SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2025

These breachesaffecting Cartier, Main Street Bank, and The North Faceunderscore the rising threat landscape facing luxury and everyday consumer brands. While no operational impact was reported, the bank terminated its relationship with the vendor. The reputational damage could be immense."

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Security Through Education

MARCH 3, 2025

When I first heard of social engineering, about 6 years ago, I couldnt define it clearly and concisely if you had offered me millions of dollars. ’ Lets re-visit what social engineering really means, how people use it, and how you can start protecting yourself from it. Either way, lets refresh and learn together!

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

Current phishing attacks have evolved from those older Nigerian scams filled with grammar mistakes and typos. Even if we do this all well and correctly, we can’t make people immune to social engineering. It’s not even their fault if they get fooled by a look-alike bank website and lose their money. This is all hard.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 30, 2025

They access and exfiltrate sensitive information such as banking details, personal identification numbers, and confidential files. There are several circumstances that make this campaign hard to detect: The cybercriminals send phishing emails from compromised WordPress sites, so the domains themselves appear legitimate and not malicious.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This social engineering scheme has been amplified by targeted phishing, smishing, and vishing activities, with a noticeable increase around the winter holidays. A month earlier, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Police warned citizens not to share their confidential information, including their account, card details or online banking credentials.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The cybersecurity world has been abuzz with news of a new Linux variant of FASTCash, a sophisticated malware targeting the banking sector. FASTCash has gained notoriety for its ability to bypass banking security protocols, enabling cybercriminals to withdraw massive amounts of cash from ATMs.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

Fraudsters use AI, social engineering, and emotional manipulation to steal not just money, but also trust, time, and peace of mind. Here’s a breakdown of the most widespread and damaging scams today: Impersonation Scams (51% of fraud cases) where fraudsters pose as: Banks, HMRC, DVLA, or government agencies. Couriers (e.g.,

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2025

” “Claim your subsidy now – just provide your bank details!” In reality, enabling notifications results in a flood of unwanted ads and malicious content (malvertising), potentially exposing users to phishing attempts and harmful software. ” The goal? on unverified websites.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Grubhub confirmed that Marketplace customer passwords, merchant login credentials, full payment card numbers, and bank account details were not exposed. However, even seemingly limited breaches can have downstream effects, enabling phishing attacks and social engineering schemes. How did this happen?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This data reportedly includes everything from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and bank account details. The stolen data reportedly includes highly personal information — names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, bank account details, and even records of residents’ interactions with city services. With over 6.5

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Other Ways Threat Actors Exploit Human Behaviour In addition to fatigue attacks, malefactors weaponise social engineering. ” The combination of push spamming and social engineering fuels a compelling scene where the victim feels under pressure to comply.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Note that for mobile banking malware, we retrospectively revised the 2023 numbers to provide more accurate statistics. We also changed the methodology for PC banking malware by removing obsolete families that no longer use Trojan banker functionality, hence the sharp drop in numbers against 2023. million detections compared to 5.84

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Avoid phishing emails and messages You may receive emails or texts with fake Valentine's Day deals, electronic greeting cards (e-cards), or delivery notifications. Protect your personal information Valentine's Day scammers take advantage of social engineering and people letting their guard down around February 14th.

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SecureList

JUNE 25, 2025

At the same time, AI-driven attacks are becoming increasingly common, making phishing and malware campaigns easier to prepare and quickly adapt, thus increasing their scale. These programs are designed to display advertisements on infected computers or substitute a promotional website for the default search engine in a browser.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

We discovered a new phishing kit targeting payroll and payment platforms that aims to not only steal victims’ credentials but also to commit wire fraud. Clicking on the ad sent employees and employers to a phishing website impersonating Deel. Phishing portal and 2FA The first phishing domain we saw was login-deel[.]app

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SecureList

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In late October 2024, a new scheme for distributing a certain Android banking Trojan called “Mamont” was uncovered. The link directed users to a phishing site offering to download Mamont for Android ( 12936056e8895e6a662731c798b27333 ). The link came with a tracking number that had to be entered in the app.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Since 2021, the Crazy Evil gang has become a major cybercriminal group, using phishing, identity fraud, and malware to steal cryptocurrency. ” Crazy Evil is referred as a traffer team, which is a group of social engineering specialists tasked with redirecting legitimate traffic to malicious landing pages.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 12, 2025

Category Awareness, Social Enginering Risk Level Phishing emails are getting harder to detect. What is phishing, and why is it such a big deal?" Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the hacker playbook - but its also one of the most effective. Alright, but cant I just spot and delete phishing emails?"

