SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2025

The result is a wave of new schemes that combine social engineering with digital forgery: Executive deepfake fraud: Fraudsters impersonate senior executives (CEO, CFO, etc.) Voice-cloned phone scams: Rather than crude phishing emails, scammers use AI voice synthesis to call bankers or customers while mimicking a trusted person's voice.

Banking

Penetration Testing

JULY 9, 2025

Its distribution now spans: Fake or cracked software downloads Spear phishing job scams, targeting high-value crypto holders and freelancers Once inside, victims are socially engineered to enter system passwords under the guise of enabling screen sharing or installing job-related software.

Malware

SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

List of in-the-wild 0-days caught and reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years Social activity What never ceases to impress us is how much effort Lazarus APT puts into their social engineering campaigns. On February 20, 2024, the attackers began their campaign, advertising their game on X.

Engineering

Security Through Education

JUNE 2, 2025

But lately, those little squares have been showing up in a much sneakier way, thanks to something called Quishing its basically phishing, but with a QR code. They may advertise a seemingly lucrative business opportunity for their company, drawing unsuspecting targets to apply. Through impersonation: Scammers have gotten creative.

Scams

Cisco Security

JULY 7, 2025

From a threat standpoint, attackers mostly used brute force to break down perimeter defenses while phishing, zero-days and other adaptive and evasive attacks weren’t on many people’s radar. In terms of technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) was still getting off the ground, and AI was largely still science fiction.

Cyber Risk

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. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

Cyber Attacks

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit. All rights reserved.

Passwords

SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

Primary infection vectors include phishing emails with malicious attachments or links, as well as trojanized legitimate applications. Lumma has also been observed using exploit kits, social engineering, and compromised websites to extend its reach and evade detection by security solutions.

Malware

Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2025

ChatGPT-Based Mutation Services: By mid-2023, underground forums began discussing and advertising custom AI models like WormGPT and FraudGPT fine-tuned for malicious tasks. This blog examines the first vector: AI-Generated Polymorphic Malware.

Malware

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit. All rights reserved.

Passwords

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

But with all the combined information about a person, it paints a very complete picture that insurance companies, advertisers, and even cybercriminals can use to their advantage.

Social Engineering

eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering is a common technique that cybercriminals use to lure their victims into a false sense of security. As social engineering tactics become more advanced, it’s important to know how to identify them in the context of cybersecurity. Social engineering in cybersecurity attacks.

Social Engineering

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries.

Phishing

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.” Threat actors are using domains like the following for this QR-code phishing activity: qr-s1[.]com What Happened? com qr-s2[.]com com qr-s3[.]com com qr-s4[.]com

Social Engineering

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven. But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

Scams

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio’s activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings.

Cryptocurrency

SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

Phishing

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Experts spotted a phishing campaign that employees overlay screens and email ‘quarantine’ policies to steal Microsoft Outlook credentials from the victims. Researchers from Cofense discovered a phishing campaign that uses overlay screens and email ‘quarantine’ policies to steal Microsoft Outlook credentials from the targets.

Social Engineering

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.

Phishing

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Cofense researchers spotted a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States to infect them with the Amadey malware. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States attempting to infect them with a new piece of malware named Amadey. Pierluigi Paganini.

Phishing

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock.

Encryption

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering

Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2024

Not only does this trick innocent victims into downloading malware or losing their data to phishing sites, it also erodes trust in brands and by association in Google Search itself. The core issue with brand impersonation comes from ads that appear as if they were from official sources and advertisers’ identities verified by Google.

Authentication

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.” Threat actors are using domains like the following for this QR-code phishing activity: qr-s1[.]com What Happened? com qr-s2[.]com com qr-s3[.]com com qr-s4[.]com

Social Engineering

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. They used official advertisements and provided a synopsis of the film on the website. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Trends of the year.

Phishing

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Meanwhile, a digital advertising company named Reindeer from New York is trending on Google for accidental data exposure. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. million files from a mis-configured Amazon S3 Bucket.

Data breaches

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The emails provide updates on the Coronavirus outbreak, it includes stats on the epidemic and contains an email of corona-virus@caramail.com that is likely used for phishing purposes. See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information. Pierluigi Paganini.

Malware

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails.

Social Engineering

Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

” The second issue, tracked as CVE-2020-9314 , could be exploited to inject external images which can be used for phishing and social engineering attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Government Communication Service website was publicly displaying information of about 45k Govt employees and details include email address, phone numbers and job titles, along with the social media account handles of some ministers and civil servants, including their Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.

Government

Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

” The Dream Job comes from the social engineering technique used by the attackers that used fake LinkedIn accounts to contact potential victims and use job offerings from prominent defense and aerospace entities as bait. Attackers sent to the victims weaponized spear-phishing messages using a malicious attachment.

Cyber Attacks

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In most cases, cybercriminals, while attacking cryptocurrency exchanges, use traditional tools and methods, such as spear phishing, social engineering, distribution of malware, and website defacement. Spear phishing remains the major vector of attack on corporate networks. Crypto exchanges: in the footsteps of Lazarus .

Cyber Attacks

Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

They drive people to phishing campaigns on a daily basis. It looks like a phish, but goes somewhere else entirely. From phish to website spam. Clicking the big grey “verify account” button should, in theory, lead you to an Apple phishing page. Some of them appear to be advertisements. Fake Apple mail.

Phishing

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The ability to ask any question on just about any topic and have a very intelligent answer given has cybersecurity experts wondering if the infosec community is using it and, if so, for what; and, if so, how is it working for writing scripts and code or imitating phishing emails, for instance. I had it write a phishing email.

InfoSec

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Chafer APT launched spear-phishing attacks, the messages were used to deliver multiple backdoors that allowed them to gain a foothold, elevate their privileges, conduct internal reconnaissance, and establish persistence in the victim environment. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Government

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in attacks carried out between August and September. As part of the recently observed campaign, the state-sponsored hackers used three different spear-phishing methods: Ending an email message leveraging social engineering methods.

Media

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Emotet is back, its operators leverage a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware, they are hijacking legitimate email conversations. The operators are hijacking legitimate email threads as part of a social engineering attack. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Social Engineering