Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Cybercriminals exploit compromised accounts for EDR-as-a-Service (Emergency Data Requests – EDR), targeting major platforms According to a detailed analysis conducted by Meridian Group, an increasingly complex and structured phenomenon, commonly referred to as EDR-as-a-Service, is taking hold in the cybersecurity landscape.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2025

officials to build trust and access personal accounts. Threat actors send malicious links posing as messaging platform invites to access officials’ accounts, then exploit contacts to impersonate and extract data or funds. ” reads the alert issued by the FBI.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

BeyondTrust’s security team detected that someone was trying to use an Okta account assigned to one of their engineers to create an all-powerful administrator account within their Okta environment. He said that on Oct 2., 2 was not a result of a breach in its systems. But she said that by Oct. But she said that by Oct.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Fittingly, Radaris now pimps OneRep as a service when consumers request that their personal information be removed from the data broker’s website. Instead, we doubled down and published all of the supporting evidence that wasn’t included in the original story, leaving little room for doubt about its conclusions.

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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.” These external users set their profiles to a “DisplayName” designed to make the targeted user think they were communicating with a help-desk account.

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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. But Warren did get the requested information from PNC, Truist and U.S.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The email informs John that the company suffered a security breach, and it is essential for all employees to update their passwords immediately. 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. What is social engineering?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2025

This update must be completed by 2025-03-16 to avoid any potential penalties or disruptions to your account. Once logged in, follow the prompts to review and confirm your tax information. Perhaps they’ll sell the details on the dark web, or use them for themselves to get access to your Microsoft accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2025

Microsoft announced that all new accounts will be “passwordless by default” to increase their level of security. Microsoft now makes all new accounts “passwordless by default,” enhancing protection against social engineering attacks, phishing, brute-force, and credential stuffing attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

“CyberAv3nger accounts also asked our models high-level questions about how to obfuscate malicious code, how to use various security tools often associated with post-compromise activity, and for information on both recently disclosed and older vulnerabilities from a range of products.” ” continues the report.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

Using a fully authenticated web worker, this phishing kit is using a legitimate hosted web service called Pusher with the intent of manipulating sensitive profile data fields related to banking and payment information. Protect yourand your family’spersonal information by using identity protection. com account[.]datedeath[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

. “These conversations include minimal customer information and are used for frontline reps to escalate issues to managers,” said Lisa Belot , Sprint’s communications manager. Perhaps more importantly for Sprint and its customers, the forum also included numerous links and references to internal tools and procedures.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

During this time, many government agencies and consumer protection organizations come together to help educate consumers on how to keep their personal and financial information secure. Millions of customers were put at risk when their social security numbers, phone numbers, and other sensitive personal information were leaked.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this article, we will dive deep into the sea of phishing and vishing, sharing real-world stories and insights we’ve encountered during social engineering tests to highlight the importance of awareness. The customer didn’t provide any other information. Unfortunately for me, they had MFA enabled on all of their accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cybercriminals employ social engineering techniques to trick you into believing you must resolve fictitious technical issues. The hallmark of ClickFix campaigns is their clever use of social engineering. Lumma stealer: Designed to harvest personal information and sensitive data from infected devices.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2025

The cybercriminals are using social engineering techniques to gain access to target organizations by impersonating employees or contractors. In many cases, threat actors employed methods to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA), by tricking victims’ help desk services to add unauthorized MFA devices to compromised accounts.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While the company assures that sensitive information like full payment details and Social Security numbers were not compromised, the incident serves as another reminder of the vulnerabilities that can arise from external partnerships. What happened? What data was compromised? How did this happen?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts tied to Russian and Chinese hackers using the tool for malware, social media abuse, and U.S. OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts that were used by Russian-speaking threat actors and two Chinese nation-state actors. We banned the OpenAI accounts used by this adversary.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2025

The malware is delivered via social engineering, attackers attempt to trick victims into tapping cards on infected phones. Calls enable social engineering in a Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD) scenario. Analysis of the SuperCard X campaign in Italy revealed custom malware builds tailored for regional use.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2025

Qantas has also set up a dedicated support line and webpage to keep customers informed, and will provide ongoing updates through its website and social media. “We Our customers trust us with their personal information and we take that responsibility seriously. “We ” Qantas Group Chief Executive Officer Vanessa Hudson said.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

LAPSUS$ typically threatens to release sensitive data unless paid a ransom, but with most victims the hackers ended up publishing any information they stole (mainly computer source code). The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

Attackers are mimicking tournament brackets, betting promotions, and registration formstricking users into handing over credentials or linking bank accounts to fraudulent sites. This intersection of sports, money, and digital activity makes for a perfect storm of social engineering attacks. Awareness and vigilance.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

The government says Ferizi and his associates made money by hacking PayPal and other financial accounts, and through pornography sites he allegedly set up mainly to steal personal and financial data from visitors. ” [Side note: It may be little more than a coincidence, but my PayPal account was hacked in Dec.

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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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Scattered Spider members are part of a broader cybercriminal community called “The Com,” where hackers brag about high-profile cyber thefts, typically initiated through social engineering tactics like phone, email, or SMS scams to gain access to corporate networks. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2025

The malware then exfiltrates sensitive data, including cryptocurrency wallet credentials, personal information, and private keys. Once the attacker has control, they can not only steal sensitive information but also manipulate the victim's actions, making it harder to detect malicious activity.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In a stunning blow to the city’s cybersecurity defenses, Columbus, Ohio, recently became the target of a massive cyberattack that exposed over half a million residents’ sensitive information. This data reportedly includes everything from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and bank account details. With over 6.5

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SecureWorld News

MAY 9, 2025

LOSTKEYS is capable of stealing files from a hard-coded list of extensions and directories, along with sending system information and running processes to the attacker," GTIG reported. The method, known as "ClickFix," leverages social engineering to bypass traditional email-based defenses.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Using a very clever social engineering attack that exploits trusted domains, the adversary can then further escalate the profile hijacking attack to steal passwords from the victims browser. For more information about the browser syncjacking attack, additional findings from this research are available at sqrx.com/research.

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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. “Would you like to earn millions of dollars?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

But new information suggests that at least two of them operated a service that resold access to Twitter employees for the purposes of modifying or seizing control of prized Twitter profiles. A screenshot of a Discord discussion between the key Twitter hacker “Kirk” and several people seeking to hijack high-value Twitter accounts.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 16, 2025

The stolen information was then used in social engineering scams that tricked users into giving away their crypto. These insiders abused their access to customer support systems to steal the account data for a small subset of customers, Coinbase said in a blog post. Masked Social Security numbers (last four digits).

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