Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

GitHub is experiencing issues of the “breached account and malicious code” variety. ITPro reports that unnamed individuals have been compromising accounts and using them to install malware capable of password theft. Additionally, existing JavaScript files already present in the project are tampered with to add malware.

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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

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. Let’s say we’re trying to find computers that the user chell was the last account to log on to. User Last Logon.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks.

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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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this thorough presentation, Grimes covers all elements of ransomware attacks, from working with lawyers to how attackers run a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation. Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). Educate users how to spot rogue URLs.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here’s the message in question: "We have detected some fraudulently activities with your PayPal account. At this point, it’s all about social engineering personal details under the guise of a PayPal fraud department. PayPal offers several forms of security to help keep accounts safe. Keeping your PayPal safe.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Cybernews research team discovered that Strendus, a Mexican-licensed online casino, had left public access to 85GB of its authentication logs, with hundreds of thousands of entries containing private gamblers’ data. The data was likely compromised by unauthorized actors. Amount of leaked data.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

The seed phrase can be used for gaining or recovering access to the user’s account and making any transactions. The seed phrase cannot be changed or recovered: by misplacing it, the user risks losing access to their wallet for good, and by giving it to scammers, permanently compromising their account. ripple.com.

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

She spoke about various voting count incidents and the lack of accountability in very specific incidents. Unfortunately, Kim didn’t provide any mention of accountability for the decision-makers behind the Colonial fiasco. Hopefully he will be in-person for future work. Their live action vishing challenge is a thrill.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. Cryptocurrency and NFT attacks are rising as decentralized finance, and digital art assets become sophisticated socially engineered threats. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

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Identity IQ

MAY 16, 2023

Armed with the code, they can set up a Google Voice account that appears to be linked to your phone number. A Google Voice verification scam is a deceptive tactic used by criminals, both overseas and potentially within the United States, to exploit the process of enabling a Google Voice account. phone number.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Those reasons include: The security protocol slows tasks and operation progress with long, tedious authentication processes. There will be a direct correlation in 2023 of compromised accounts, either stolen or sold, that will be used to attack an organization in minimally observed communication channels.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At Social-Engineer, we define impersonation as “the practice of pretexting as another person with the goal of obtaining information or access to a person, company, or computer system.” These emails can present a fake sense of authority that can very easily pressure an individual to take actions they normally wouldn’t.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

For the tool to function, the operator must input a list of compromised email accounts to be scanned. It’s noteworthy that most of the victim accounts identified were predominantly from the U.K. and various EU countries, including but not limited to Spain, France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, among others.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

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. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 13, 2021

This is, of course, is in addition to all of their personal accounts and passwords which are sometimes used on the same device as their work accounts. . With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that somewhere between 20% and 50% of calls to the helpdesk are related to accounts being locked, or password resets. .

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Two former college graduates are in a lot of trouble after breaking into other students’ accounts and stealing sensitive personal data. Working with another former graduate, he accessed the school email accounts of dozens of college students and stole private nude photographs. What happened? Many of the images were then shared.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Currently, most initial access attempts are carried out with social engineering, commonly phishing. However, the same report shows that the human element accounted for 74% of data breaches. Consider your VPN solution, many have moved to using M365 authentication to protect this. What’s the attack? Why is that?

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. Cyber crooks also pounced on new vulnerabilities presented by the explosion in remote loan originations and closings, the research found.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. .*) As we can see, LB3.exe exe is the main file.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

New research from security firm CloudSEK shows that more than 3,200 mobile applications were leaking Twitter API (Application Program Interface) keys, which can be used to gain access and take over user accounts. Of those, 230 were leaking all four authorization credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Phishing is the most formidable social engineering tactic that cybercriminals use to persuade employees to disclose sensitive information, whether it be clicking a suspicious link, downloading an attachment or visiting a malicious website – not to mention simply providing credential information outright.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

Social media accounts associated only with personal, non-business usage. is an electronic cyberattack that targets a user by email and falsely poses as an authentic entity to bait individuals into providing sensitive data, corporate passwords, clicks on a malicious web link, or execute malware.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The industry is strained by so many factors that proper cybersecurity protocols can be overlooked, presenting an opportunity for threat actors to try to turn a quick buck. The healthcare sector continues to be a high priority target for malicious threat actors, as it has been throughout the pandemic. million of its patients.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2023

Symptoms of security fatigue To combat security fatigue, you must understand how it presents itself – in yourself and your employees. MFA prompt bombing complacency Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a common cybersecurity measure taken by companies, but it can also reveal a security fatigue issue.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Suppose that, out of the blue, a Steam user tells you they’ve accidentally reported you for something you didn’t do, like making an illegal purchase, and that your Steam account is going to be suspended. And, based on its new latest iteration, it targets Steam users with a Discord account. What do you do? Via /u/Moritz_M05).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The malicious campaigns Charming Kitten are unleashing on unsuspecting victims makes use of superior social engineering, such as creating dummy accounts on Gmail that look realistic enough to trick users into clicking through. APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you use authentication apps on your mobile, you’ve almost certainly had to scan one to set up 2FA for websites you use. This means anyone who’s fallen for it will need to keep a close eye on other forms of correspondence, as it could easily serve as a launchpad for further phishing or social engineering attempts.

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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. There’s no time like the present to get started with these strategies.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

It looks like similar techniques were used on Sir Grayson Perry’s stage show , where information was used to identify members of the audience and query details from their social media accounts live on stage. These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. This makes information gathering very hard.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2023

While reading SCCM Current Branch Unleashed and stepping through the site installation process, I found something interesting — the primary site server’s domain computer account is required to be a member of the local Administrators group on the site database server. fallback to NTLM authentication is enabled (default). AND either: 4a.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retailers must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which mandates the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help protect customers from data breaches. CSOonline.com reports that 94% of malware is delivered via email, and phishing attacks account for more than 80% of security incidents.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Some advanced network monitoring tools can automate this process, restricting accounts when they behave irregularly. This trend presents a valuable opportunity for hackers if there’s no in-transit encryption. Social engineering avoidance should be part of all workers’ onboarding processes.

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