SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This may involve identifying compromised servers, web applications, databases, or user accounts. Disable compromised accounts or restrict their permissions immediately, update passwords for authorized users to prevent further unauthorized access. Establish a clear timeline and recreate the sequence of events leading to the data leak.

Data breaches

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Identity Providers (IdP) and Event Controls: Use IdPs like Okta or Azure AD to create role-based access controls (RBAC). Using a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system consolidates logs and detects anomalies, triggering alerts for the Security Operations Center (SOC) to triage incidents and respond to threats in real-time.

Social Engineering

SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction Since mid-2024, we’ve observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which we have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples.

Accountability

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches. To mitigate risks, organizations must enforce Zero-Trust principles, limit AI access to privileged accounts, and sanitize AI prompts. As compute costs decrease, autonomous operations and AI-discovered zero-day exploits loom.

Risk

SecureList

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Security incident statistics for 2024 In 2024, the MDR infrastructure received and processed on average 15,000 telemetry events per host every day, generating security alerts as a result. Human-driven targeted attacks accounted for 43% of high-severity incidents 74% more than in 2023 and 43% more than in 2022.

Phishing

Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

The malware also supports advanced keylogger capabilities by capturing all Accessibility events and screen elements. Notifications & Social Engineering: Posts fake push notifications to trick users. Crocodilus steals OTP codes from Google Authenticator via Accessibility Logging, enabling account takeovers.

Banking

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Activities during this week include engaging workshops, informative webinars, and community events, all designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate today’s cyber threats effectively. Change them regularly and avoid reusing passwords across different accounts.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The good news is that security teams can learn to anticipate these events and know exactly what to do to stop or prevent them. Training employees about the dangers of phishing will also pay off, as it prepares them to avoid social engineering attacks, reducing not only the risk of ransomware, but a wide range of other cyberattacks.

DDOS

SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

List of in-the-wild 0-days caught and reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years Social activity What never ceases to impress us is how much effort Lazarus APT puts into their social engineering campaigns. Is that really all this game has to offer? First, we discovered that the game uses the Socket.IO

Engineering

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But a hallmark of the event since it was first held in 2009 is visiting speakers who aren’t afraid to challenge popular narratives. Phillip Larbey, associate director for EMEA at Verizon, said the vast majority of cyber incidents involve at least one of three elements – human error, social engineering and ransomware.

Artificial Intelligence

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address. com account[.]datedeath[.]com com account[.]turnkeycashsite[.]com Indicators of Compromise Redirect deel[.]za[.]com com Phishing domains login-deel[.]app app accuont-app-deel[.]cc

Phishing

SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates. polling loop, sleeping for 10 seconds between checks for incoming events emitted by the C2 server.

Banking

Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The healthcare sector has been particularly hard-hit, accounting for over 30% of the total breaches. Many organizations overlooked the significance of educating their workforce about potential threats and safe online behavior, which is essential in combating social engineering attacks.

Risk

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Step 2: Customized solutions for the environment Pestie parallel: Pestie sends pest-control solutions tailored to the homeowner's specific environment, accounting for factors like location, climate, and common pests in the area. Waiting for an attack to occurlike waiting for pests to infest your homeleads to higher costs and more damage.

CISO

SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With large-scale security crises being one of the most relevant threats worldwide, it’s more important than ever to reflect on past events, assess emerging threats, and, most crucially, explore strategies to prevent future incidents. Kaspersky presented detailed technical analysis of this case in three parts. Why does it matter?

Internet

Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

In a BreachForums post on December 4, 2024, a user claimed to have used infostealers to identify 21 Zabbix accounts vulnerable to CVE-2024-42327 (see Figure 2). Many organizations rely on RMM tools for help-desk support, enabling IT staff to take control of user accounts.

Scams

Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2025

Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sound more authentic and eliminate any spelling errors. Secure your accounts Change the passwords on all your online accounts, especially financial and email accounts.

