SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

The use of an additional form of authentication to protect the accessing of a sensitive digital system has come a long way over the past decade and a half. An Israeli start-up, Silverfort , is seeking to make a great leap forward in the state-of-the-art of authentication systems. LW: Let’s come back to ‘adaptive authentication.’

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2024

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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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust. This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. Passwordless authentication. Onion networking.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Technology has a significant impact on addressing cybersecurity challenges. In the spirit of this year’s theme, we created a parody of the Monster Mash to share social engineering prevention tips far and wide.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

The targeted organizations are mostly found among government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors. From these instances the group reaches out through Teams messages and persuades targets to approve multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts initiated by the attacker.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Risk-Based Authentication (RBA) intelligently leverages more secure forms of authentication—like verified push—to help organizations respond to risk and step-up security measures to frustrate attackers, not trusted users. How does Risk-Based authentication reduce third-party risk? But just like Ms.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

From the start, two-factor authentication, or 2FA , established itself as a simple, effective way to verify identities with more certainty. Related: A primer on IoT security risks The big hitch with 2FA, and what it evolved into – multi-factor authentication, or MFA – has always been balancing user convenience and security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication standard enables email servers to check incoming emails to verify the sender and detect email message alterations. DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Once the recording (for this is what it turned out to be) began with the next line in the pre-programmed speech, with no acknowledgement of my response, I knew I was dealing with a robot powered by technology that simulated a real voice. With every passing day attackers grow more and more intelligent, creative, and technologically advanced.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Facebook shuts down their face recognition system and deletes more than a billion facial recognition templates, how phone bots are being used to trick victims into giving up their multi-factor authentication codes, and the US blacklists the NSO Group and 3 other companies for malicious cyber activities. ** Links mentioned on the show ** Face […].

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Hacker's King

MAY 20, 2023

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has become an essential security measure in the digital age. By impersonating the authenticated user, they can bypass the 2FA process altogether. Social Engineering: Guarding Against Manipulation Social engineering remains a potent tool in hackers’ arsenal.

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SecureList

APRIL 19, 2021

On April 8, 2021, we conducted a webinar with Ivan Kwiatkowski and Denis Legezo , Senior Security Researchers from our Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT), who gave live workshops on practical disassembling, decrypting and deobfuscating authentic malware cases, moderated by GReAT’s own Dan Demeter.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

All of these demands make your goals of implementing the most secure protocols, procedures and technology much more challenging. These challenges make it hard to follow the most secure practices: employing the most secure authentication methods, requiring constant re-authentication and only allowing access from corporate devices.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Not the ordinary kind, but the kind that makes the senior technical support engineer a top performer on his team at Duo Security — the kind that breathes life into the old cliché of working smarter, not harder. That is, answering the same question over and over and over can wear on engineers. It was very detailed and easy to read.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

Second, the design of security solutions struggled to scale up properly or adapt to the technological changes in the industry, especially in disaggregated compute networks. Seeing the flaws continue year after year, the industry began linking authentication of valid software components to the underlying hardware, or the “root of trust”.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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. It is usually a step in various fraud schemes.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2024

Developing a secured AI system is essential because artificial intelligence is a transformative technology, expanding its capabilities and societal influence. Initiatives focused on trustworthy AI understand the profound impacts this technology can have on individuals and society. Deployment.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 16, 2023

On Friday, DevOps platform CircleCI revealed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee’s laptop and stole their two-factor authentication credentials to compromise the company’s systems and data. According to CircleCI’s chief technology officer, Rob […].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The malicious build interferes with the authentication in sshd through systemd.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Technologies that synthesize realistic fake media, known as deepfakes, are among the newest tools being deployed to enable fraud. Authorities described it as a "new deception tactic" showing sophisticated technological capabilities. In the past, fraud often relied on simplicity and social engineering to trick victims.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated RCE [CVE-2021–21809] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Also, to access the upgrade.txt file, we do not need any authentication. The spellchecker plugin does not have to be enabled. URL [link] We can notice that moodle 3.10

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2024

A remote attacker can trigger the flaw to reboot PAN-OS firewalls when receiving Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) packets from Windows servers. The flaw affects only PAN-OS configurations with NTLM authentication enabled. The third DoS vulnerability addressed by the vendor is tracked as CVE-2024-3382.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI warn that nation-state actors are using ChatGPT to automate some phases of their attack chains, including target reconnaissance and social engineering attacks. LLM-supported social engineering : Leveraging LLMs for assistance with translations and communication, likely to establish connections or manipulate targets.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Natalie Silva , lead security engineer at Immersive Labs , said this flaw’s impact to enterprise customers could be significant, and lead to prolonged downtime. The latter vulnerability could expose NTLM hashes , which are used for authentication in Windows environments. 10 is the worst possible).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While AI and machine learning technology have advanced in capabilities, its sudden growth may be more due to its affordability and accessibility. With the rise and ease of use of deepfake AI technology, it is likely that hackers will add deepfakes to their arsenal. Can deepfakes be used to launch a cyber attack?”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I had the opportunity to sit down with DigiCert’s Jason Sabin , Chief Technology Officer and Avesta Hojjati , Vice President of Engineering to chew this over. And PKI is the best technology we’ve got to get us there. We met at DigiCert Trust Summit 2023.

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Adam Levin

MAY 15, 2019

The hacking group, called “The Community” primarily used social engineering (trickery) and SIM card hijacking to steal funds and cryptocurrency from their victims. Once authenticated, the mobile phone number of the target victim is moved to the criminal’s phone.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

AI engineers can train the AI model on a dataset of historical code changes. This frees up the DevSecOps teams to focus on higher-order tasks, such as testing and developing new authentication features. The AI model can then review new code changes automatically.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. 9, 2024, U.S. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

Multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) has raised the bar, but MFA alone is not enough to slow, much less stop, moderately-skilled bad actors. I spoke with Token CEO John Gunn and his engineering VP Evan K. about the role of advanced wearable authentication devices, going forward.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 3, 2024

This article delves into the various biometric authentication methods, explaining how they work and how biometrics can help prevent identity theft. This technology has become increasingly popular in daily life through features like Apple Face ID and Touch ID because of its security and reliability. What are Biometrics?

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 26, 2022

To do so, they ask you to perform a form of Google authentication in which, to confirm your identity, you need to provide them with a number that will be sent to your phone by either text or voice message. As such, the criminal’s request may seem innocuous, when it is anything but.

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