CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2023

All the ministers and government employees working in the UK were issued a warning when their official contact details were publicly available online until March 2020. The post Data Security Threat to UK Government Ministers and Civil Servants appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. “The threat actors behind the campaign are targeting Facebook business accounts by using Google ads and fake Facebook profiles that promote things like games, adult content, and cracked software, etc.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Navy insider threat: the nuclear engineer with data to sell. He is a government employee working as a Nuclear Engineer in the United States Navy. He knew warning signs the government would look for. Using snail mail, he sent an anonymous note and an SD card to a foreign government address. Government.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2021

23, 2021 Twitter booted a gaggle of accounts from its platform, including those determined to be associated with the Russian government and the well-known disinformation machine Internet Research Agency (IRA). The post Twitter Removes Russian Disinformation Accounts appeared first on Security Boulevard. president, are banned.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. billion fake accounts in 2021. Scammers often pretend to be contacting you on behalf of the government.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

government and defense entities. private sector and government computer systems,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Our National Security Cyber Section remains focused on disputing these cross-border hacking schemes and holding those responsible to account.” defense contractors and private companies.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Socially engineered SMS messages are being used to install malware on Android devices as part of a widespread phishing campaign that impersonates the Iranian government and social security services to make away with credit card details and steal funds from victims' bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. based e-commerce company, stealing personal and financial data on 1,300 government employees, and providing the data to an Islamic State hacking group.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this week’s podcast (#124): we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Part 2: social engineering’s threat to the software supply chain. Surprise, surprise: they're not french. Read the whole entry. »

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The Hacker News

APRIL 1, 2021

A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The post Tile Trackers Accountability Mode appeared first on Security Boulevard. When used for good, they can help you locate a stolen purse, a stolen car or bicycle, or even help you figure out where you misplaced your wallet. When used for evil, they can be used for.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

file exposed information that attackers could employ for lateral movement within the ministry’s systems, potentially escalating to anything from account takeover to a ransomware attack. MIM is a government body responsible for industry and mineral resources operations. Meanwhile, the now-closed MIM’s env. The exposed env.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

“Victims of the analyzed campaigns fit into the pattern preferred by this actor, such as air transport and government sectors in the Middle East,” reads the researcher paper published by the experts. The post Iran-linked Chafer APT group targets governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia appeared first on Security Affairs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. The post Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2023

The advisory was issued after two government firms fell prey to the attack and more is being investigated. According to the alert, cyber crooks are sending emails to employees of government agencies to download two legitimate RMM software- ScreenConnect (ConnectWise Control) and AnyDesk.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. – Government entities. Open our letter at your email. – Canada.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 8, 2022

Hamas-linked cybercrime organization dubbed ‘APT-C-23’ was noticed catfishing Israeli officials working in defense, law, enforcement, and government institutions, resulting in the deployment of new malware.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks. US Sanctions Iranian Officials : The US government sanctioned six Iranian officials in response to cyber attacks on an Israeli PLC vendor.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

The campaign targeted Israeli employees of large multinational organizations with a pay-related social engineering lure. sender account. “Additionally, this campaign is the first time Proofpoint has observed TA450 using a sender email account that matches the lure content.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

government, defense contractors, and private companies. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) is an organization within the Iranian government responsible for cybersecurity and cyber warfare. companies and government entities. entities using spear phishing and social engineering.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to our team, the exposed files belonged to the WBSC, the world governing body for baseball, softball, and Baseball5 – a recently introduced sport combining the previous two. Government-issued documents are arguably the most important form of identification a person holds. the team said.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. ” A month prior on Cracked, Everlynn posted a sales thread, “1x Government Email Account || BECOME A FED!,”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Barrie said the hacker was able to read messages and notes left on escrow.com’s account at GoDaddy that only GoDaddy employees should have been able to see. “This guy had access to the notes, and knew the number to call,” to make changes to the account, Barrie said.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added to the many user-friendly digital tools scammers, sextortionists, and hackers can leverage in order to manipulate their victims.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 22, 2021

Facebook has announced that it managed to take down two significant groups of hackers based in Palestine that were working to compromise Windows, Android, and Apple devices by using all kinds of tricks, includes social engineering, malware, modified apps and much more. Arid Viper.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. In mid-January, the government of Kyiv attributed the defacement of tens of Ukrainian government websites to Belarusian APT group UNC1151.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

The main targets of the Coldriver group are high-profile individuals in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), former intelligence and military officials, and NATO governments. The group uses social engineering techniques to persuade their targets to open documents or download malware.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2024

In other news about leaked personal data , a cybercriminal going by the name of “emo” claims they have 15 million unique records of project management tool Trello accounts for sale. Scammers are very good at using information found in breaches in social engineering attacks.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

A California state agency was victimized by a phishing incident last week in which an employee clicked on a link that provided access to the employee’s account for some 24 hours. In an announcement issued by SCO, officials said the improperly accessed email account was discovered promptly and access removed.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Cyber criminals who specialize in plundering local governments and school districts are in their heyday. This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. The total stolen: $2.3 The FBI is investigating. No arrests have been made.

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

The personal Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Warren Buffett in addition to the official corporate accounts of Apple, Uber, and Cash were hijacked for several hours July 15 in an apparent Bitcoin scam. All Bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back doubled!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group targeted dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide with Microsoft Teams phishing attacks. Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that the cyberspies conducted highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chat.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

We don’t know by whom, but we have account names: Jia Tan, Jigar Kumar, Dennis Ens. The companies benefiting from these freely available libraries need to actually step up, and the government can force them to. Certainly the security of these libraries needs to be part of any broad government cybersecurity initiative.

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