SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

List of in-the-wild 0-days caught and reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years Social activity What never ceases to impress us is how much effort Lazarus APT puts into their social engineering campaigns. On February 20, 2024, the attackers began their campaign, advertising their game on X.

Engineering 145

Engineering Accountability Social Engineering Cryptocurrency 145

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next.   Recycled credentials leaked online from company A could be used to access your account from company B, for example.

Passwords 101

Passwords Data breaches Password Management Identity Theft 101

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address. In that same report, the FBI advises consumers to check the URL to make sure the site is authentic before clicking on an advertisement. com account[.]datedeath[.]com com account[.]turnkeycashsite[.]com

Phishing 103

Phishing Authentication Engineering Banking 103

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. Cloud services alerts increased by 20% due to rising cloud account usage, while malicious file alerts in phishing attacks remain high, exploiting users’ tendencies to open files.

Cyber Attacks 59

Cyber Attacks Phishing Ransomware Cyber Insurance 59

Zero Day

JULY 9, 2025

An incessant drumbeat of advice about how to choose and use strong passwords and how not to fall prey to social engineering attacks has done little to keep threat actors at bay.  Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use These days, relying parties have gotten much better about rejecting weak passwords.)

Passwords 84

Passwords Password Management Authentication Artificial Intelligence 84

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next.   Recycled credentials leaked online from company A could be used to access your account from company B, for example.

Passwords 106

Passwords Data breaches Password Management Identity Theft 106

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. Adding to this complexity, malefactors leverage the power of AI to carry out smarter attacks.

Authentication 62

Authentication Identity Theft Digital transformation Passwords 62

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The majority of the records were labelled as background checks which contained full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, employment history, family members, social media accounts, and criminal record history. SL Data Services markets itself as a provider of real estate information reports.

Social Engineering 100

Social Engineering Insurance Risk Advertising 100

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” These external users set their profiles to a “DisplayName” designed to make the targeted user think they were communicating with a help-desk account.

Social Engineering 128

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Accountability 128

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven.

Scams 339

Scams Social Engineering Cybercrime Advertising 339

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

From there, fraudulent call center agents will social engineer their victims in order to extract money from them. We’d like to thank GitHub for their quick response in taking down the malicious accounts we reported to them. The biggest risk to consumers is being defrauded for hundreds, and often thousands of dollars.

Advertising 141

Advertising Scams Social Engineering Banking 141

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com)

Phishing 364

Phishing VPN Social Engineering Accountability 364

Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

As first reported here on July 16, prior to bitcoin scam messages being blasted out from such high-profile Twitter accounts @barackobama, @joebiden, @elonmusk and @billgates, several highly desirable short-character Twitter account names changed hands, including @L, @6 and @W. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

Hacking 354

Hacking Accountability Scams Media 354

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

Encryption 342

Encryption Engineering Social Engineering Healthcare 342

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. ” MICROBILT.

Identity Theft 361

Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 361

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

A screen shot from a user account at “Snowden,” a long-running reshipping mule service. It stands to reason that the virus outbreak might depress cybercriminal demand for “dumps,” or stolen account data that can be used to create physical counterfeit credit cards.

Cybercrime 362

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Marketing Scams 362

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

Social Engineering 122

Social Engineering Accountability Engineering Backups 122

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

“Another social engineering technique the threat actor uses to lure the employee into interacting with the email is giving the messages urgency, asking the recipient to review them or they will be deleted after three days.” “The overlay itself is attempting to prompt the user to sign in to access the company account.”

Social Engineering 145

Social Engineering Phishing Engineering Advertising 145

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) has hit the news headlines for becoming a victim of a cyber attack that led to data breach of over 57,900 claimant accounts seeking unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, a digital advertising company named Reindeer from New York is trending on Google for accidental data exposure.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Engineering Identity Theft Social Engineering 145

Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secure networks : Avoid using untrusted public Wi-Fi to access social media accounts, instead, use mobile data. This avoids one of the easiest ways attackers get access to your account – you reusing passwords across multiple websites. The idea is that you need to have this physical item with you to access your account.

Media 115

Media Accountability Password Management Passwords 115

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. Pierluigi Paganini.

