Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The benefit of these codes is that they are random numbers, so they can be difficult to guess, and they cannot be reused across a user’s different accounts (like passwords typically are). Social Engineering: An attacker logs in with a user’s credentials and the real user gets sent an OTP.

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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. SIM-card swapping attacks: A cybercriminal uses social engineering tactics to transfer a user's mobile phone number to a new SIM card owned by the criminal.

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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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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. Additionally, existing JavaScript files already present in the project are tampered with to add malware.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer.

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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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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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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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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is dedicated to enlightening the world on digital security and since this week’s focus is on the use of passwords, we want to take a brief look at the past, present and future of them (or in the case of future we should say “passwordless”).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

Social engineering – specifically malicious cyber campaigns delivered via email – remain the primary source of an organization’s vulnerability to attack. Social engineering is a profitable business for hackers – according to estimates, around 3.4 billion phishing e-mails get delivered every day.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This article explains how people can hack your credit card account, the different types of credit card fraud, how to help prevent credit card fraud, and what your next steps should be. Card Present Fraud Before the days of online purchases, card-present fraud was the most common type of credit card fraud.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The business cautioned: “We have found that these vulnerabilities are unlikely to be perceived as mass exploits, but several of them potentially present a mechanism for knowledgeable attackers to hack high-value sites via tailored attacks.” WordPress websites that support background updates automatically will receive a patch.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

Presently, preliminary analysis suggests that there is a data breach in their network. Microsoft Azure news is the fourth news that is trending on the google platform and is related to shared key authorization that is enabled by default when created to info storage accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. Cryptocurrency and NFT attacks are rising as decentralized finance, and digital art assets become sophisticated socially engineered threats. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

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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. But what can organizations do to effectively mitigate the threats of ransomware?

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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

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s also used to spam people from compromised accounts. On top of all that, the social pressure of “Please help me out” is often too good to let go. People want to be helpful, and this slice of social engineering takes full advantage of this. Hard-earned items will vanish, after being sent to other accounts.

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

She spoke about various voting count incidents and the lack of accountability in very specific incidents. Unfortunately, Kim didn’t provide any mention of accountability for the decision-makers behind the Colonial fiasco. Hopefully he will be in-person for future work. Their live action vishing challenge is a thrill.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here’s the message in question: "We have detected some fraudulently activities with your PayPal account. At this point, it’s all about social engineering personal details under the guise of a PayPal fraud department. PayPal offers several forms of security to help keep accounts safe. Keeping your PayPal safe.

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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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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

The seed phrase can be used for gaining or recovering access to the user’s account and making any transactions. The seed phrase cannot be changed or recovered: by misplacing it, the user risks losing access to their wallet for good, and by giving it to scammers, permanently compromising their account. ripple.com.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 20, 2018

For example, an adversary can try to trick a victim into transferring money to a different account than the one intended. To achieve this the adversary might use social engineering techniques such as phishing and vishing and/or tools such as Man-in-the-Browser malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2022

There will be a direct correlation in 2023 of compromised accounts, either stolen or sold, that will be used to attack an organization in minimally observed communication channels. Reducing the risk present in business communication tools begins with visibility. Ensure Visibility Across All Communication Channels.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2022

Several things stand out in the 2022 report: Ransomware challenges continue to mount — “Ransomware’s heyday continues, and is present in almost 70% of malware breaches this year.” ” Social engineering became an overwhelming problem this past year, highlighting the surge in repeated cybercrime tactics — 1.

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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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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 13, 2021

This is, of course, is in addition to all of their personal accounts and passwords which are sometimes used on the same device as their work accounts. . With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that somewhere between 20% and 50% of calls to the helpdesk are related to accounts being locked, or password resets. .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

Voicemail-themed phishing campaigns continue to be a successful social engineering theme used by this threat actor to lure victims in opening a malicious attachment. The goal of the threat actor is to steal credentials of Office365 and Outlook accounts, both of which are widely used in large enterprises. Key points. Conclusion.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers reported Tuesday that they found two email phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 mailboxes at FedEx and DHL Express that look to extract a user’s work email account. They want to get people to click what they think is a valid link and then present them with a fake login page that they will recognize,” Hazelton said. “If

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Scattered Spider, on the contrary, highlights the peril posed when ready-made RaaS software merges with seasoned experience: In both of their casino breaches, the group employed advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), including in-depth reconnaissance, social engineering, and advanced lateral movement techniques.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The list can go on, as cybercriminals are quick to adapt to new social, political, economic, and cultural trends, coming up with new fraudulent schemes to benefit from the situation. The larger the subscription base, the greater the number of fraudulent key-selling schemes and attempts at stealing accounts.

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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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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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