Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. The post 2020 Likely To Break Records for Breaches appeared first on Adam Levin. MGM Resorts (10.6

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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.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

BeyondTrust’s security team detected that someone was trying to use an Okta account assigned to one of their engineers to create an all-powerful administrator account within their Okta environment. He said that on Oct 2., But she said that by Oct.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Instagram is a top social media platform with over 2 billion active users, making it a prime target for hackers. Data breaches and account hacks are a growing concern for users, especially with the personal and professional information shared on the platform. This will help protect your account from potential threats.

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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 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attack.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, John finds himself locked out of his account, and quickly learns that the password reset link he clicked earlier did not come from his company. He took the steps needed to keep his account safe by following the directions from his IT team. What is social engineering? John is a diligent employee.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Payment gateway provider Slim CD disclosed a data breach, credit card and personal data of almost 1.7 The electronic payment gateway Slim CD disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack. Personal data and credit card details of 1,693,000 individuals were compromised. million individuals were compromised.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Often inadvertent data breaches stem from a well-meaning employee trying to meet the needs of clients but without the technical systems to facilitate. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

The growing risks to your data During the third quarter of 2024, data breaches exposed more than 422 million records worldwide. Millions of customers were put at risk when their social security numbers, phone numbers, and other sensitive personal information were leaked.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

BleepingComputer reported that DragonForce ransomware affiliates usedScattered Spider social engineering tacticsto target Marks and Spencer. The personal data could include contact details, date of birth and online order history. The attackers encrypted VMware ESXi virtual machines used by the company.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 20, 2023

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. In this scheme, scammers gain unauthorized access to a victim’s account and exploit it for malicious purposes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The threat actors were able to modify DNS settings by tricking GoDaddy employees into handing over the control of the targeted domains with social engineering attacks. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The popular trading app Robinhood has just been hit with a major data breach affecting millions of its users. The company says an unauthorized third party socially engineered a customer support employee while talking on the phone, obtaining access to some customer support systems.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It’s highly likely one of your passwords has been compromised in a data breach and is available for sale on the dark web. This is why you should never reuse passwords.Hacking Software and ToolsWhile there are software tools for various types of cyber attacks, the one I’m going to focus on is social engineering attacks.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The targeted system contained customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses among other customer account metadata, including system logs for one customer. In emails sent to MongoDB customers, MongoDB advises users to be alert about phishing and social engineering attacks that might use the leaked customer metadata to gain credibility.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Cybercriminals exploit compromised accounts for EDR-as-a-Service (Emergency Data Requests – EDR), targeting major platforms According to a detailed analysis conducted by Meridian Group, an increasingly complex and structured phenomenon, commonly referred to as EDR-as-a-Service, is taking hold in the cybersecurity landscape.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io and River City Media data breaches. platform or River City Media. That’s because you didn’t.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2025

In early May 2025, two of the United Kingdom's best-known grocers, Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op, as well as luxury retailer Harrods, were struck by sophisticated social-engineering attacks that tricked IT teams into resetting critical passwords and deploying ransomware across their networks. Attacks Spark U.S.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

As well as over 180,000 unencrypted Social Security Numbers (SSNs), along with tens of thousands of partial payment card numbers (last 4 digits) and expiration dates. A treasure trove for social engineers. In addition, Residual Pumpkin will have to make a $500,000 payment to data breach victims, the FTC said in the statement.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 13, 2020

The SANS Institute, a company that provides cybersecurity training and certification, announced that a data breach compromised the personally identifiable data of roughly 28,000 records. The breach has been traced back to a phishing attack that targeted an employee of the company.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

Additionally, a distributed workforce, ranging from remote maintenance technicians to cabin crews, multiplies entry points for social-engineering tactics like phishing. Aircraft themselves are nodes on data networks, constantly transmitting telemetry, engine performance metrics, and passenger connectivity data.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cloud-based communication platform provider Twilio has announced a breach via a social engineering attack on employees. At this site, the attacker could intercept the login credentals and use those to access the compromised accounts. Text messages. Twilio customers. Twilio has notified the affected customers. Protection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The recent Mailchimp data breach has impacted multiple organizations, some of them are already notifying their customers. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach , the incident exposed the data of 133 customers. reads the notice published by the company.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Historically, account takeover (ATO) has been recognized as an attack in which cybercriminals take ownership of online accounts using stolen passwords and usernames. The post What You Need to Do Today to Protect Against Account Takeover Attacks appeared first on Blog. They use these credentials to deploy bots […].

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A data breach late last month of software development platform firm Retool led to the accelerated acquisition of one of its users and put a spotlight on an account synchronization feature that Google introduced earlier this year.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 16, 2025

Crypto giant Coinbase is grappling with one of its most serious security challenges to date: An insider-led data breach that has shaken customer trust and could cost the company as much as $400 million. The stolen information was then used in social engineering scams that tricked users into giving away their crypto.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack. Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. ” In short, although you may not be required to create online accounts to manage your affairs at your ISP, the U.S. .”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

A review of the exposed support forum by this author suggests that while none of the posts exposed customer information such as payment card data, a number of them did include customer account information, such customer names, device identifiers and in some cases location information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Accessed information includes data related to phone numbers, email accounts, addresses, names, the location where the order was delivered, and the final 4 digits of bank cards. JD Sports has assured that hackers accessed no passwords related to their accounts and issued an apology for failing to protect the customer info.

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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

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image Source: AI Generated Recent data breaches have exposed sensitive information from millions of customers across healthcare, financial services, and technology sectors. These data breaches highlight significant vulnerabilities in vendor relationships and supply chain security. million per incident in 2023.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The direct path to data.

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