Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com) com) targeting AT&T employees.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. A threat actor gained access to a tool used by the company’s customer support and account administration teams. The company was the victim of a social engineering attack aimed at its employees.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The popular investigator and journalist Brian Krebs first surmised that the LAPSUS$ gang has breached T-Mobile after he reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the cybercrime group. Telegram channels that were restricted to the core seven members of the group – Source KrebsonSecurity. ” wrote Krebs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The company also owns and operates a number of other businesses, including a golf course management company, a travel agency, and a marketing firm. The stolen data also includes driver’s license numbers and/or social security numbers. ” The investigation is still ongoing to determine the extent of security incident.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Sony’s PlayStation Plus is starting to compete with Microsoft’s subscription service, GamePass, and offers to play subscription games not only on consoles, but also on the PC, to increase the market share. The larger the subscription base, the greater the number of fraudulent key-selling schemes and attempts at stealing accounts.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. Analysis of forecasts for 2021. We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular.

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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 -->.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Many of the threats faced by gamers are associated with loss of personal data, and particularly, accounts with various gaming services. Nevertheless, as games offer users plenty of in-game goodies and even feature their own currencies, gaming accounts are of particular interest to cybercriminals. Background. Command and Control.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

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. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2022

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered multiple spyware campaigns that target industrial firms to steal email account credentials and carry out fraudulent activities. Threat actors sent spear-phishing messages from compromised corporate accounts to their contacts, the email carry malicious attachments.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) report from October of 2021, the cybersecurity insurance market, including both U.S. This is driven by the proliferation of cyber claims across the entire market, particularly ransomware related. AXA XL accounts for about 10% of the current cyber insurance market.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The use of fake domains impersonating venture capital firms and social engineering tactics observed by Jamf lead the experts into attributing the attacks to BlueNoroff. Kaspersky researchers noticed that the group had created numerous fake domains impersonating venture capital firms and banks in a campaign tracked as ‘SnatchCrypto’.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Online fraud and phishing company Bolster recently reported that criminals are starting to stand up fraudulent, imitation NFT websites that impersonate actual digital marketplaces such as Opensea and Rarible, then are using fake tweets and other social engineering tactics to lure victims to these phishing pages. billion in 2020. “We

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. The deep web is also made up of content that is not indexed by search engines and requires a login to access.

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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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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. During that time, email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The cybercriminal market has been developing extensively, with the overwhelming majority of cybercriminals pursuing one goal — financial profit, no matter the source. Unlike common stealers, this malware gathered data that can be used to identify the victims, such as browsing histories, social networking account IDs and Wi-Fi networks.

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SecureList

JANUARY 19, 2022

Overall, we have identified over 2,000 corporate email accounts belonging to industrial companies stolen and abused as next-attack C2. Overall, we have identified over 2,000 corporate email accounts belonging to industrial companies abused as next-attack C2 servers as a result of malicious operations of this type. Recommendations.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The big payoffs, the tendency of most victims to pay the ransom demand, and the money to be made by selling or leasing their malware in the growing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) market are all enticements when it comes to ransomware. Cybercrime Rewarded. It’s just more and more volume and attack angles.”.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

DarkReading Twitter account has more than 200k followers, a very solid number for the cybersecurity industry. Their main focus is on cybercrime investigations. This blog educates about social engineering attacks and ways to prevent them. According to Forbes, the IoT market may double by 2021, reaching $520 billion.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats. Hackers attack not only exchanges, but also its clients.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to the analytical agency Newzoo, in 2022, the global gaming market will exceed $ 200 billion , with 3 billion players globally. One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Success comes when an organisation pays attention to them and to the market. Today they account for only 25% of the cybersecurity workforce, a 1% improvement in the last two years. When they anticipate the next steps, and act upon them. This is the era of the first mover not the fast follower.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last year, we foresaw the APT and cybercrime worlds becoming more porous on an operational level. This includes the use of social engineering to obtain credentials and brute-force attacks on corporate services, in the hope of finding poorly protected servers. Let’s start by looking at the predictions we made for 2021.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

These are criminals with extensive knowledge of the payment market, and EFT software and protocols. With the patch in place, the malware collects the data from TRACK2, such as the account number and expiration date, in addition to other cardholder information needed to perform fraudulent transactions. Initial infection vector.

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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.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. After gaining access to Atlas, White proceeded to look up T-Mobile accounts associated with the FBI and Department of Defense (see image above).

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Their attacks are usually low-skill and low-resource, such as using social engineering (phishing) for fraudulent redirects to malicious websites. Individuals can provide compromised accounts or other network access that is sold to ransomware groups for easier access with which to launch their malware.

Cryptocurrency 98

Cryptocurrency Ransomware Government Risk 98

SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 Last year’s lockdowns gave a boost to the mobile market, with users downloading thirty percent more mobile games per week in Q1 2021 than in Q4 2019 globally, reaching over one billion weekly downloads. Mobile games especially draw ever more users.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord. Posing as AOL employees, the scammers sent messages asking users to verify their accounts or asking for payment details.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense. AI-Improved Security Many vendors began marketing AI-enhanced products years ago, and experts see continuing development of AI as an advantage for improved cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity CISO Government Technology 140

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

This demand leads to the development of cybersecurity predictions which must take into account underlying drivers of the attackers, defenders, and technology where the battles will play out. This is the normal cadence the industry expects and although difficult to keep pace, the cybersecurity world is able to tread these waters. In 2024: 1.

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