Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Guidebooks are also available to instruct on how to exploit the information obtained, in order to more effectively target victims through social engineering and doxxing campaigns. The lack of a robust verification process, combined with the trust placed in authorities, increases the risk to users’ digital security and privacy.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

This intersection of sports, money, and digital activity makes for a perfect storm of social engineering attacks. RELATED: 5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks, with Examples ] The game plan: stay secure while enjoying March Madness So, how can fans and businesses enjoy the all the action without falling victim to cyber schemes?

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2025

No authentication is needed, making this a serious risk for affected devices. The vulnerability impacts Cisco Unified CM and Unified CM SME Engineering Special releases 15.0.1.13010-1 to 15.0.1.13017-1, regardless of configuration. These static credentials can’t be changed or deleted. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2025

The malware is delivered via social engineering, attackers attempt to trick victims into tapping cards on infected phones. Calls enable social engineering in a Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD) scenario. Analysis of the SuperCard X campaign in Italy revealed custom malware builds tailored for regional use.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Threat intelligence firm AhnLab and South Korea’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) linked the attack to the North Korean APT. The vulnerability is a scripting engine memory corruption issue that could lead to arbitrary code execution. ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft, which addressed the flaw in August.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2025

Microsoft announced that all new accounts will be “passwordless by default” to increase their level of security. Microsoft now makes all new accounts “passwordless by default,” enhancing protection against social engineering attacks, phishing, brute-force, and credential stuffing attacks.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

During this time, many government agencies and consumer protection organizations come together to help educate consumers on how to keep their personal and financial information secure. Social engineering attacks Social engineering attacks occur when someone uses a fake persona to gain your trust.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

Here's why you don't need it Beyond monitoring your credit, you may want to change your AT&T password and set up multi-factor authentication for your account, if you haven't already done so. Trey Ford, Chief Information Security Officer at crowdsourced cybersecurity firm Bugcrowd offers an interesting take.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The emails were highly targeted, using social engineering lures relating to Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the concept of Zero Trust.” . “On October 22, 2024, Microsoft identified a spear-phishing campaign in which Midnight Blizzard sent phishing emails to thousands of users in over 100 organizations.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A previous faulty update had already suggested broader problems with CrowdStrike’s security software at the time, though the problem didn’t receive that much publicity. XZ backdoor to bypass SSH authentication What happened? However, delegating tasks also introduces new information security challenges.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

Notifications & Social Engineering: Posts fake push notifications to trick users. Data Theft: Captures Google Authenticator screen content to steal OTP codes. Crocodilus steals OTP codes from Google Authenticator via Accessibility Logging, enabling account takeovers. ” ThreatFabric concludes.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

Kowski also emphasizes the need for a multi-layered security approach, stating that "multi-factor authentication, strong password policies, and zero-trust architecture are essential defenses that significantly reduce the risk of AI-powered attacks succeeding, regardless of how convincing they appear."

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

How to prepare a data breach response plan After containing the data breach, the next step is to secure and analyze all available evidence to understand the incident thoroughly. Collect and safeguard critical artifacts such as event logs, system logs, and authentication records from corporate systems.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls are your best friends here. Enhanced Governance Requirements Entities must appoint a qualified Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with a direct reporting line to the board of directors. Access Controls Whos got the keys to the kingdom?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

Despite broad distribution and 27K followers on X, authentic engagement was low, placing the operation at the high end of Category 2 for influence impact. The company pointed out that despite their tactics, the operation appeared to be in its early stages with limited authentic reach. and NATO, shared via Telegram and X. and Europe.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2025

The cybercriminals are using social engineering techniques to gain access to target organizations by impersonating employees or contractors. In many cases, threat actors employed methods to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA), by tricking victims’ help desk services to add unauthorized MFA devices to compromised accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2025

