SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect. Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day.

Scams

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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.

Phishing

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches. Marketing efforts will increasingly highlight these autonomous AI models as the next frontier, touting their ability to detect, respond to, and even mitigate threats in real-time – all without human input.

Risk

Duo's Security Blog

MAY 28, 2025

Thats why were proud to announce that Duo is officially expanding into the IAM market, bringing our trusted security expertise to an area long overdue for disruption. Seamless Help Desk Verification: A new tech partnership enabling identity verification for help desks, safeguarding against social engineering attacks.

Social Engineering

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. These are real threats, but they are not novel.

Artificial Intelligence

SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

While the AI-generated malware in this case required manual intervention to function, the fact that these systems can produce even semi-functional malicious code is a clear signal that security teams need to adapt their strategies to account for this emerging threat vector."

Malware

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

The company operates both physical stores and online services, with a strong presence in the UK and some international markets. BleepingComputer reported that DragonForce ransomware affiliates usedScattered Spider social engineering tacticsto target Marks and Spencer.

Data breaches

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). How Specialized Affiliates and Smarter Tactics Are Accelerating Ransomware The RaaS market is growing, both in the number of publicly named victims and in diversity.

Scams

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Therefore, many markets seem primed for a joint AI-VR combination to enhance products and services and improve accuracy, among other benefits. Organizations can also use AI to detect anomalies or suspicious behavior that might indicate a compromised account.

Artificial Intelligence

IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code. The weak point of all passwords is that the secret, once revealed, is useless as a defence.

Passwords

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Counteracting the clichés One common storyline we see in cybersecurity marketing is how criminals’ use of AI is a major threat. 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

Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

While details remain sparse, reports suggest social engineering tactics like phishing, SIM swapping, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks may have been used to infiltrate systems. The attack on M&S, which is still unfolding, has wiped more than 750 million off the companys market value.

Cyber Attacks

Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2025

Other students can benefit from networking by finding accountability partners, joining study groups, discovering new exploitation strategies, and staying emotionally grounded throughout this challenging process. If youre entering the cybersecurity job market, I highly recommend the Infosec Job Hunting w/ BanjoCrashland YouTube playlist.

Penetration Testing

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

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

Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance. These challenges include bias and discrimination embedded in algorithms, privacy violations due to enhanced surveillance capabilities, and the difficulty of assigning accountability for decisions made by AI systems.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

APRIL 18, 2025

Especially common among cloud providers and SaaS vendors, these reports help separate marketing claims from actual, audited safeguards. Good responses are clear, specific, and show accountability. The key takeaway: even strong internal controls can be bypassed through social engineering. Can you live with the risks?

Risk

Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2025

While certifications arent strict gatekeepers to the industry or career advancement, an employer may eventually require you to pursue more advanced practical exams (or you may feel pressured to do so to stay competitive in the job market).

Penetration Testing

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Identity theft will evolve: Stolen identities will fuel new fraud schemes, like creating crypto accounts in victims names. Market Consolidation of GenAI Tools: The GenAI market may scale down to a few robust and reliable GenAI tools, creating global standards and improving tool quality.

Cybersecurity

Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The rise of AI-driven phishing and social engineering, increased targeting of critical infrastructure, and the emergence of more sophisticated fileless malware are all trends that have shaped the cybersecurity battlefield this year. The market share of ransomware attacks on business with under 100 employees is now almost 40%.

Malware

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

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The majority of the records were labelled as background checks which contained full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, employment history, family members, social media accounts, and criminal record history. SL Data Services markets itself as a provider of real estate information reports.

Social Engineering

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. Adding to this complexity, malefactors leverage the power of AI to carry out smarter attacks.

Identity Theft

Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2025

According to a new analysis from Malwarebytes, when compared to iPhone users, Android users share less of their personal information for promotional deals, more frequently use security tools, and more regularly create and manage unique passwords for their many online accounts. They also, it turns out, fall victim to fewer scams.

Scams

Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

It offers previously out-of-reach opportunities for business leaders to anticipate market trends and make better decisions. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently warned that such models could be especially vulnerable to attack if developers rush them to market without adding adequate security provisions.

Cyber Risk

Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

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

Social Engineering

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

Social Engineering

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. The post No Code / Low Code for Social Engineering appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Social Engineering

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.

Cryptocurrency

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 company temporarily suspended access for accounts where suspicious activity was detected in order to protect user data.

Social Engineering

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.”

Social Engineering

Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings. The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts.

Social Engineering

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com) com) targeting AT&T employees.

Phishing

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.

Social Engineering

Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

As first reported here on July 16, prior to bitcoin scam messages being blasted out from such high-profile Twitter accounts @barackobama, @joebiden, @elonmusk and @billgates, several highly desirable short-character Twitter account names changed hands, including @L, @6 and @W. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

Hacking

The Hacker News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal support and account admin tool to obtain information about 133 customers.

Social Engineering