eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

New AI-powered cybercrime tools suggest that the capability of AI hacking tools may be evolving rapidly. The creator of FraudGPT, and potentially also WormGPT , is actively developing the next generation of cybercrime chatbots with much more advanced capabilities.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

According to Statista.com, the impact of cybercrime is expected to reach almost $13 trillion this year. With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. You should always stop and verify.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Security experts suggest countermeasures will be needed such as digital authentication of meeting attendees. In the past, fraud often relied on simplicity and social engineering to trick victims. The combination of computing power and Trojan horse psychological manipulation is producing a new era of highly deceptive cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Cybercriminal groups can use chatbot like ChatGPT in social engineering attacks, disinformation campaigns, and other cybercriminal activities, such as developing malicious code. Disinformation: ChatGPT excels at producing authentic sounding text at speed and scale. ” reads the alert published by the Europol.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

Shedding the light of the law on cybercrime methods Today’s cybercrime landscape involves criminals operating across borders as business-like syndicates, says Europol. The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Frank Abagnale, one of the world's most respected authorities on forgery, embezzlement, secure documents, cybercrime, and scams—and subject of the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can — kicked off Vision 2023: Looking Ahead at Cyber Threats , a half-day educational event held live and recorded on December 13th.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

These days, financial cybercrimes often involve Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Victims are lured into downloading the malware with a variety of social engineering tactics, including spearphishing. Educate users on social engineering attacks like spearphishing. Spearphishing campaigns.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Detective Inspector also went on to suggest making use of two-factor authentication (2FA), which is great advice. This could put those people at an increased risk of social engineering or identity theft. They create and remember strong passwords to prevent reuse, and many will refuse to sign in to bogus websites.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In this report, we walk through a real-world case study of how a socially engineered phishing attack worked on a popular company, and show you some steps on how it could have been prevented. This report guides you through some big questions and answers about phishing, including: What is social engineering?

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. Most if not, all social engineering attacks will attempt to trigger some emotion such as urgency, fear, greed, or curiosity. Update your software. Rosa Rowles.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

ransomware builder used by multiple threat actors Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software Cybercrime Unpacking the MOVEit Breach: Statistics and Analysis Cl0p Ups The Ante With Massive MOVEit Transfer Supply-Chain Exploit FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cyber Takedown U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future attacks to impersonate valid users. Many users of the customer support system are Okta administrators.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been around for many years now, but few enterprises have fully embraced it. In fact, according to Microsoft’s inaugural “ Cyber Signals ” report, only 22 percent of all its Azure Active Directory (AD) enterprise clients have adopted two-factor authentication (2FA), a form of MFA.

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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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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. . Improve 2FA and OTP messaging to reduce confusion about employee authentication attempts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here are five specific trends for 2023 that you need to be aware of: The business of cybercrime will be further professionalized. The return of malware strains like Emotet, Conti and Trickbot indicates an expansion of cybercrime for hire. To combat cybercrime, organizations keep investing into IT security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Microsoft observed a large-scale phishing campaign that used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to steal passwords, hijack a user’s sign-in session, and bypass the authentication process even when the victim has enabled the MFA. and certificate-based authentication. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Cybercrime gang FIN7’s badUSB attacks serve as a reminder of two key vulnerabilities present among all organizations. Social engineering is a prerequisite to almost all cyberattacks. As FIN7 demonstrated, it was because of social engineering that the attacks were successful.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Spear phishing is a targeted form of cybercrime that focuses on specific individuals or organizations. The selection process involves meticulous research and social engineering to help identify potential targets. Strengthen Your Defenses Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). What Is Spear Phishing?

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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. This targeting can occur in at least one of two ways.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The phishing campaign bypassed native Google Workspace email security controls because it passed both DKIM and SPF email authentication. The page was crafted to request the victims to enter their user ID and password. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, American Express).

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

The increasing popularity of cryptocurrency is attracting cybercrime that is using different means to target the cryptocurrency industry. Experts also warn of scams and other social engineering attacks that cybercriminals use to trick victims into sending funds to the attackers’ wallets.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. Then, we’ll go over the basic, foundational techniques most scammers find themselves using, such as social engineering and phishing. Social Tactics. Basic phishing and social engineering techniques are still the most common starting point for cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Besides Artificial Intelligence to scale operations, in a novel approach to circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA), the perpetrators crafted malicious Android code that mimics official mobile banking applications. The use of Artificial Intelligence in cybercrime is not a completely novel concept.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Antivirus software—or more correctly, its modern descendents endpoint security and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)—are essential tools in the battle against cybercrime. EDR can detect an intruder's suspicious activity in advance of them running ransomware, as well as being able to identify the ransomware itself.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. According to the FBI, phishing was the most common type of cybercrime last year—nearly doubling in frequency between 2019 and 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The popular investigator and journalist Brian Krebs first surmised that the LAPSUS$ gang has breached T-Mobile after he reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the cybercrime group. Telegram channels that were restricted to the core seven members of the group – Source KrebsonSecurity. ” wrote Krebs.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2023

This includes implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms that are resistant to phishing attempts, as well as maintaining a heightened awareness of social engineering attacks. In response, it's imperative for individuals and organizations to adopt robust security practices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

The company was the victim of a social engineering attack aimed at its employees. We also recommend two-factor authentication and other account security measures for our users as added measures to keep accounts and passwords secure.” The attack resulted in the compromise of employee credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

A phishing campaign that Microsoft security researchers have been tracking for about a year highlights not only the ongoing success of social engineering efforts by hackers to compromise systems, but also the extent to which the bad actors will go to cover their tracks while stealing user credentials. Invoice-Themed Lures.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

If someone is in your organization's Slack channel, then they are authenticated and the environment is secure. The group was able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 and the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers other popular games, such as Battlefield. You want to believe it is true.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2023

Some highlights include: Stealers are primarily sold on cybercrime forums. This demonstrates a focus on collecting data from multi-factor authentication tools. Zero-Day attacks get the headlines when they happen, but users falling for phishing attacks or other social engineering attacks happen every day without fail.

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