Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In early September, Okta warned customers of social engineering attacks carried out in recent weeks by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. The attacks targeted IT service desk staff to trick them into resetting all multi-factor authentication (MFA) factors enrolled by highly privileged users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. The Provider confirmed that they will also require employees to undergo additional social engineering awareness training.”

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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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 9, 2023

Passkeys are a lot easier to manage and are resistant to phishing , harvesting and other credential attacks, which is why it’s making its way into the mainstream as a more secure and convenient authentication method. How Passkeys Work Passkeys work by using biometric authentication or a unique code to authenticate a user’s identity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently observed threat actors using sophisticated social engineering tactics to target IT help desks in the health sector. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, IT help desks)

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Category News, Social Engineering. Several large companies were hacked in the first half of September. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. In the IHG hack, a couple from Vietnam claimed they were attempting to deploy ransomware on the network.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2021

In our four-part series investigating the vulnerabilities of multi-factor authentication (MFA), we’ve learned a lot about the methods hackers use to crack these systems. Social engineering, technical hacks, and a mixture of both can all play a role in weakening the authentication factors we depend on to protect our business’s critical data.

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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. million worth of wire fraud and identity theft.

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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. The attackers deepfaked the actual voice of one of the IT staffers and tricked the employee into providing the multi-factor authentication (MFA) code.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

Social engineering works because humans are gullible–even the most jaded among us. While it is possible the hackers figured out the login credentials of these extremely high profile people, more likely is that Twitter itself was hacked. The follow up question that makes this big news, “What if this is legit?”.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

A hacker who recently offered 700 million LinkedIn records for sale alarmed LinkedIn users and security specialists, but the company insists the data is linked to previously reported scraped data and wasn’t hacked. ” In response, Hodson urged all LinkedIn users to update their passwords and enable two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

Several EA Sports FIFA 22 players claim to have been hacked, they say to have lost access to their personal EA and email accounts. A growing number of EA Sports FIFA 22 players reported that their EA accounts were hacked, including famous streamers such as Jamie Bateson (AKA Bateson87), NickRTFM, Trymacs, TisiSchubecH and FUT FG.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The post Okta Screws Up (Yet Again) — ALL Customers’ Data Hacked, not just 1% appeared first on Security Boulevard. You had one job: Last month’s sheer incompetence descends this week into UTTER FARCE.

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

Social engineering works because humans are gullible–even the most jaded among us. While it is possible the hackers figured out the login credentials of these extremely high profile people, more likely is that Twitter itself was hacked. The follow up question that makes this big news, “What if this is legit?”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. The MGM attacks were almost identical to the social engineering attacks on Caesars, which targeted a third-party IT help desk.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. Nearly two weeks later, Clark was arrested at his apartment in Tampa.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. Just ask Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, whose Twitter account was hijacked this summer in what’s known as a “SIM-swap” hack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

” The US firm urges customers to be vigilant for social engineering and phishing attacks. The company also recommends active multi-factor authentication (MFA), and regularly rotate their MongoDB Atlas passwords. .” At this time, we are not aware of any exposure to the data that customers store in MongoDB Atlas.”

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

Password Security: Investigate different password security techniques, such as password hashing algorithms, two-factor authentication (2FA), and biometric authentication. Social Engineering: Investigate the human element of cybersecurity by exploring social engineering techniques and tactics used to manipulate individuals.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft says LAPSUS$ — which it boringly calls “ DEV-0537 ” — mostly gains illicit access to targets via “social engineering.” ” This involves bribing or tricking employees at the target organization or at its myriad partners, such as customer support call centers and help desks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

An attacker can obtain the parameter by using a social engineering technique. To do this, the attacker needs a valid ‘ssid’ parameter, generated when a NAS user shares a file from their QNAP device. This parameter is included in the URL of the ‘share’ link.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Okta says 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 valide users. HAR files can also contain sensitive data, including authentication information. ” concludes the advisory.

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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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

The threat actor that is offering for sale the data shared a sample of 1M records as proof of the authenticity of the archive. “We reached out directly to the user who is posting the data up for sale on the hacking forum. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LinkedIn). ” reported RestorePrivacy. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The notice further warns about the use of Windows 7, which Microsoft stopped supporting in January of last year.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. The attackers use previously compromised Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses to create new domains that appear as technical support entities.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based based e-commerce company, stealing personal and financial data on 1,300 government employees, and providing the data to an Islamic State hacking group. ” [Side note: It may be little more than a coincidence, but my PayPal account was hacked in Dec.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

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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. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2024

Not OK: SMS 2FA — Widespread spam targets carrier employees, as scrotes try harder to evade two-factor authentication. The post SIM Swappers Try Bribing T-Mobile and Verizon Staff $300 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Last week we learned that ride-sharing giant Uber's defences had been unpicked by an attacker with a novel take on social engineering: Fatigue. “MFA fatigue”, sometimes referred to as “MFA push spam”, aims to overcome a form of multi-factor authentication people use to keep their accounts safe.

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