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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 17, 2022

In what appears as an operation first of its kind, Interpol has arrested over 2000 criminals who launched social engineering attacks worldwide. But in reality, they pose as others and perform acts in such a way that the victim reveals sensitive info, such as bank account details or e-wallet information disclosure.

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Mitnick Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Social engineering attacks account for a massive portion of all cyber attacks, and studies show that these attacks are on the rise. According to KnowBe4 , more than 90% of successful hacks and data breaches start with a common type of social engineering attack called phishing.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 28, 2024

The post Apple OTP FAIL: ‘MFA Bomb’ Warning — Locks Accounts, Wipes iPhones appeared first on Security Boulevard. Rethink different: First, fatigue frightened users with multiple modal nighttime notifications. Next, call and pretend to be Apple support.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole impacting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that could be potentially exploited by threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster. The critical shortcoming has been codenamed Sys:All by cloud security firm Orca.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 16, 2023

Social engineering is a type of cybersecurity attack that aims to manipulate victims into sharing personal information, revealing account login, or exposing sensitive information that compromises their personal and/or company’s security, privacy, and finances.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

MailChimp announced it has been victim to a social engineering attack that threat actors successfully performed on the company`s employees and contractors. Hackers managed to obtain employee credentials and gain access to an internal customer support and account administration tool. The attack affected the data of 133 customers.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

In a short post on LinkedIn Rahul Sasi, founder and CEO of CloudSEK, explains how WhatsApp account takeovers are possible. The methods consists of several steps and it takes some social engineering skills, but it’s good to be aware of the possibility and how it works. Mitigation. Stay safe, everyone!

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims has become more the exception than the rule. In the case of Zelle scams, the answer is yes. ” Sen.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Microsoft announced that its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped to block a large-scale hacking campaign carried out by Akira ransomware operators (tracked by Microsoft as Storm-1567) The attack took place in early June 2023 and aimed at an industrial engineering organization. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. Parents have used the search engine to find pictures of their children that they were unaware off, for example.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2023

In the email, Gary Bragg, then-president of Pennsylvania law firm O'Neill, Bragg & Staffin, asked Staffin to wire $580,000 to a Bank of China account. A hacker had gained access to Bragg's email account and used it, along with information they'd learned about an ongoing loan transaction, to pose as Staffin's boss.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual.

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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. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM), we define social engineering as “any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interest.” If you Google “social engineering,” you will get a very different and more negative definition. This same perspective is used in social engineering attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2021

Engineering in startups is different. With lower product maturity, fewer resources, and less certainty about the future, startups have a whole bunch of constraints that must be taken into account when designing the product’s architecture and engineering procedures.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Popular email marketing service MailChimp recently fell victim to another data breach, this time caused by a successful social engineering attack on its employees and contractors. The incident was limited to 133 accounts, and there is no evidence that this compromise affected any other systems or customer data beyond these MailChimp accounts.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. Clearly, we need to take notice of how social engineering attacks are targeting our vital healthcare systems. So, what exactly is social engineering? What is Social Engineering? Engaging social engineering training is a must.

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Hacker's King

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

One of the most asked questions when we talk about Instagram hacking is " How to see private Instagram account posts " Many fake articles are circulating on Google search results that deceive people and earn money by displaying ads on their website. It can perform brute force attacks and also display texts associated with an account.

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Lenny Zeltser

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the CISO at a tech company, my responsibilities include empowering our software engineering teams to maintain a strong security posture of our products. While everyone agrees that security is important, the different incentives of security and engineering teams can make it harder to collaborate.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

via the respected Software Engineering expertise of Mikkel Noe-Nygaard as well as the lauded Software Engineering and Enterprise Agile Coaching talent of Luxshan Ratnara v at Comic Agilé !

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The report that was compiled after taking the response of over 400 cloud engineers and security analysts concluded that their cloud platforms suffered a variety of attacks in the past 12 months and that includes incidents related to ransomware, crypto mining malware attacks, infiltrations and breaches.

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NetSpi Executives

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Although many companies are adding new processes, technologies, and training materials to combat this, employees continue to fall victim to phishing, vishing, and other forms of social engineering attacks. For further information on each of our unique Social Engineering Pentesting solutions, check out our data sheet or contact us.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Assuming the user manages not to fat-finger the wrong button on the umpteenth password reset request, the scammers will then call the victim while spoofing Apple support in the caller ID, saying the user’s account is under attack and that Apple support needs to “verify” a one-time code. ” Ken said.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Now, throw a former Netflix software engineer into the mix. From statement by the Department of Justice : " After Sung Mo Jun left Netflix, he obtained additional non-public information about subscriber data from another Netflix employee, software engineer Ayden Lee, 33, of San Jose, California. Google executive. Twitter employees.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Malware Attack Explained Threat actors use social engineering […] The post Warning! New Malware Hijacks YouTube and Facebook Accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. Many social engineering, namely phishing, attacks today are launched by unsophisticated attackers using tools that automate much of the attack.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It doesn’t matter much if you are building the latest in cloud computing services or manufacturing paint, you most likely have a team of software engineers building proprietary systems and at the very least you rely heavily on commercial software to.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The researchers identified around 15,000 actor accounts, most of which were created for this campaign. Once delivered on the targets’ systems, the malware was used to steal their credentials and browser cookies which allowed the attackers to hijack the victims’ accounts in pass-the-cookie attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2024

Then they switch to the best practices to prevent social media account takeovers, highlighting […] The post The World of Scambaiting, Preventing Social Media Account Takeovers, Network Wrenches Hacked appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 2, 2022

But is discovered stealing FB credentials such as email and passwords, device names, device RAM, Device API, usernames, and account IDs from connected devices operating in over 71 countries. The post Malware steals Facebook account details from 300,000 devices appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 9, 2021

A new Android trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users in at least 144 countries since March 2021 via fraudulent apps distributed through Google Play Store and other third-party app marketplaces.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart? Organizations today still have a massive problem with phishing attacks, ransomware, account takeaways, and social engineering. The post Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart? Why is the blockchain transaction framework becoming the future of cybersecurity?

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Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2022

The attacker took over and defaced Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to the ‘happiest place on earth.’” One thing’s for certain—no one was happy when racist messages appeared on the popular theme park’s social media accounts in what Vulcan Cyber Senior Technical.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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