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 19, 2024

You may also want to read about: Cybersecurity vs Software Engineering in 2024 The Global Rise of Cyber Threats In the past decade, cyber threats have grown in frequency, complexity, and impact. This creates a high demand for cybersecurity jobs , particularly for roles such as security analysts, network engineers, and ethical hackers.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 15, 2025

Goldman Sachs has officially entered the era of the "hybrid workforce" with the announcement of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer from Cognition. It's interesting to see banks at the forefront of AI adoption. Bloomberg projects that up to 200,000 banking jobs may be eliminated over the next three to five years due to AI.

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Banking Engineering Healthcare Risk 70

Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Common attacks to consumer protection Identity theft and fraud Some common types of identity theft and fraud include account takeover fraud , when criminals use stolen personal information such as account numbers, usernames, or passwords to hijack bank accounts, credit cards, and even email and social media accounts.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction Since mid-2024, we’ve observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which we have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

It’s the May Bank Holiday, and as I sit at my desk, working, unanswered questions continue to swirl around the recent cyberattacks on Marks & Spencer (M&S) , the Co-op , and Harrods , leaving the full scope and implications of these breaches uncertain.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Financial services industry: Banks, insurance companies and other financial organizations offer a wealth of opportunity for hackers who can use stolen bank account and credit card information for their own financial gain. They can rack up charges on your credit cards and even drain your bank accounts.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2025

If you ask a layperson which industries they expect to come under attack from cyberattacks, they'll probably highlight targets like banks, infrastructure, or big tech. But one of the most high-profile cyberattacks in 2024 was against Krispy Kreme. Is nothing sacred anymore, when even our doughnuts aren't safe?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2025

Banking Trojans and spyware are now outpacing more traditional nuisances like adware and riskware , and what’s changed is the level of sophistication. Fake financial tools, predatory loan apps, and cleverly disguised “updates” aren’t just slipping through the cracks, they are being engineered with that objective in mind.

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Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit. Show more Have I Been Pwned is a search engine that you can use to see if your data has been breached.   Think you've been involved in a data breach?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The malevolent seven: ENISA report identifies prime cybersecurity threats Ransomware; malware; social engineering; threats against data; threats against availability (denial of service); information manipulation and interference; and supply chain attacks. MORE Cofense looks at a recent phishing campaign that used HR-related themes.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 16, 2025

However, it also equips malicious actors with tools for highly-effective phishing, sophisticated malware generation, and automated attack campaigns. But it's the people like analysts, engineers, and threat hunters who bring the experience and judgment needed to make the right call or provide detailed insights on what is important.

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Security Through Education

MAY 5, 2025

To me, one the most appealing aspects of becoming a professional social engineer was red teaming on an onsite job. I pictured myself in tactical gear, breaking into a bank under the cover of nightstealthily bypassing every security measure and showcasing my skills. Written by Rosa Rowles Human Risk Analyst, Social-Engineer, LLC

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Outlook, Sophos XG Firewall, and other flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Cisco addressed two critical flaws in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) Notorious hacker behind 40+ cyberattacks on strategic organizations arrested Lazarus APT targets crypto wallets using cross-platform JavaScript stealer U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

77% of organizations have the overprivileged default Compute Engine service account configured in Google Vertex AI Notebooks which puts all services built on this default Compute Engine at risk.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Technical components: Website architecture must be reconfigured to ensure that search engines see multiple language versions of your website properlyas different subsets, not as duplicates. Here are the key components to focus on when introducing your website to new audiences. EU, and China.

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Security Through Education

JUNE 2, 2025

But lately, those little squares have been showing up in a much sneakier way, thanks to something called Quishing its basically phishing, but with a QR code. Written by Josten Pea Human Risk Analyst, Social-Engineer, LLC Just point your phones camera, and boomyoure where you need to be.

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Scams Social Engineering Mobile Antivirus 52

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. Beware the first, ad-supported result on Google searches and other search engines. They are wildly adaptable.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

Big Numbers: It’s important to note that NYDFS cybersecurity regulation penalties can start at $2,500 per day for each noncompliance with Part 500 under New York Banking Law. phishing attacks), and their specific roles in protecting sensitive information. Whats New in the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation Amendment?

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