NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Security education and awareness have come a long way since the first Cybersecurity Awareness Month 20 years ago. In the spirit of this year’s theme, we created a parody of the Monster Mash to share social engineering prevention tips far and wide.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lack of security awareness and education. Often, employees within organizations lack sufficient security awareness and education. This lack of knowledge makes them susceptible to phishing attacks, social engineering, and other cyber threats. Promote security awareness and education among employees.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. Prey on Emotions Scammers have become experts in using social engineering techniques to their advantage. What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common?

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Security Through Education

APRIL 19, 2023

Social engineering and collections may seem like two vastly different professions. Before my work as a Human Risk Analyst for Social-Engineer , I had previously worked in this field of collections. A social engineer may use liking to build rapport with the target and gain their trust.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The best way to stay up-to-date with the recent trends is by reading the top cybersecurity blogs. Here’s our list of the best cybersecurity blogs to read and follow. Securing Tomorrow SecuringTomorrow is a blog by McAfee, one of the biggest security software providers. The main focus here is the social side of data loss.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids). The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Malicious intent or manipulation: AI chatbots can be exploited to spread misinformation, execute social engineering attacks or launch phishing. Such manipulation can harm user trust, tarnish brand reputation and have broader social consequences. Machine learning helps AI chatbots adapt to and prevent new cyber threats.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This immersive form of education allows us to develop and maintain a secure environment outside of the workplace, as well as in it. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. What about a C-level executive?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Phishing vs. Vishing “While email may still be the most common mechanism for social engineering, we increasingly see attacks via social media, platforms such as WhatsApp, physical compromise, snail mail, and phone calls,” says ethical hacker FC in a blog.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added to the many user-friendly digital tools scammers, sextortionists, and hackers can leverage in order to manipulate their victims.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

This day serves as an annual reminder to increase awareness and education for leaders, IT decision-makers and the general public on the importance of identity management. If you are interested in participating in future blog surveys, please let us know by completing an (ISC)² Volunteer Application.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. Continuously educating your workforce. Continuously Educate Your Workforce. dollars to remediate per incident.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

This blog post aims to share the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs) so defenders can take action. Yet, the threat has become prevalent enough to warrant better user education. We have reported this campaign to Google but no action has been taken yet.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Most if not, all social engineering attacks will attempt to trigger some emotion such as urgency, fear, greed, or curiosity. Stay educated, implement security recommendations, stay safe. At Social-Engineer LLC, our purpose is to bring education and awareness to all users of technology. Rosa Rowles.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this blog, we’ll discuss some of the ways you can use MFA and features like Duo’s Trusted Endpoints to protect against MFA bypass attacks. Often operating in tandem with MFA fatigue attacks, social engineering attacks involve attackers reaching out to users to convince them to provide the access information.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

. “A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. ” In the early morning hours of Nov. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At Social-Engineer, we define impersonation as “the practice of pretexting as another person with the goal of obtaining information or access to a person, company, or computer system.” Educate Yourself: Stay informed about the latest impersonation scams and tactics.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The link to the git repository could be used in social engineering attacks against the platform developers to gain access to the repository, and in turn, steal the source code of the site. If exposed, such information could enable the threat actor to impersonate a victim and access applications illegitimately.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? OnePercent Group attacks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2023

Social engineering and collections may seem like two vastly different professions. However, they share many similarities when it comes to […] The post Influence Tactics in Everyday Life: Collections appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The threat actors were observed using social engineering techniques to compromise its targets, with fake job offers as the lure. North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus is behind a new campaign tracked as Operation DreamJob (aka DeathNote or NukeSped ) that employed Linux malware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss: Our current perimeter defense; The need to shift to a data-centric security approach; and, The need to educate the public to strengthen our critical infrastructure security posture. Some of these include: Advanced persistent threats (APTs); Insider threats; Social engineering; and, Human error.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data. What is phishing?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The use of fake domains impersonating venture capital firms and social engineering tactics observed by Jamf lead the experts into attributing the attacks to BlueNoroff. Kaspersky researchers noticed that the group had created numerous fake domains impersonating venture capital firms and banks in a campaign tracked as ‘SnatchCrypto’.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While usernames and passwords can be brute forced or gathered in social engineering attacks; MFA, when used properly, helps ensure that it really is YOU who is logging in. Pinpoint the Phishes As social engineering attacks become more prolific, we need to do better at identifying them.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer. If you had heard of pretexting before clicking on this blog, you may align it with social engineering , or with use in a professional setting.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 26, 2022

Marketers utilize aggregate data , collected from online purchases and website visits, alongside social engineering to keep you purchasing, downloading, and revisiting. Aggregate Data, Algorithms, and Social Engineering = Influence. It can also include behavior metrics like average age and number of transactions.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This trend underscores the evolving threat landscape and the importance of continuous awareness and education on cybersecurity threats, including those that initially appear to be personal in nature. Protecting Yourself and Your Business Educate and Train Employees : Awareness is the first step in prevention.

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

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 23, 2024

In last week’s blog (part 2), I continued to explore the pros and cons of using an MDR provider and whether it’s better choosing a boutique provider over that of a traditional big brand. Cybercriminals often exploit cultural nuances, language, or social engineering techniques tailored to target specific ethnic groups.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

While social media does give us access to information, it can be hard to determine what is real and what is misinformation. Also, we don’t always know if the friends we or our kids meet on social media are really who they say they are. Written by: Shelby Dacko Human Risk Analyst at Social-Engineer, LLC

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Shelby Dacko At Social Engineer LLC, our purpose is to bring education and awareness to all users of technology. By doing that and following the FBI’s tips to protect yourself from these romance scams, you will be sure to keep your heart, and your wallet, safe.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2021

Another reason is that social engineering lures may be expertly crafted by the attacker after they have been monitoring a victim’s activity for some time, resulting in more effective phishing campaigns with serious security implications. Continue reading Trojan Spyware and BEC Attacks at Sucuri Blog.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

PhishMe’s online forum provides a series of scenarios, landing pages, attachments and educational pages. This is a platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests focusing on the problem of social-engineering. Wide varieties of scenarios are offered to make the employees more aware of such attacks.

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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 19, 2023

. “TurkoRat’s author clearly anticipates this, as he provides instructions on how to use malicious code, while stating that he is ‘not responsible for any damages this software may cause and that it was only made for personal education.'” Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2023

It is not enough to just educate the students. The organization is educating its next group of students supported by “seniors” from the previous year who are paired 1-on-1 with a partner. Our proof of concept will come when we get them jobs too. The founder, Adam Dennis (that’s me!), Pairing plan 2023 is THE critical year.

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