eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

One new tactic hackers have been using is to steal cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even cloud infrastructures rely on cookies to authenticate their users. Browsers allow users to maintain authentication, remember passwords and autofill forms. How Hackers Steal Cookies.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait. Others offered the coveted Green Pass without vaccination.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Cybercriminals have been quick to recognize and take advantage of these new capabilities, which has given birth to a new epoch of phishing called "deepfake phishing." The mechanics of deepfake phishing The way traditional phishing works is rather simple. Nowadays, being a successful "black hat" takes a lot of effort.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Researchers from threat intelligence Cyble have discovered threat actors abusing the Ngrok platform in a fresh phishing campaign. Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

The use of an additional form of authentication to protect the accessing of a sensitive digital system has come a long way over the past decade and a half. An Israeli start-up, Silverfort , is seeking to make a great leap forward in the state-of-the-art of authentication systems. LW: Let’s come back to ‘adaptive authentication.’

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, research indicates that phishing attacks are the most common threat — by far. Microsoft’s “ Security Intelligence Report, Volume 24 ” shows a 250% increase in the number of phishing emails and attacks since 2018. To avoid becoming a victim, it’s critical to prevent phishing attacks. Pick a Strong Password Manager.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. million detections compared to 5.04

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 15, 2021

Yes, it’s a password-less authentication method, greatly streamlining the login experience, and while that’s a great incentive to use passwordless for logging in, it’s not an improvement in authentication security in and of itself. Unlocking authenticator devices locally removes the threats of credential reuse and shared secrets.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are using mathematical symbols on impersonated company logos to evade detection in phishing campaigns. Researchers from anti-phishing cybersecurity firm INKY have detailed a new technique to evade detection in phishing attacks, it leverages using mathematical symbols on impersonated company logos.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

It is essential to ensure that all accounts are protected with strong passwords. To this day, a significant amount of people still use the password across multiple accounts, which makes it much simpler for a cybercriminal to compromise a password and take over accounts. Set-up 2-factor authentication. About the essayist.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2022

There are several types of phishing attacks, which are just one form of cybercrime. . A phishing attack takes place when a criminal pretends to be someone they’re not to trick people into giving over their personal information, such as their credit card details. Email phishing is also known as deception phishing.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. PST on Nov.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Encryption, data sovereignty, multifactor authentication and website cookies are all vital ideas and technologies to keep consumers’ personal data safe – but research released this month reveals widespread confusion. They are also phishing-resistant alternative to passwords. Can you share some examples of multifactor authentication?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad. A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Also, according to the complaint, the company specifically claimed in many instances that it would not share users’ data for marketing purposes without obtaining people’s consent. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ducktail is a malware family that has been active since the second half of 2021 and aims to steal Facebook business accounts. We have analyzed a recent campaign that ran between March and early October 2023 and targeted marketing professionals. The attack was tailored to target marketing professionals looking for a career change.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 7, 2023

A passkey is a phishing-resistant cryptographic keypair you register for web-based authentication. It’s the strongest authentication method available today, which is why you see passkeys moving to replace passwords altogether. Recently, we released passkeys for the admin panel to make this workflow even easier and more secure.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company. According to LifeLock’s marketing literature as of January 2017, the company has more than 4.5

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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. A huge economy has developed within the gaming community: People buy and sell in-game objects, character modifications, and even accounts. Account takeovers. Phishing and social engineering.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io Email verifiers are online services that allow marketers and salespeople to verify that the email address you used to create an account, sign up for a newsletter or make an order on their website is real and valid. platform or River City Media.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

That's not surprising considering that Microsoft holds the largest market share for both desktop and laptop computers. In this blog post, we will provide details on one campaign targeting TradingView, a popular platform and app to track financial markets. This is likely a compromised ad account that is being used by the threat actors.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

A new Cloudflare phishing report notes that most of the 1 billion brand impersonation emails the company detected “passed” SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols. At the same time, an organization is also quite likely to fall for business email compromise and phishing attacks from their vendors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

That means that everyone wanting to access their tickets must do so by signing in either to their email or ticket vendor’s account – and there are plenty of opportunities for account compromise. The ‘big event’ phishing spike It’s not just what happens on game day, but on the practice field, as they say.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2024

Russia-linked APT group Midnight Blizzard hacked Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CISA adds Atlassian Confluence Data Center bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 5379 GitLab servers vulnerable to zero-click account takeover attacks Experts released PoC exploit for Fortra GoAnywhere MFT flaw CVE-2024-0204 Akira ransomware attack on Tietoevry (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing identity-based attacks Duo has made a number of significant investments in identity security over the last several years with the release of Duo’s Trust Monitor, Duo’s Risk-Based Authentication, and moving Duo’s Trusted Endpoints feature into Duo’s Essentials edition.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2023

Among the leaked data, researchers found a million tokens used for authentication and accessing the website. Abusing them, threat actors could hijack user accounts and purchase products on the platform using the payment methods linked with the account.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard for email authentication is adopted by all U.S. DMARC addresses weaknesses in other email authentication standards to check for misleading “From” fields in emails and to improve tracking of potential spoofing campaigns. How Does DMARC Work?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

When organizations implement Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance ( DMARC ), they expect to tighten email security and protect against spoofing and other spam email attacks. DMARC provides widely established standards for email authentication and is adopted by all U.S. What is DMARC? What is DKIM? What is SPF?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Making a cybersecurity list, checking it twice This year, give yourself the gift of peace of mind by following our Core 4 behaviors: Protect each account with a unique, complex password that is at least 12 characters long—and use a password manager! Use multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) for any account that allows it.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Earlier this year, we covered the threats related to gaming , and looked at the changes from 2020 and the first half of 2021 in mobile and PC games as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on video games. We also explore the kind of game-related data that ends up on the black market and the prices. Background.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 17, 2021

With contributions from Jamal “Jay” Bethea, Cisco Secure Email Product Marketing Manager. When it comes to safeguarding email against today’s advanced threats like phishing and malware information is power. Internal Email Scanning: Account Take Over (ATO) is a new threat to organizations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2021

Today, we are reviewing the GreatHorn Cloud Email Security Platform, an email security solution to protect organizations against phishing attacks and advanced communication threats. Phishing attacks have been growing dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting massive increase in employees working from home.

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