Scams

Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation, officially known as 23 NYCRR Part 500, is a forward-thinking framework designed to protect consumers sensitive data while holding businesses accountable for their cybersecurity practices. Incident Response Plan If a breach occursits all about how you respond.

Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2025

By the end of this phase, you should have two core outputs that will inform the next stages of analysis: Timeline : Reconstruct your exam attempt as accurately as possible by capturing timestamps of your actions; break down each event by challenge set, machine, attack stage (e.g.,

Penetration Testing

SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

They are intended to highlight the significant events and findings that we think are important for people to know about. In addition, this year’s updated version of the GREASE malware creates backdoor accounts to use RDP connections under the names “Guest” and “IIS_USER”, respectively.

Malware

Jane Frankland

JUNE 24, 2025

It’s the one that continues to resurface, both in boardrooms and at industry events: “Why are people still the weakest link?” The UK Government’s refreshed Cyber Governance Code of Practice sets a clear direction with guidance, and is holding boards accountable for human cyber risk. I froze when the question came in. The good news?

Cyber Risk

NetSpi Executives

JULY 7, 2025

Once your data enters these underground markets, it can be resold, combined with other datasets, and used by criminals for highly targeted spear-phishing campaigns, business email compromise attacks, and social engineering schemes that traditional security measures struggle to detect.

Social Engineering

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. Cloud services alerts increased by 20% due to rising cloud account usage, while malicious file alerts in phishing attacks remain high, exploiting users’ tendencies to open files.

Cyber Attacks

Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2025

Your time-management strategy should also account for the maintenance of your own body: plan your meals in advance, step away from the screen while eating, and stay well hydrated.

Penetration Testing

BH Consulting

MAY 28, 2025

Common ways of infiltrating victim organisations include social engineering against employees and stolen credentials. Giving the example of a fictitious company that develops an AI app, she said that the company could publish a corporate and social responsibility (CSR) report, branded to look like its being responsible.

Scams

Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

More generally, organisations should consider updating security strategy to account for the elevated threat from AI-powered attacks. Under Attack? 6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime.

Cyber Risk

Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

Podcast TechstrongTV - Twitch Library Related Sites Techstrong Group Cloud Native Now DevOps.com Security Boulevard Techstrong Research Techstrong TV Techstrong.tv authored by Marc Handelman.

Social Engineering

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” After mass email spam events, the targeted users were added to Microsoft Teams chats with external users. What Happened? com supportserviceadmin.onmicrosoft[.]com

Social Engineering

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.

Social Engineering

SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2023

Specifically, the advisory highlights the utilization of social engineering techniques by DPRK state-sponsored cyber actors, with a focus on their hacking activities targeting think tanks, academia, and media organizations worldwide. At the forefront of these cyber threats is a group known as Kimusky.

Social Engineering

Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

Getting these products in front of real world audiences at an event is sure to boost sales. Soon after paying, the organiser vanishes and you realise you’re £60 to £75 out of pocket for a three day event. The fake organisers create brand new Facebook accounts, and often reuse the same name across muliple profiles.

Scams

Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2020

Schools and companies should consider the following: Set up accounts with competing services: While Zoom holds a dominant position, it is by no means the only video conferencing platform for meetings or for education. Competing services such as Skype and Google Meet offer free versions.

Backups

Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2022

The email’s subject line, “Microsoft account unusual sign-in activity”, is always guaranteed to attract some attention. Report the user Thanks, The Microsoft account team. Instead, it’s a Mailto: URI which opens a fresh email with a pre-filled message to be sent to a specific email account. Miss it, miss out.

Accountability

Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

Accountability

SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2021

Social engineering tricks are constantly used by threat actors to gain access to an individual's account or even an entire organization's system. SecureWorld recently wrapped up one of its Remote Sessions to talk about the issue of social engineering, including best practices and how to avoid being fooled by a cyber criminal.

Social Engineering

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.

Hacking

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. ” MICROBILT.

Identity Theft