NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s time to go back to the basics, and revisit the most common vulnerabilities across attack surfaces according to NetSPI’s 2023 Offensive Security Vision Report. Here are the six spookiest vulnerabilities of 2023 and their tips for remeidation. Here are the six spookiest vulnerabilities of 2023 and their tips for remeidation.

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Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

billion by 2023. Each day people post a plethora of information to social media platforms, giving bad actors plenty of opportunity to steal personal data. Beware of social engineering attacks Understanding the dangers of phishing schemes and other internet scams help you to know what the criminals are looking for.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

We spoke with our blog volunteers to get their insights into what best practices their companies are following, along with how you can get on a path to better identity management. Why is identity management and security important in 2023? “In The dangers of improper management of digital identities are at an all-time high.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. What Can We Expect in 2023? It’s not likely to stop there.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Introduction There has been a lot of news around the recent Cisco IOS XE vulnerabilities CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-2073. The post Cisco IOS XE CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273: WebUI Internals, Patch Diffs, and Theory Crafting appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2024

2023 we released an advisory for CVE-2023-39143, a critical vulnerability that affects Windows installs of the PaperCut NG/MF print management software. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability […] The post Writeup for CVE-2023-39143: PaperCut WebDAV Vulnerability appeared first on Horizon3.ai. Introduction Back in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

MAY 21, 2023

We’re Midway into 2023, and the threat landscape is evolving with new variants of viruses and malware that. The post The Threat Landscape: Emerging Viruses and Malware to Watch Out For in 2023 appeared first on Quick Heal Blog.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2024

are vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2023-43208. The post Writeup for CVE-2023-43208: NextGen Mirth Connect Pre-Auth RCE appeared first on Horizon3.ai. The post Writeup for CVE-2023-43208: NextGen Mirth Connect Pre-Auth RCE appeared first on Security Boulevard. Versions prior to 4.4.1

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

A recent study found only 27% of charities undertook risk assessments in 2023 and only 11% said they reviewed risks posed by suppliers. In a 2023 survey, 30% of CISOs named insider threats one of the biggest cybersecurity threats for the year. Many nonprofits are exposed to potential daily threats and don’t even know it.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. Image credit: Amitai Cohen of Wiz. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 23, 2023

Introduction Veeam has recently released an advisory for CVE-2023-27532 for Veeam Backup and Replication which allows an unauthenticated user with access to the Veeam backup service (TCP 9401 by default) to request cleartext credentials. The post Veeam Backup and Replication CVE-2023-27532 Deep Dive appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 24, 2023

Overview On 8 March 2023, PaperCut released new versions for their enterprise print management software, which included patches for two vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-27350 and CVE-2023-27351. PaperCut also details in this advisory […] The post PaperCut CVE-2023-27350 Deep Dive and Indicators of Compromise appeared first on Horizon3.ai.

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. Sign up here The post Security Roundup May 2023 appeared first on BH Consulting. MORE Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Phishing vs. Vishing “While email may still be the most common mechanism for social engineering, we increasingly see attacks via social media, platforms such as WhatsApp, physical compromise, snail mail, and phone calls,” says ethical hacker FC in a blog.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2023

CVE-2022-31704: VMware vRealize Log Insight broken access control Vulnerability CVE-2022-31711: VMware vRealize […] The post VMware vRealize Log Insight VMSA-2023-0001 IOCs appeared first on Horizon3.ai. The post VMware vRealize Log Insight VMSA-2023-0001 IOCs appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

billion work hours in 2023 and helped raise customer satisfaction to 69% for $0.50 Malicious intent or manipulation: AI chatbots can be exploited to spread misinformation, execute social engineering attacks or launch phishing. Such manipulation can harm user trust, tarnish brand reputation and have broader social consequences.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Romance Scams on and after the Valentines Day 2023 are common. Non-Profit Better Business Bureau aka BBB also published a blog post on this note and asked technologists, politicians, CEOs and CTOs of companies and heads of government agencies to be aware of romance scams spread across many social media platforms.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2023

During this past year, we have seen an increase in the use of malicious ads (malvertising) and specifically those via search engines, to drop malware targeting businesses. In fact, browser-based attacks overall have been a lot more common if we include social engineering campaigns.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." As 23andMe says in its own blog post, "Since 2019 we’ve offered and encouraged users to use multi-factor authentication."

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Did you know that 95% of youth today report using social media ? Forty percent of 8 to 12-year-olds use social media, reports the 2023 Social Media and Youth Mental Health – The U.S. Keep in mind that social media is not inherently good or bad. Written by: Shelby Dacko Human Risk Analyst at Social-Engineer, LLC

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

This is what I’ll be delving into in this blog, where I’ll be exploring how these two fields are intersecting and what that means for our digital landscape. According to research, the market is expected to reach $102,78 billion by 2032 , seeing a CAGR of 19.43% between 2023 and 2032.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing (QR Code phishing) and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. Currently, most initial access attempts are carried out with social engineering, commonly phishing. Why is that?

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BH Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

Valerie Lyons BH Consulting’s Chief Operations Officer and a Senior Cybersecurity and Data Protection Consultant, Dr. Valerie Lyons is a published author of ‘The Privacy Leader Compass’, which in just a few short weeks at the end of 2023, became the year’s bestselling title in its category.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It begins: Statement on MGM Resorts International: Setting the record straight 9/14/2023, 7:46:49 PM We have made multiple attempts to reach out to MGM Resorts International, "MGM". Due to their network engineers' lack of understanding of how the network functions, network access was problematic on Saturday.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

An MFA fatigue attack, aka MFA bombing or MFA spamming, is a social engineering strategy where attackers repeatedly trigger second-factor authentication requests. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that, based on Microsoft's studies, your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Fairly simple and devoid of software or social engineering tricks, scams like these typically target non-technical users. As is the case with hot wallets, scammers use social engineering techniques to get to users’ funds. This is called a Punycode phishing attack. ripple.com.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In late March 2023, 3CX disclosed that its desktop applications for both Windows and macOS were compromised with malicious code that gave attackers the ability to download and run code on all machines where the app was installed. Microsoft Corp.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2023

However, organizations in 2023 know one crucial area to spend money n is cybersecurity. Threat actors will still use social engineering tactics like phishing or ransomware to target businesses, steal data and earn a significant payday. Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, intense and sophisticated than ever.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Although IBM hopes to make a 1,000-qubit machine by 2023, widespread adoption of quantum computing is still decades away. The power of quantum computing brings security complexities that we are only beginning to understand. Even now, our cybersecurity climate is getting hotter.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 8, 2024

AT-2 (3) (Social Engineering and Mining): This control now requires literacy training on social engineering and social mining at least annually.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2023

Pairing plan 2023 is THE critical year. The key need at the moment are professionals who do social engineering, particularly with simulated phishing skills (and ideally with Gophish experience). Island Academy’s founder, Bernadette Sherman, has been hugely supportive from the start. How can you help?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2023

Introduction On January 10, 2023, ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966 (discovered by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security) affecting a wide range of products. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain remote code execution by issuing a HTTP POST request containing a malicious SAML response.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

madhav Tue, 04/04/2023 - 07:04 During WWII, the US Office of War Information created posters encouraging people to avoid careless talk. Fast forward to 2023, and this adage finds new meaning in the context of generative AI tools, like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot. The message was, “Loose lips sink ships."

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