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. A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” ” continues the report. ” The cost of phishing pages goes from $10 per copy up to $50 for an archive containing several pages. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. During that time, email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

In a blog post on Monday, researchers from Trend Micro reported that they uncovered 70 email addresses that have been targeted with the so-called “Office 365 V4 phishing kit” since May 2020, 40 of which belong to “CEOs, directors, owners and founders, among other enterprise employee[s].”.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

” “Cybercrime apparently cost the world over $1 trillion in 2020.” The pandemic is providing the perfect cover for cybercrime, as can be seen in the alarming statistic from First Orion that criminals were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019 via vishing or phone scams. And be supportive.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Instead, they use social engineering to pose as a person or company that the victim knows and responds to without question. Security Affairs – Paycheck, cybercrime). And, the PhishLabs report showed 98% of the phishing emails that made it past enterprise-level email security controls did not contain malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. Cybersecurity programs that educate your entire team on general information security tactics – including recognizing and addressing phishing scams – are essential.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing attack, results in the greatest financial losses of any cybercrime.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In our investigation, we discovered and studied different attacks conducted by this threat actor using the malware families described in Symantec’s blog post, together with new versions of the malware we reported in one of our reports on Tropic Trooper a few years ago. Final thoughts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

This certainly necessitates a significant amount of social engineering. This certainly necessitates a significant amount of social engineering. This increasingly popular scam is often run by criminal gangs in Southeast Asia, where the affair is called “Sha Zhu Pan,” a Chinese phrase that means “ pig butchering.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

It is possible to verify that there was a high number of phishing campaigns connected to a social engineering campaign related to package delivery services, including CTT, DHL, UPS, FedEx, etc. He is also a founding member and Pentester at CSIRT.UBI and founder of the security computer blog seguranca–informatica.pt.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. Cybersecurity programs that educate your entire team on general information security tactics – including recognizing and addressing phishing scams – are essential.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign. The threat actor relied on VBS-based malware to infect organizations from government, NGO and education sectors. Our telemetry, however, indicates that no further tools were deployed and we do not believe that data theft took place either.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Finally, kudos to another person who inspired me and expanded my vision: Mike Storm, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco ( Blog ). She started working as the editor of AlienVault’s blog in 2014. I’ve been working with Kate since her AlienVault days, and I continue to contribute to the blog today.

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