Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews Usernames Names Government ID numbers (CURP) Phone numbers Email addresses Home addresses Dates of Birth Gender KYC status IP addresses used to register for an account IP addresses used to log in Deposit amounts Withdrawal amounts Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 15, 2023

Customer-facing organizations are also implementing MFA to mitigate identity-based attacks, such as phishing, and to help quash the rise in account takeover fraud. For five consecutive years , the leading cause of breaches has been compromised credentials — in other words, the use of stolen passwords. That's the good news.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

GitHub is experiencing issues of the “breached account and malicious code” variety. ITPro reports that unnamed individuals have been compromising accounts and using them to install malware capable of password theft. To make this scam work, attackers first obtained access tokens belonging to their targets.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. These methods aim to put end-users in an advantageous position when under attack or presented with anything suspicious. Social engineering has its tells, though.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Don’t make passwords easy to guess. Watch what you post on social media; cybercriminals often use them to gather Personal Identifying Information (PII) and corporate information. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Privacy and Security Settings.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Your passwords are on the internet. Talks of passkeys, passphrases, and even password less all point in one direction: eroding faith in the previously trusty password tucked under your keyboard. These habits highlight the need for more modern password technology and stronger authentication methods.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

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. PayPal phishing sites are a dime a dozen due to the number of people and companies using it as another form of payment method.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this thorough presentation, Grimes covers all elements of ransomware attacks, from working with lawyers to how attackers run a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation. Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. That will prevent the password guessing and the password spray attacks.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. .*) As we can see, LB3.exe exe is the main file.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks.

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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.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At Social-Engineer, we define impersonation as “the practice of pretexting as another person with the goal of obtaining information or access to a person, company, or computer system.” These emails can present a fake sense of authority that can very easily pressure an individual to take actions they normally wouldn’t.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Two former college graduates are in a lot of trouble after breaking into other students’ accounts and stealing sensitive personal data. Working with another former graduate, he accessed the school email accounts of dozens of college students and stole private nude photographs. What happened? Many of the images were then shared.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 7, 2021

The report showed that phishing pumped up its frequency to being present in 36% of breaches, up from 25% last year. When you try to open these links or attachments using your username and password, the hackers can get your credentials or gain access to the company’s intellectual property. billion malicious login attempts last year.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

For the tool to function, the operator must input a list of compromised email accounts to be scanned. It’s noteworthy that most of the victim accounts identified were predominantly from the U.K. Utilizing AI-driven bots for advanced social engineering techniques.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

It looks like similar techniques were used on Sir Grayson Perry’s stage show , where information was used to identify members of the audience and query details from their social media accounts live on stage. These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. This makes information gathering very hard.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

This is essentially the main password for the wallet. The seed phrase can be used for gaining or recovering access to the user’s account and making any transactions. Fairly simple and devoid of software or social engineering tricks, scams like these typically target non-technical users. ripple.com.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Suppose that, out of the blue, a Steam user tells you they’ve accidentally reported you for something you didn’t do, like making an illegal purchase, and that your Steam account is going to be suspended. And, based on its new latest iteration, it targets Steam users with a Discord account. What do you do? Via /u/Moritz_M05).

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The industry is strained by so many factors that proper cybersecurity protocols can be overlooked, presenting an opportunity for threat actors to try to turn a quick buck. The healthcare sector continues to be a high priority target for malicious threat actors, as it has been throughout the pandemic. million of its patients.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Opening the attachment presents the user with a fake Microsoft login screen, hoping to harvest the target’s password. However, to complicate matters, phishers have now been discovered sending legitimate DocuSign emails from legitimate DocuSign accounts. If the phishing site is unknown, a password manager can help.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

New research from security firm CloudSEK shows that more than 3,200 mobile applications were leaking Twitter API (Application Program Interface) keys, which can be used to gain access and take over user accounts. Of those, 230 were leaking all four authorization credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts.

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Identity IQ

MAY 16, 2023

Armed with the code, they can set up a Google Voice account that appears to be linked to your phone number. A Google Voice verification scam is a deceptive tactic used by criminals, both overseas and potentially within the United States, to exploit the process of enabling a Google Voice account. phone number.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2023

Particularly in the workplace, staff can become overwhelmed with security warnings, IT alerts, cybersecurity policy documents, password change requests, or even media consumption of stories about data breaches at other companies. If employees aren't careful, they can fall for this social engineering tactic.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority. Hackers are well aware of this and collect passwords from credential dumps or the dark web. million to $4.24

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

Social media accounts associated only with personal, non-business usage. is an electronic cyberattack that targets a user by email and falsely poses as an authentic entity to bait individuals into providing sensitive data, corporate passwords, clicks on a malicious web link, or execute malware. Remote access. Remote Access.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In other systems, other types of scripts were found, namely webshells, and also SMTP senders to leverage social engineering campaigns (Figure 6). Figure 6: SMTP senders used by criminals to leverage social engineering campaigns. Figure 5: WordPress header.php file with the cryptominer script harcoded. DOMAIN_NAME 192.168.x.xPerforming

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The deep web is also made up of content that is not indexed by search engines and requires a login to access. You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Some advanced network monitoring tools can automate this process, restricting accounts when they behave irregularly. This trend presents a valuable opportunity for hackers if there’s no in-transit encryption. Social engineering avoidance should be part of all workers’ onboarding processes.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

A victim who clicks a link in a message that promises, say, 1,000 likes in TikTok will be presented with a login form that looks like the real thing. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. Unlike the free data mentioned above, these have been checked, and even the account balances have been extracted.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Security professionals agree that passwords are low hanging fruit for cybercriminals and can even be the keys to the kingdom when the compromised passwords belong to privileged accounts. Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Last week I wrote a couple of different pieces on passwords, firstly about why we're going to be stuck with them for a long time yet and then secondly, about how we all bear some responsibility for making good password choices. This week, I wanted to focus on going beyond passwords and talk about 2FA.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

They claimed it was not them who was responsible for uploading malicious versions of Barcode Scanner , package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner, but an account named “The space team.” Here, we will show the evidence of the case presented by LavaBird. Also, we reported that account and app to Google.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. The companies, whose logos are displayed here, were chosen by BlueNoroff’s for impersonation in social engineering tricks. We have compiled a list of names and logos so you can watch out for them in your inbox.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

Step 2: Query Verification When HackerGPT receives the user’s query, it verifies the user’s identification and manages any query restrictions associated with the account. It also teaches users about social engineering, phishing , and brute force attacks. This differs for free and premium users.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff. to $199 for business accounts. There are two types to choose from: an individual account and a company account. But it works only for individual users.

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