Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last week, T-Mobile disclosed that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 37 million of its past and present customers had been breached in an API attack. They also shared that the attack had been going on since November but was only caught January 5 by T-Mobile’s security team. Was the API known to T-Mobile?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Microsoft blogged about its attack at the hands of LAPSUS$, and about the group targeting its customers. The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings.

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Identity IQ

JULY 3, 2023

How to Detect and Respond to Account Misuse IdentityIQ As digital connectivity continues to grow, safeguarding your online accounts from misuse is becoming increasingly crucial. Account misuse can result in alarming repercussions, including privacy breaches, financial losses, and identity theft.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The benefit of these codes is that they are random numbers, so they can be difficult to guess, and they cannot be reused across a user’s different accounts (like passwords typically are). Social Engineering: An attacker logs in with a user’s credentials and the real user gets sent an OTP.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

The threat actors use sophisticated social engineering techniques to infect Windows and Android devices of the victims with previously undocumented backdoors. “These fake accounts have operated for months, and seem relatively authentic to the unsuspecting user. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web. Not only are passwords vulnerable to brute force attacks, but they can also be easily forgotten and reused across multiple accounts. That all changed rather quickly.

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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. Scammers are primarily financially motivated.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

A huge economy has developed within the gaming community: People buy and sell in-game objects, character modifications, and even accounts. Account takeovers. Bad actors are always on the lookout for easy-to-breach gaming accounts. Once stolen, they can resell an account or its contents to interested buyers.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The best way to stay up-to-date with the recent trends is by reading the top cybersecurity blogs. Here’s our list of the best cybersecurity blogs to read and follow. Securing Tomorrow SecuringTomorrow is a blog by McAfee, one of the biggest security software providers. The main focus here is the social side of data loss.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this blog, we will summarize the key findings of the report and offer actionable recommendations to mitigate these threats. Some of the key findings of the report are: Ransomware still gets top of the podium, accounting for 34% of EU threats. Ransomware attacks are expected to continue to rise in frequency and sophistication.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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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. What’s the attack?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

When we sign up for an online account or request resetting a password, we usually receive a new password via e-mail. However, if an attacker is able to intercept and read this e-mail she or he will be able to compromise our account. AIS have no emotions and therefore cannot be attacked by social engineering methods.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. Some of those sensitive actions include reading Direct Messages, retweeting, deleting messages, liking messages, and getting account settings. Twitter API. The vulnerability.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

They must also compromise the user’s mobile device to access their seed phrase or perform some other type of sophisticated social engineering hack to obtain the secret seed phrase directly from the users. Every social media user’s agenda should be a revolution to hold tech giants accountable for their actions.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. That explains why over 80 percent of data breaches start with weak, reused, and stolen passwords through password phishing, social engineering, brute force attacks and credential stuffing. Related: The coming of passwordless access. O’Toole.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

A good start would be to read Mobilizing the C-Suite: Waging War Against Cyberattacks, written by Frank Riccardi, a former privacy and compliance officer from the healthcare sector. Companies can prevent social engineering attacks by steeping employees in cyber hygiene and warning them about the sneaky ways cybercriminals launch cyberattacks.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

In a blog post published on March 22nd, 2022, Microsoft confirmed that one of their user accounts had been compromised by the Lapsus$ (also known as DEV-0537) threat actor, though they claimed that the information accessed was limited and that “no customer code or data was involved”. The Compromises. Insider Threats Via Other Means.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

A phishing campaign that Microsoft security researchers have been tracking for about a year highlights not only the ongoing success of social engineering efforts by hackers to compromise systems, but also the extent to which the bad actors will go to cover their tracks while stealing user credentials. Invoice-Themed Lures.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Original post at [link] While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, COVID-19, Zoom meetings, vaccination recommendations and travel warnings all provide ample and unique precedent for social engineering attacks. Take precautions to protect your identity if a criminal gains access to your device or account. Monitor your accounts and personal information for suspicious activity.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mobile – Reports also show that mobile threats to the web and applications have gained more traction under new campaigns. Spin up more security awareness training to help minimize social engineering, phishing and other user-focused attacks. •If Commit to timely and near instant responses.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers reported Tuesday that they found two email phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 mailboxes at FedEx and DHL Express that look to extract a user’s work email account. The email titles, sender names, and content did enough to mask their true intention and make victims think the emails were from FedEx and DHL.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Help Desk Social Engineering Apply the principle of least privilege when granting administrator rights, and make sure you’re aware of the different roles that Duo admins can hold. Be especially aware of the owner role, which is a super-admin role: it can grant admin privileges to other accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2021

In this blog, I am joined by my colleague Pauline Pinzuti, Marketing Manager to discuss how the use of voice biometrics can help telecom operators fight ID fraud. What do mobile operations needs to know about telecom fraud? As a result, many have created extensive service portfolios, extending far beyond just mobile communications.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the EU, lawmakers are working on the Data Act , meant to further protect sensitive data, as well as a comprehensive AI legal strategy that might put a curb on a range of invasive machine-learning technologies and require greater accountability and transparency. Desperate to stop data leaks, people will insure against them.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Compromised or stolen credentials is the second most common type of cybersecurity incident accounting for 27% of reported breaches, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). What some people miss, however, is that corporate-mandated authenticators can and should also be enabled for personal accounts.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In a blog, Sophos researchers explain how the attackers – which the researchers believe could all be operated by the same group – used social engineering, counterfeit websites, including a fake iOS App Store download page, and an iOS app-testing website to distribute the fake apps to their victims. Do not make it easy for them.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Among the most popular lures and themes for the scams were payroll diversion, where the scammer asks to change their bank account or direct debit information. The next most popular ruse is to ask for the recipient’s mobile number or personal email address. MORE This article draws parallels between security breaches and moral panic.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

In the phishing attacks the group leverages previously compromised Microsoft 365 instances, mostly owned by small businesses, to create new domains that look like technical support accounts. Once the target has done this, the attacker can use the gained access to further compromise the account.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If someone obtains the thing that you know then it's (probably) game over and they have access to your account. That's not to say that this model is "bad" and by any reasonable definition, it's a massive improvement over 1FA that would prevent the vast majority of account takeover attacks I see today.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On a recent external assessment, I stumbled upon a method to bypass a client’s MFA requirement: access a single-sign on (SSO) token and leverage that token to access internal applications that—by policy—should have been locked behind an MFA prompt, all without triggering an MFA alert on the end-user’s mobile device.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we provide you with ten actionable ways to safeguard your digital identity, focusing specifically on how to prevent compromised credentials. Social Engineering : Cybercriminals manipulate and deceive individuals into divulging their credentials through psychological manipulation or impersonation.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we provide you with ten actionable ways to safeguard your digital identity, focusing specifically on how to prevent compromised credentials. Social Engineering : Cybercriminals manipulate and deceive individuals into divulging their credentials through psychological manipulation or impersonation.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In our last blog, Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update , we wrote about a barcode scanner found on the Google Play store that was infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.AdQR. We have written them a letter so they should remove their Google Play account.

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