Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

New AI Scams to Look Out For in 2024 IdentityIQ Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly reshaped many aspects of everyday life. Here are three new AI scams to look out for in 2024 as well as some tips to help protect yourself and stay prepared for the explosive development of AI.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

For that reason, SIM swapping can be used to get around two-factor authentication (2FA) codes sent by SMS message. 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. Sentencing is scheduled to take place on July 16, 2024.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

9, 2024, U.S. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. 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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

28, 2023 – AppDirect , the world’s leading B2B subscription commerce platform, today released key findings from its IT Business Leaders 2024 Outlook Report. Best-in-class training, with testing and regular retraining and testing, will go a long way to mitigate the risks of social engineering security breaches.”

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

But there are some good reasons for this trend: The global gaming market is booming—and is expected to reach $219 billion by 2024. Phishing and social engineering. Gaming is now an online social activity. If possible, enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on your gaming accounts as well. Account takeovers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2024

As revealed in our 2024 ThreatDown State of Malware report, a full 11% of all detections recorded by Malwarebytes on Mac computers in 2023 were for different variants of malware—the catch-all term that cybersecurity researchers use to refer to ransomware, trojans, info stealers, worms, viruses, and more. There pretty much always has been.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? In 2024, we will see more targeted, sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attacks, including VIP impersonation, vendor email compromise (VEC), and autonomous agents used for malicious purposes. The comments we received were uniformly insightful and helpful.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 20, 2024

Implement Multi-Factor Authentication Multi-factor authentication (MFA) requires multiple verification methods to access an account online, significantly enhancing protection. In addition, you can regularly update them on the latest threats and encourage participation by explaining the personal benefits of good cybersecurity habits.

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SecureList

MAY 7, 2024

Additionally, we take a close look at several noteworthy vulnerabilities discovered in Q1 2024. The number of newly registered CVEs, 2019 — 2024. The decline in 2024 is due to data being available for Q1 only ( download ) As the chart illustrates, the number of new vulnerabilities has been steadily increasing year over year.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2024

pic.twitter.com/6hFcUsaGtZ — Signum Capital (@Signum_Capital) January 22, 2024 The criminals reach out to targets by DM on Telegram and ask if they have an interest in hearing more about the opportunity in a call or meeting. A fake account pretending to be one of our team members is going around DM-ing people on Telegram.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Various forms of AI, such as machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLM), already dominated headlines throughout 2023 and will continue to present both overhyped possibilities and realized potential in 2024. In 2024, AI poisoning attacks will become the new software supply chain attacks.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

Australia has also unveiled a national strategy for digital identity resilience, aiming for mainstream use in 2024. We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks. This is no longer adequate in 2024.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. Fake Louis Vuitton store on Instagram As new and more secure, authentication technologies appear, scammers find ways to evade these, too. That means passkeys are of no use to phishers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Besides Artificial Intelligence to scale operations, in a novel approach to circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA), the perpetrators crafted malicious Android code that mimics official mobile banking applications. Utilizing AI-driven bots for advanced social engineering techniques.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 15, 2024

We’ve heard some version of this phrase many times over, whether it pertains to a bad actor physically breaking into a secured building or socially engineering an unsuspecting victim to provide access to protected information. “The best way to break in is through the front door.” a password) and something you have (i.e.,

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A team of hackers can, say, boost their own info-stealing websites through Google search results, providing a veneer of authenticity to their malicious intent. With many, many, many more shows scheduled (the latest of which is in December 2024), stay alert. But the tech support scam held up by “Wooflocker” is different.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of the applications that historically integrated with the on-premise corporate directory for Single Sign-On will now require manual, password-based authentication, increasing the burden on users and also further extending the attack surface for malicious actors. AI will dominate the cyber landscape in 2024 in ways few people can imagine.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, certain network requests piqued our interest: login_user request to get access_token with a correct password The request in the screenshot above retrieves an access token to the API based on the following authentication data: username, password and key. In fact, a valid token is returned even if we provide incorrect credentials.

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SecureList

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security feature we have come to expect as standard by 2024. An OTP bot is a piece of software programmed to intercept OTPs with the help of social engineering. In May 2024, our products prevented 69,984 attempts at visiting sites generated by this type of phishing kits.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

The recent LockBit takedown and custom LockBit builds In February 2024, the international law enforcement task force Operation Cronos gained visibility into LockBit’s operations after taking the group down. Then, the adversary generated custom ransomware using the privileged account they had access to.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

While multi-factor authentication (MFA) generally protects against common methods of gaining unauthorized account access, not all multi-factor authentication methods can defend against sophisticated attacks. Authentication establishes confidence that the claimant has possession of one or more authenticators bound to the credential.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

2024 looks like it will only increase the number of affected individuals considering the scale of ransomware attacks from the first half of the year in the USA, Canada, and Australia. million for the first three quarters of FY 2024. Ascension might try to blame financial troubles for lack of preparation. Ascension lost $2.66

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 20, 2024 Whoa - that's an 87% "dodgy AF" vote from over 4,000 respondents so yeah, that's pretty emphatic. Urgency is a core tenet of social engineering as it encourages people to act without properly thinking it though. Parcel or phish? Ah, so it's urgent is it?

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Cyberattacks and data breaches will continue to arise because of credential theft, social engineering (phishing, smishing, vishing etc), vulnerabilities in third party software and supply chain processes, forged or stolen machine identities, and misconfigured cloud computing. Here are my predictions for 2023. Types of attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Let's delve into the rewind of 2023, exploring five influential trends and threats that molded the cyberthreat landscape and are poised to resonate throughout enterprises in 2024.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

By 1999, its successor – the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol – offered a more robust cryptographic protocol across technical components like cipher suites, record protocol, message authentication , and handshake process. HTTP over SSL or HTTP over TLS, dubbed HTTPS, wasn’t immediately adopted by the masses. Uses of Encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is done by enforcing multi-factor authentication at the network layer.”. They generally don’t detect and stop threats that have entered a network via social engineering , insider threats, email, or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Jump to: What is a network firewall? Next-generation firewalls. Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And on top of that, social engineering woes are growing, that's becoming more and more of fraudulent payments, just all these other things. You have to show to me that you're using multi factor authentication that you're doing vulnerability scanning and mitigation that you're harming your niche. It's not really a dip.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. MFA bombing or MFA fatigue attacks demonstrate the limitations of simple two-factor or multi-factor authentication.

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