Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

OPERATIONAL MANUALS AND DECEPTION STRATEGIES As further evidence of the increasing professionalization of this illicit sector, Meridian Group reports the publication of informational content designed to guide the proper use of EDR services, presented as a detailed guide on how to correctly complete and unlawfully submit the requests.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cybercriminals employ social engineering techniques to trick you into believing you must resolve fictitious technical issues. The hallmark of ClickFix campaigns is their clever use of social engineering. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA): Implementing MFA adds layer of security to your accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One piece of evidence to support this hypothesis is the low adoption of a basic security control that protects against identity-based attacks - multi-factor authentication (MFA). Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

This annual college basketball bonanza presents a prime opportunity for scammers to capitalize on excitement, urgency, and, of course, the lure of easy money. This intersection of sports, money, and digital activity makes for a perfect storm of social engineering attacks.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates. Additionally, several debugging functions were still present in the versions captured in the wild.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2025

Using an insidious social engineering method called ClickFix, attackers manipulate users into unwittingly executing malicious commands, leading to extensive data theft and financial fraud. ClickFix: A tactic to bypass traditional defenses ClickFix capitalizes on human error by presenting victims with seemingly routine error messages.

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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. “This is where we’re going,” Cardinal said.

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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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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s interesting to note that many people will happily unlock their phone by just looking at it and have no problem tapping their bank card against a store’s point of sale terminal, but if the term password security is presented to them, they have a blank expression, or worse, shrink away. People are just starting to adopt it passively.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

XZ backdoor to bypass SSH authentication What happened? Kaspersky presented detailed technical analysis of this case in three parts. This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. Kaspersky products detect malicious objects related to the attack.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, if you just use the command as written, it will actually authenticate to the AZ CLI with the Entra ID user that is running the notebook code. Note that if the AML user has not already authenticated to the AML compute resource, they may be prompted to authenticate. to do your data exfiltration. on YouTube.

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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.

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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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Most of these are long-standing stratagems, but as they evolve in lockstep with technological advancements, it's worth scrutinizing them through the lens of the present-day IT landscape. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is also a must to prevent unauthorized access from just a stolen password.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a well-known and well-established protection that many organizations rely on. Several common authentication methods include the use of one-time passcodes (OTP). Social Engineering: An attacker logs in with a user’s credentials and the real user gets sent an OTP.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Is the demise of OTP authentication imminent? Reducing the risk from credential compromise is forcing regulators and industry leaders to mandate multifactor authentication (MFA) and re-assess the efficacy of OTP. Historical perspective of strengthening authentication. Which authentication method is suitable or do you need many?

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Enabling multi-factor authentication 3. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is dedicated to enlightening the world on digital security and since this week’s focus is on the use of passwords, we want to take a brief look at the past, present and future of them (or in the case of future we should say “passwordless”).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2025

In an age where AI-generated content and manipulation tools are readily accessible, questions have to be raised about authenticity. Content has an authenticity problem Organizations face mounting pressure to verify the authenticity of digital assets ranging from corporate imagery to sensitive documents and media files.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. ” scams to complex social engineering plots with fake stores and delivery tracking apps. We analyzed phishing detections separately for users of our home and business products.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 15, 2023

New capabilities fix security issues with MFA push notifications Zero Trust security models call for the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to ensure that only authorized users may access protected IT resources. As a new form of social engineering, MFA fatigue raises considerable security concerns.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

Between checking scores, streaming games, participating in office pools, and inevitably some placing of bets, users will be presenting an abundance of new openings for threat actors to attack.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s encouraging to see that enterprises understand that zero-trust architectures present one of the most effective ways of providing secure access to business resources,” said Chris Hines, director, zero-trust solutions, at Zscaler.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this thorough presentation, Grimes covers all elements of ransomware attacks, from working with lawyers to how attackers run a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation. Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). Educate users how to spot rogue URLs.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Ferri said when he initially contacted T-Mobile about his incident, the company told him that the perpetrator had entered a T-Mobile store and presented a fake ID in Ferri’s name. Rather, he said, this explanation of events was a misunderstanding at best, and more likely a cover-up at some level. DARK WEB SOFTWARE?

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Architect Security

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The first published recording of “Social Engineering At Work – How to use positive influence to gain management buy-in for anything“ Recorded at DerbyCon 2018, also presented at Social Engineering Rhode Island, GRRCon, CircleCityCon, BSM, etc.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To understand the vulnerability, there are a few things to understand about the Entra ID authentication flow. Within any Entra ID environment, there are numerous cloud applications that are leveraged when a user authenticates. This odd load-time behavior is what alerted me to the potential for an MFA bypass.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Register for the on-demand webcast to hear Abagnale's full presentation, including lots of scary statistics, helpful tips, and great information from someone who knows the mind of a criminal—and some heartwarming personal information he shares during the Q&A portion at the end. Presentation slides are also available to download.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. These methods aim to put end-users in an advantageous position when under attack or presented with anything suspicious. Social engineering has its tells, though.

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

Her talk turned to the challenges to “cyber-norms” that the Ukraine-related ITArmy presents and the recent incidents in Iran with 4,000 gas pumps being disabled and a severe equipment malfunction at a steel plant, suggesting these events also will likely leave an impact on the future stability of cyberspace.

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Hacker's King

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Use Strong Authentication : If available, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) or other security measures for mobile apps and remote access systems. Conclusion While connected vehicles offer convenience, they also present new cybersecurity challenges.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The most common algorithms are those patented by RSA Data Security: This algorithm, also called asymmetric key cryptography, provides a pair of keys (a public and private key) associated with an entity that authenticates the identity of the key itself. Hash encryption is used to ensure integrity and authentication. The hash function.

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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. 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.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 4, 2024

In prepping for my speech, I realized that the techniques I daily use as a certified social engineer equipped me more than I realized. Influence Techniques At Social-Engineer, you may often hear or read about us referring to “Influence Techniques.” However, speaking to an audience is a whole different beast.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Supply chain challenges have always been present, but they’re growing increasingly common and severe. Distracted workers are particularly vulnerable to social engineering attacks, but thorough training can mitigate these risks. Studies show that regular education leads to a ninefold reduction in phishing vulnerability.

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