SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

Black Hat 2022 USA Briefings wrapped up this past week, along with its sister conference DEF CON 30. Fast forward to 2022 and Kim makes mention of the technical debt leading to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware fiasco that led to an overwhelming of the east coast fuel supply chain. Many of the talks were great, fresh content.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

This month’s relatively light patch load has another added bonus for system administrators everywhere: It appears to be the first Patch Tuesday since March 2022 that isn’t marred by the active exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s products. Microsoft Corp.

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Social Engineering System Administration Authentication Internet 216

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Here are five steps to preserve health care data security in 2022. Social engineering avoidance should be part of all workers’ onboarding processes. Training should cover best practices like using multifactor authentication and strong, unique passwords. Health Care Data Security Is Essential in 2022.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Fake donation sites started popping up after the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2022, pretending to accept money as aid to Ukraine. The pandemic The COVID-19 theme had lost relevance by late 2022 as the pandemic restrictions had been lifted in most countries. “Promotional campaigns by major banks” were a popular bait in 2022.

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NopSec

AUGUST 30, 2022

The August 2022 Patch Now Award * this month goes to ManageEngine, which is vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability. CVE – CVE-2022-2590 Shmem Cow Overview : Linux kernel versions greater than v5.16 Threat actors obtain initial access by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Sporting events, like the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 (Qatar 2022 World Cup), attract massive attention from every corner of the world. After triaging said incidents to remove false positives, we collected the true positive incidents to analyze them and better comprehend how attackers were targeting the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future attacks to impersonate valid users. Many users of the customer support system are Okta administrators.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers. Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In mid-June 2022, a flood of SMS phishing messages began targeting employees at commercial staffing firms that provide customer support and outsourcing to thousands of companies. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Twilio suffered another brief security incident in June 2022, the attack was conducted by the same threat actor of the August hack. “Our investigation also led us to conclude that the same malicious actors likely were responsible for a brief security incident that occurred on June 29, 2022. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In early September, Okta warned customers of social engineering attacks carried out in recent weeks by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. The attacks targeted IT service desk staff to trick them into resetting all multi-factor authentication (MFA) factors enrolled by highly privileged users.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 6, 2022

In March 2022, we published a month-long survey asking the community to react to various feature requests and new ideas so we could get a sense of what to prioritize in the coming year. We took the survey responses and converted the most popular features into a 2022 road map. Easy authentication with JSON Web Tokens.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The gaming industry went into full gear during the pandemic, as many people took up online gaming as their new hobby to escape the socially-distanced reality. According to the analytical agency Newzoo, in 2022, the global gaming market will exceed $ 200 billion , with 3 billion players globally.

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Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 96

Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

I recently learned that you can coerce NTLM authentication from SCCM servers using any Windows SCCM client when automatic site-wide client push installation is enabled and NTLM has not been explicitly disabled. Next, we need to set up ntlmrelayx to capture and relay NTLM authentication received from our target computers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. Use multi-factor authentication for all accounts and login credentials to the extent possible.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Riding off the warm press that covered an eventful Summer 2022, in this series we explore the general state of cybersecurity in Australia and potential problem-solving measures—kicking things off with the third most common type of breach according to the OAIC: phishing. What is phishing? This is reflected in an average of 56.7%

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Based on recent cybercriminal activity, businesses should expect increased social engineering and train employees to recognize the signs of such attacks. And with new social engineering trends like “callback phishing” on the rise, it’s not just businesses that should be concerned.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future attacks to impersonate valid users. The company did not attribute the attack to a specific threat actor.

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Data breaches Social Engineering Accountability Authentication 121

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Last week we learned that ride-sharing giant Uber's defences had been unpicked by an attacker with a novel take on social engineering: Fatigue. “MFA fatigue”, sometimes referred to as “MFA push spam”, aims to overcome a form of multi-factor authentication people use to keep their accounts safe.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Navigating the internet in 2022 is more dangerous than ever for Australian netizens. Australian Mobile Cybersecurity in 2022. Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. How Can Social Engineering Affect the Current State of Security in Australia?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

increase in phishing attacks in 2022 compared to the previous year, a result of cybercriminals using increasingly sophisticated techniques to launch large-scale attacks. Education was the most targeted industry in 2022, with attacks increasing by 576%, while the retail and wholesale sector dropped by 67% from 2021.

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Phishing Social Engineering Education Retail 122

SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

million in 2022. PC malware The number of users affected by financial malware for PCs dropped by 11% from 2022. The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. million detections compared to 5.04 of attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Since Insikt Group’s initial tracking of the group in September 2022, we have observed BlueCharlie engage in several TTP shifts.” ” Since at least December 17, 2022, the group has used a new naming pattern for its domains containing keywords related to information technology and cryptocurrency. . com, storagecryptogate[.]com,

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Phishing Social Engineering Authentication Cryptocurrency 77

Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. Until a fully password-free environment is deployed, accepted, and adopted by all users, less secure methods of authentication will still be relied on.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

While multifactor authentication has historically been hailed as one of the most significant forms of defense against attacks that leverage compromised credentials, the reality is far from it.

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Authentication Social Engineering Engineering Mobile 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022, cybersecurity further became a top priority for businesses around the world following critical attacks on both the public and private sectors and of course, the use of cyber warfare as a Russian tactic in its invasion of Ukraine. By Steven Spadaccini, VP Threat Intelligence, SafeGuard Cyber.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

pic.twitter.com/BQSB2uV1JW — Life in DeFi (@lifeindefi) April 3, 2022. 1/ — Trezor (@Trezor) April 3, 2022. The company was the victim of a social engineering attack aimed at its employees. . On the surface it looks like a genuine message but I noticed it came from [link] and as such deleted it immediately.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers from Morphisec discovered a new, advanced information stealer, dubbed SYS01 stealer, that since November 2022 was employed in attacks aimed at critical government infrastructure employees, manufacturing companies, and other sectors. ” reads the analysis published by Morphisec.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Currently, most initial access attempts are carried out with social engineering, commonly phishing. According to the 2022 Verizon data breach incident report only 5% of data breaches investigated by them were caused by software vulnerabilities. To understand the attack you need understand the challenge that the attacker faces.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2022

Phishing, social engineering, and credential stuffing are often the end result. January 2022 : “Russian cyber criminal forums” were offering network and VPN credentials, both for sale or free to access. Sure enough, in 2022 we’ve seen colleges close down and data lost. Data for sale is not unusual.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. ” TMO UP!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2023

The first is CVE-2023-27350 which allows attackers to bypass the authentication required to utilize the Papercut NG 22.05 The second vulnerability, CVE-2022-47986, which affects the IBM Aspera Faspex File Exchange system allows attackers to perform remote code execution on the target devices. on affected endpoints.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Social engineering is a prerequisite to almost all cyberattacks. Hardware-based attacks require physical access to the target entity, and employee carelessness and negligence make social engineering the perfect tool to gain said access. It is unlikely one would question its integrity.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Understanding Romance Scams Romance scams involve fraudsters creating fake profiles on dating sites, social media platforms, or apps to establish relationships with victims, gain their trust, and eventually, scam them out of money. In 2022, nearly 70,000 people reported such scams, with losses totaling a staggering $1.3

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