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Mobile Malware Uses Deepfakes, Social Engineering to Bypass Biometric Authentication

SecureWorld News

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware.

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Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator

Malwarebytes

If you were trying to download the popular Google Authenticator (a multi-factor authentication program) via a Google search in the past few days, you may have inadvertently installed malware on your computer. Fake site leads to signed payload hosted on Github The fraudulent site chromeweb-authenticators[.]com

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Social Engineering: Definition, Types, Detection & Prevention

Spinone

What is social engineering? Social engineering is a manipulative technique used by criminals to elicit specific actions in their victims. Social engineering is seldom a stand-alone operation. money from a bank account) or use it for other social engineering types.

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Blacktail: Unveiling the tactics of a notorious cybercrime group

CyberSecurity Insiders

In recent months, a cybercrime group known as Blacktail has begun to make headlines as they continue to target organizations around the globe. Two of the most popular tools that have been used by the cybercrime group are LockBit 3.0 The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. Both LockBit 3.0

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Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

Krebs on Security

A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider , a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , Mailchimp , and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. man arrested was a SIM-swapper who went by the alias “ Tyler.”

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page.

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Cybercriminals attack banking customers in EU with V3B phishing kit – PhotoTAN and SmartID supported.

Security Affairs

These include: Social engineering tactics SIM swapping schemes Banking and credit card fraud” The attackers use various social engineering and spoofing tactics to trick victims into revealing their sensitive information, which supports real-time interaction to abuse and bypass MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication).

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