CVE-2025-53770 (ToolShell) exploit was initially used in targeted attacks against high-value organizations in sectors like tech consulting, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, and professional services tied to sensitive engineering and architecture. 76 , attackers used PowerShell to deploy a base64-decoded payload ( spinstall0.aspx

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Mo Wehbi, VP, Information Security & PMO, Penske Automotive Group: The Good and the Bad "The Good: Widespread Adoption of AI and Machine Learning for Threat Detection: AI will become more sophisticated and integral in identifying threats in real-time, reducing response times and mitigating risks faster than ever before.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

tr with a Human and Artificial Analyst Training Approach for Long Short-Term Memory Network Classifier Hacking whoAMI: A cloud image name confusion attack Xerox Versalink C7025 Multifunction Printer: Pass-Back Attack Vulnerabilities (FIXED) How Hackers Manipulate Agentic AI with Prompt Engineering Palo Alto Networks tags new firewall bug as exploited (..)

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Centraleyes

APRIL 21, 2025

While NIST 800-53, for example, provides a comprehensive security framework for federal agencies, it is not specifically tailored to the defense industrial base (DIB) in the same structured way as CMMC. Phishing and Social Engineering: Train employees on how to identify and report phishing attempts and other forms of social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2025

Increased risk from RMM tools IT operations and information security staff often need to remotely connect to machines dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of times per day to troubleshoot a problem or make a system function well. Exploitation of a vulnerability in the RMM product.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Identity services provider Okta warned customers of social engineering attacks carried out by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. Okta is warning customers of social engineering attacks carried out in recent weeks by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Okta , a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. He said that on Oct 2., Maiffret said BeyondTrust followed up with Okta on Oct.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability could be exploited by remote attackers to Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs). “An attacker who is able to extract the secret key would be able to authenticate to any Rockwell Logix controller.” ” reads the advisory published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed to improve security without hindering user convenience. What is Strong Authentication? The IAM Security Boundary Strong authentication is a critical component of modern-day identity and access management.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The FBI warns of cybercriminals using search engine advertisement services to impersonate brands and defraud users. The FBI is warning of cyber criminals using search engine advertisement services to impersonate brands and direct users to websites that were used to defraud users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zero Trust is a concept, an approach to information security that dramatically deviates from the approach commonly taken at businesses worldwide by security professionals for many years. And, of course, they must know, and be able to strongly authenticate, any human users as well.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Software development company Retool revealed that 27 accounts of its cloud customers were compromised as a result of an SMS-based social engineering attack. Once the employee’s account was compromised, the threat actors were able to navigate through multiple layers of security controls. ” continues the company.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Threat actors hacked the home computer of a DevOp engineer, they installed a keylogger as part of a sophisticated cyber attack. Password management software firm LastPass disclosed a “second attack,” a threat actor used data stolen from the August security breach and combined it with information available from a third-party data breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A proof of concept exploit for two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras is available online, users are recommended to immediately apply updates. “The identity authentication bypass vulnerability found in some Dahua products during the login process. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Twitter announced that its users can protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Twitter is going to allow its users to protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Threat actors have dramatically escalated their attacks – targeting security controls like multi-factor authentication (MFA), conducting wily social engineering attacks and extorting businesses large and small with ransomware. Since then, teams have had years to adjust to this new reality, yet the attackers have as well.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 18, 2021

Pereira discovered a bug that allowed him to make requests to Google’s internal servers and authenticated the access as privileged”, said Sharma, an Information Security Engineer at Google.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

Researchers released technical specifics and a PoC exploit for a recently disclosed flaw in Progress Software OpenEdge Authentication Gateway and AdminServer. “The Progress OpenEdge team recently identified a security vulnerability in OpenEdge Release 11.7.18 If a match occurs, authentication is granted.

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Google Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Posted by Harshvardhan Sharma, Information Security Engineer, Google We first announced the GCP VRP Prize in 2019 to encourage security researchers to focus on the security of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), in turn helping us make GCP more secure for our users, customers, and the internet at large.

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