NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The application with the misconfiguration is “My Profile” which utilizes “My Account”, “My Apps”, and “My Signins” for additional functionality within the “My Profile” portal. Find more stories like these in our Azure Pentesting eBook.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations. For example, attackers may research their victims on social media or other online sources to gather personal information that can be used to make their phishing emails more believable.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Todays threat actors use AI to craft compelling phishing campaigns and advanced social engineering tactics to slip past MFA, resulting in credential theft and account takeovers. Phishing-resistant MFA ensures that even if a bad actor deceives a user, they cannot get their hands on reusable credentials or compromise accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. From a social engineering perspective, Zero Trust is a good mindset to have, mostly because it avoids the “guard the perimeter”, the "castle and moat" idea of security. A malicious social engineer might gain access to a system through compromising an insider.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Of those employees who opened a phishing message, more than half (53%) were likely to click on an embedded link, while 23% were prone to enter their account credentials on a fake login site. They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Without knowing much about me, she was very responsive and shared trust, insights, and tips in the right direction with me that contributed to my success and towards winning the social engineering capture-the-flag contest at DEF CON. Read Cisco’s eBook, Lifting Each Other Up: A Celebration of Women in Cybersecurity and Their Advocates.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 31, 2021

Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. Although this VPN infrastructure is efficient and current on its platform and software revision, it’s still a traditional security model and does not account for proper efficiency for cloud apps. One of the challenges of a Zero Trust program is people resistance to change.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

The top-five data points from the survey include: •92% of respondents are concerned about compromised credentials because of phishing or social engineering attacks, which points to the recent rise and success of both these attack vectors. •59%

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 19, 2025

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