Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

” The perpetrators focus on social engineering new hires at the targeted company, and impersonate staff at the target company’s IT helpdesk. The actor logged the information provided by the employee and used it in real-time to gain access to corporate tools using the employee’s account.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

The decrypted icon files revealed the location of the malware’s control server, which was then queried for a third stage of the malware compromise — a password stealing program dubbed ICONICSTEALER. The malware was found inside of a document that offered an employment contract at the multinational bank HSBC. Microsoft Corp.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

The data it’s after includes government documents like passport, as well as selfie photos. In a nutshell, it’s an extensive form of information theft, the likes of which could result in someone’s identity being fully stolen and their financial and other online accounts being taken over. Source: Akamai).

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

So, to make sure yours don’t get snatched, here are a few tips and tricks we learned from cybersecurity experts: #1: Safeguard your Accounts. Add an extra layer of security to your bank and other accounts by choosing an identity theft service that monitors online activity and sends notifications as soon as suspicious activity is detected. .

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

DocuSign is a service that allows people to sign documents in the Cloud. Signing documents electronically saves a lot of paper and time. Recipients can check links by hovering their mouse pointer over the document link in the email. If it is an actual DocuSign document it will be hosted at docusign.net.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 30, 2023

Be sure to request that they close or freeze the account you have with them to prevent any new charges and change your passwords and PINs for all accounts. If you create an account on the FTC website, it will update the recovery plan as needed, track progress, and assist with any forms or letters when necessary.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

For example, an email that seems to come from your boss asking you to urgently review a document before a meeting, or to provide some personal information, can easily catch us unaware. This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. What You Can Do.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its activity is built around evergreen techniques like phishing, software exploits, and password guessing, along with mature malicious technologies like info stealers, trojans, and ransomware. And like broader, law-abiding “Business” at large, cybercrime has settled on a collection of tools that work.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here is how the company describes the threat of phishing emails: "Phishing is a common way scammers try to trick you into giving them personal information such as an account username and password, Social Security number, or other personal information. How to spot phishing emails. Be especially wary of.zip,exe,doc files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

Samples from the archive shared by the author include full names, email addresses, links to the users’ social media accounts, and other data points that users had publicly listed on their LinkedIn profiles. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. What’s being sold by the threat actor?

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2022

Theft of valid accounts is often combined with remote corporate services like VPNs or other access mechanisms. Valid accounts. These may be obtained by phishing, social engineering, insider threats, or carelessly handed data. Use of vendor-supplied default configurations or default usernames and passwords.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In minutes, they were also denied access to their Apple accounts and everything attached to them, including photos, videos, contacts, notes, and more. Some of the victims were robbed of thousands of dollars in the form of drained bank accounts, money taken from Venmo or other money-sending apps, and Apple Pay charges. GET STARTED

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documents earlier of August by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos that tracked it as Hexane. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. Security experts at Dragos Inc. ”concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A vulnerability in the Microsoft OAuth implementation exposes Azure cloud accounts to takeover. You can see more API calls documented here.” The post A flaw in Microsoft OAuth authentication could lead Azure account takeover appeared first on Security Affairs. ” continues the analysis. “While OAuth 2.0

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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. This involves specifying the credentials, as well as the IBAN and BIC codes that will be used for the ‘swapping’ or spoofing process in the documents. Utilizing AI-driven bots for advanced social engineering techniques.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Brute-forcing the passwords of LinkedIn profiles and email addresses. The leaked files appear to only contain LinkedIn profile information – we did not find any deeply sensitive data like credit card details or legal documents in the sample posted by the threat actor. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All they knew was that if they wanted their password reset and they didn’t want to go to the helpdesk – if they come to us with a box of chocolates and compliment and whether we’ve been working out and how we looked ripped we do it for them. Passwords. We had a policy that dictated how passwords should be.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Furthermore, identity thieves can take out personal loans, open credit card accounts, and commit other fraud crimes in your name. Hacking Identity thieves may even try to hack databases, such as institutions or government agencies, to steal your personal information, such as tax-related documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

“Current malspam campaigns feature booby-trapped document files named “COVID 19 relief” and subject lines relying on the same theme. The document is password-protected, likely to prevent analysis before it is received by the potential victim, the password is included in the content of the email.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to the document, 84% of roughly 4,000 surveyed professionals in the U.K. said that they post on social media every week. Indeed, 55% of respondents said they have public Facebook profiles only 33% said they set their Instagram accounts set to private. What constitutes TMI? With that said, some details can be avoided.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

According to Bloomberg News, the exposed data includes email addresses, mobile phone numbers, invoices, copies of identity documents and personal chat transcripts. The data were leaked online via the Twitter account “G0d” (@_0rbit) that has been suspended. ” reported France24.?. . It’s a lot of data that’s been dumped.”.

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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. . Limit the amount of personal information you post on social networking sites.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. Some are unaware of their involvement and fall victim to social engineering techniques like phishing scams.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. Can’t come up with a strong password? Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2023

Particularly in the workplace, staff can become overwhelmed with security warnings, IT alerts, cybersecurity policy documents, password change requests, or even media consumption of stories about data breaches at other companies. If employees aren't careful, they can fall for this social engineering tactic.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Navy insider threat case revealed in court documents. SecureWorld News just analyzed dozens of pages of court documents to understand this story of the Naval Engineer—an insider—who is accused of going rogue in a high-tech and high-stakes operation. Court documents do not reveal which country was he trying to sell to.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. A document sent from one colleague to another on a topic, which is currently being discussed, is unlikely to trigger any suspicion. Ultimately, it elevates the level of trust sufficiently for the document to be opened.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority. Hackers are well aware of this and collect passwords from credential dumps or the dark web. million to $4.24

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These emails were sent from a legitimate account owned by artifactuprising.com , a well known company located in Colorado that sells various gifts. Thank you, The malicious artifact then is the attachment that supposedly contains details about funds deposited in the victim’s bank account. This malicious document is an HTML file.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In other systems, other types of scripts were found, namely webshells, and also SMTP senders to leverage social engineering campaigns (Figure 6). Figure 6: SMTP senders used by criminals to leverage social engineering campaigns. Figure 5: WordPress header.php file with the cryptominer script harcoded. DOMAIN_NAME 192.168.x.xPerforming

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, the verification process requires customers to take a photo of their ID document. Next, a client is prompted to take a selfie or upload a video to confirm whether there’s a match with the document’s photo. Threat actors can abuse PII to conduct phishing and social engineering attacks. Next steps.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s a good idea to try things on your own and then read the documentation or tutorials. There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., Is Kali Beginner-friendly? Kali is available for anyone. It’s free and open-source, so anyone can download it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The Loki Bot attacks started in July and aimed at stealing passwords from browsers, messaging applications, mail and FTP clients, and cryptocurrency wallets. Loki Bot operators employ various social engineering technique to trick victims into opening weaponized attachments that would deploy the Loki Bot stealer.

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