Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access.

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Social Engineering Engineering Accountability Backups 122

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter.

Cryptocurrency 309

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 309

Spinone

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Infosec Infosec offers more than 700 training resources to help your organization to prepare for phishing and other cyber threats. Infosec’s learning materials include videos and assessments that will help you to demonstrate phishing attacks and ways to avoid them to your colleagues.

Phishing 52

Phishing InfoSec Social Engineering Backups 52

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering Engineering Accountability Backups 52

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For instance, the top entry points for attackers are phishing and social engineering, and application vulnerabilities. Understanding this, you can use tactics like anti-phishing training and multi-factor authentication to lower the risks of social engineering.

Social Engineering 78

Social Engineering Penetration Testing Authentication Phishing 78

Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. Many groups have come to realize that some companies have good backups, so they start by stealing a copy of the data for themselves at the beginning of the attack.

Ransomware 246

Ransomware Government Social Engineering Small Business 246

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about?

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing InfoSec Cyber Attacks Education 52