice a victim to open an attachment or visit a malicious website,” he said. ” Quickly indeed. .

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the pandemic struck, online bad actors took it as an opportunity to double-down on their attacks through ransomware, malware, and social engineering. Meanwhile, greater reliance on mobile devices for everything from managing our bank accounts to checking credit scores leaves fintech users more at-risk than ever.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses. since Q3 of 2007. Business targets.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 3, 2021

However, they often overlook the role of social engineering in cyber security. Hackers use emotions as a social engineering tool, to persuade their victims to take an action they normally would not. Bad actors manipulate these following 4 emotions the most in social engineering attacks. Knowledge is power.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 14, 2020

One thing the cybersecurity experts at Webroot agree on is that work from home is here to stay for 2021, or at least it won’t recede to pre-pandemic levels in even the medium-term. David Dufour, VP of engineering, Carbonite + Webroot. Businesses will need to account for that. These all add their own challenges.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

CVE-2021-30883 internally referred to as Clicked2, marked as being exploited in-the-wild by Apple in October 2021. CVE-2021-30983 internally referred to as Clicked3, fixed by Apple in December 2021. Google also pulled the plug on Hermit’s Firebase account, which it uses to communicate with its C2.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. There were 304.7 Threat Traced to Nigeria.

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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. In November 2021, Mandiant Threat Intelligence researchers linked the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign (aka UNC1151) to the government of Belarus.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The phishing message was sent from a legitimate individual’s compromised email account. uk” domain, which was updated in April 2021. Using compromised email address: The email was sent from an individual’s compromised email account belonging to a French fire rescue department. The sender’s domain (sdis34[.]fr)

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. For example, from January to December 2021, Microsoft detected a jaw-dropping 25.6 billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. In July 2021, Twitter disclosed in its transparency report that only 2.5

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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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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The final serious problem is a CSRF flaw that enables an unauthenticated attacker to send a trackback on behalf of an authorised user, but effective exploitation requires social engineering. WordPress websites that support background updates automatically will receive a patch. Version 6.1, The post WordPress Security Update 6.0.3

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2022

They hijacked Terpin's phone number and transferred cryptocurrency worth millions from Terpin's crypto wallet to an account Truglia controls. All major US phone carriers also urge their clients to assign a PIN code to their accounts to prevent social engineering tactics geared towards customer support employees.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

Samples from the archive shared by the author include full names, email addresses, links to the users’ social media accounts, and other data points that users had publicly listed on their LinkedIn profiles. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

Coming back from the COVID hiatus, the conferences were enthusiastically full compared to the 2021 ghost town. She spoke about various voting count incidents and the lack of accountability in very specific incidents. The DEF CON theme was a “Hacker Homecoming”, and it really was a fun one.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The perceived threat of cyber risk to global business leaders peaked in 2021 (34%) and over the past two years, the risk perception has dropped (27%). For more information please go to: beazley.com Media contact: Craig Ingber, Account Manager, Omnia Paratus, T: 908-403-2191, craig@omniaparatus.com # # #

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

They've used these Twitter profiles for posting links to their blog, posting videos of their claimed exploits and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts that they control. Can security researchers be socially engineered? Google's TAG team discovery: cyberattack motive.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a recent post on its Facebook account, all of the corporation's public-facing applications have been back online since October 6, 2023, including "the website, Member Portal, eClaims for electronic submission of hospital claims, and EPRS for employer remittances." It was attacked on September 22, 2023.

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