SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2022

Once an attacker has access to an account, they can view personal information and leverage that for a successful social engineering attack, sell that information on the Dark Web, or if they find financial information, make fraudulent purchases. This is particularly effective on those who reuse passwords across multiple accounts.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress is a popular online custom T-shirt and merchandise retailer. As well as over 180,000 unencrypted Social Security Numbers (SSNs), along with tens of thousands of partial payment card numbers (last 4 digits) and expiration dates. A treasure trove for social engineers. Informing customers. Stay safe, everyone!

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

After a slight pause, they ask you to purchase some gift cards for an upcoming raffle from whatever local retailer is close to you. It’s a falsified (although legitimate looking) video, sound clip, or picture, created to deceive the viewer into believing it is authentic by using existing content as needed to simulate the experience.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

Organizations like OneSpan now analyze bank fraud through the mobile app landscape through areas like social engineering attacks, screen captures, or changing SIM cards, LaSala told me. A solution will recognize that the user is always using the same device and allows for a more seamless authentication path.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

His compromise modus operandi was a combination of breaking into networks run by food retailers, and breaking into networks containing confidential patient records. The Detective Inspector also went on to suggest making use of two-factor authentication (2FA), which is great advice. That’s quite a peculiar mixture.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A team of hackers can, say, boost their own info-stealing websites through Google search results, providing a veneer of authenticity to their malicious intent. Technical scams abuse legitimate aspects of modern internet infrastructure to lead users to illegitimate or compromised sites.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) just released the 2022 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report that reveals the most prevalent malware tools leveraged by cyber criminals this year, with phishing and fraud dominating the list.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

. “I don’t think it would influence Federal Reserve policy, but what it might do is influence the industry to take additional action through our existing venues and our ability to share the data,” said Trish Supples, advanced subject matter expert in the Retail Payments Office at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Dark web sellers provide a broad variety of goods, sold both wholesale and retail. Retail options. Black balance means that the Steam accounts were obtained illegally, e.g., through phishing, social engineering or other cybercriminal techniques. Wholesale deals. For others, comb through account settings.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What authentication methods does the provider support? Additionally, multi-factor authentication (MFA) can further reduce the risk of malicious actors gaining access to sensitive information, even if they manage to steal usernames and passwords. What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests?

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2022

Census Bureau, retail e-commerce alone grew 18.3% retail sector, the average cost of a single breach rose by nearly two-thirds to $3.27 But one practice stands out in light of the relentless rise in crimes involving login credentials: Making passwordless authentication part of your MFA strategy. According to the U.S. In the U.S.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Those who wished to receive the “aid” were asked to state their full name, contact details, date of birth, social security and driver’s license numbers, gender, and current employer, attaching a scanned copy of their driver’s license. Those who took the bait were directed to a fake page with a login form on it.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Vamosi: Identity -- I’m talking specifically about authentication and to some degree its follow-on authorization -- is one of the most important, yet least talked about aspects of security.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. Phishing and Social Engineering. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” Rose said mobile phone stores could cut down on these crimes in much the same way that potential victims can combat SIM swapping: By relying on dual authentication. He advises people instead use a mobile app like Authy or Google Authenticator to generate the one-time code. ” TWO-FACTOR BREAKDOWN.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Although beyond the scope of the network, effective network security relies upon the effective authentication of the user elsewhere in the security stack. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Here’s how the top five industries ranked by number of ransomware attacks this spring: Services: 171 Manufacturing: 76 Technology: 65 Utilities: 61 Retail: 50. Implement multifactor authentication (MFA) for additional credential security. Noteworthy March attacks.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And on top of that, social engineering woes are growing, that's becoming more and more of fraudulent payments, just all these other things. You have to show to me that you're using multi factor authentication that you're doing vulnerability scanning and mitigation that you're harming your niche. It's not really a dip.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Today’s columnist, Yonatan Israel Garzon of Cyberint, says that the online boom during the pandemic has caused serious security issues for online retailers. At the same time, retailers have been forced to extend their online services to a breaking point, while often involving third parties in their supply and logistics chains.

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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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