Hacking 110

Hacking Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 110

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A vulnerability in the Microsoft OAuth implementation exposes Azure cloud accounts to takeover. “This vulnerability makes it much easier to compromise privilege users – whether through simple social engineering techniques or by infecting a website that the privileged users occasionally access.” Pierluigi Paganini.

Authentication 97

Authentication Accountability Social Engineering Advertising 97

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” These external users set their profiles to a “DisplayName” designed to make the targeted user think they were communicating with a help-desk account.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Accountability 52

Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2024

The core issue with brand impersonation comes from ads that appear as if they were from official sources and advertisers’ identities verified by Google. This was the case here with this ad for Authenticator: The truth is Larry Marr has nothing to do with Google, and is likely a fake account.

Authentication 142

Authentication Computers and Electronics Social Engineering Malware 142

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

According to the Girl Scouts of Orange County, an unknown threat actor gained access to an email account operated by the organization and used it to send messages. The account was compromised from Sept. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are notifying everyone whose information was in this email account,” Salcido added.

Data breaches 107

Data breaches Social Engineering Insurance Advertising 107

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering 143

Social Engineering VPN Phishing Authentication 143

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Much of this fraud exploits weak authentication methods used by states that have long sought to verify applicants using static, widely available information such as Social Security numbers and birthdays. Many states also lacked the ability to tell when multiple payments were going to the same bank accounts. protections.

Scams 351

Scams Insurance DDOS Authentication 351

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering 145

Social Engineering Passwords Marketing Phishing 145

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

. “During our investigation, on some of the compromised stations we observed some unusual behavior performed under a certain user account, leading us to believe the attackers managed to create a user account on the victims’ machine and performed several malicious actions inside the network, using that account.”

Government 134

Government Social Engineering Telecommunications Hacking 134

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These OTPs, used in multi-factor authentication, allowed criminals to bypass security and access victims’ bank accounts to steal funds. Cybercriminals paid a monthly subscription fee to OTP.Agency, which provided tools for socially engineering victims and tricked them into revealing one-time passcodes or personal information.

Banking 130

Banking Social Engineering Accountability Authentication 130

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

The data were leaked online via the Twitter account “G0d” (@_0rbit) that has been suspended. “The Twitter account @_0rbit published the links daily in the style of an advent calendar, with each entry representing a “door”, behind which was a link to new information.” ” reported France24.?.

Social Engineering 111

Social Engineering Government Advertising Accountability 111

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Israeli Defence Force (IDF) announced it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas militant group to hack soldiers’ mobile devices by posing as attractive women on social media and instant messaging apps ( i.e. Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering 105

Social Engineering Media Spyware Advertising 105

Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

American citizens lost over $6,000,000 due to these individuals’ BEC fraud schemes, in which they impersonated business executives and requested and received wire transfers from legitimate business accounts.” “Ogunshakin provided Uzuh and other co-conspirators with bank accounts that were used to receive fraudulent wire transfers.

Scams 121

Scams Social Engineering Small Business Banking 121

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Social media giants have long held too much power over our digital identities. Related: Google, Facebook promote third-party snooping Today, no one is immune to these giants’ vicious cycle of collecting personal data, selling it to advertisers, and manipulating users with data metrics.

Media 189

Media Accountability Social Engineering Hacking 189

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Government Communication Service website was publicly displaying information of about 45k Govt employees and details include email address, phone numbers and job titles, along with the social media account handles of some ministers and civil servants, including their Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.

Government 109

Government Social Engineering Advertising Media 109

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

He gained access to his phone number and used it impersonate the executive and steal $500,000 from two accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini. But he wasn’t quick enough to stop a hacker from draining $500,000 from two separate accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini, according to Santa Clara officials.” Pierluigi Paganini.

Cryptocurrency 107

Cryptocurrency Identity Theft Social Engineering Accountability 107

Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

” The Dream Job comes from the social engineering technique used by the attackers that used fake LinkedIn accounts to contact potential victims and use job offerings from prominent defense and aerospace entities as bait. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Cyber Attacks 134

Cyber Attacks Social Engineering Advertising Manufacturing 134