Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. It includes information from 467,361 complaints of suspected Internet crime with reported losses in excess of $3.5 Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. BEC is the costliest crime for businesses. Overall, 23,775 BEC victims accounted for $1.77

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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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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

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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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Microsoft blogged about its attack at the hands of LAPSUS$, and about the group targeting its customers. ” Like LAPSUS$, these vishers just kept up their social engineering attacks until they succeeded. Most targeted employees are working from home or can be reached on a mobile device. .” ” SMASH & GRAB.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is just one reason why we have an entire month devoted to internet awareness and staying safe online, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM). 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.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. This disables peer-to-peer access, enabling internet-only access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued two separate statements on this note and asked the residents of Texas, Florida and New Mexico to be extra vigilant as the residents of the said regions were termed to be most vulnerable to such forms of online crimes. And the trend becomes severe during valentines season.

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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. This staggering figure represents more than 59 percent of the losses from the top five most costly internet crimes worldwide.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Last year, we witnessed the fast-evolving nature of social engineering attacks, and this evolution poses greater challenges for detection and defense.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Related: How PKI could secure the Internet of Things If that sounds too complicated to grasp, take a look at the web address for the home page of this website. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. Gaming is now an online social activity. Watch for phishing and social engineering. The best way to stay safe is to be aware of the threat—and learn how to spot phishing and social engineering attacks when you encounter them. Account takeovers.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Internet of Things. IBM describes the internet of things (IoT) as the “the concept of connecting any device … to the Internet and to other connected devices.” Most if not, all social engineering attacks will attempt to trigger some emotion such as urgency, fear, greed, or curiosity. Rosa Rowles.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Updating software Cisco Duo is all about cybersecurity, so every week we’re going to publish a blog focused on those respective topics. Overview We use passwords to access computers, to access personal web applications over the internet, or to access business applications.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2022

A convincingly-branded message that tells users they need to update their out of date software taps into all the good security messaging users have soaked up, it gives them a reason to install strange software from the Internet, and it carries exactly the right mixture of implied threat and urgency that social engineers like.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, COVID-19, Zoom meetings, vaccination recommendations and travel warnings all provide ample and unique precedent for social engineering attacks. This could be those without antivirus protection, young internet users or, unfortunately, your elderly loved ones. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. Always remember.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced Additional Resources.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

In the first two blogs in this series, we discussed properly setting up IAM and avoiding direct internet access to AWS resources. In this blog, we’ll tackle encrypting AWS in transit and at rest. Consequently, all Internet bound traffic to and from these resources will be secure. coffee shop WiFi).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“This combination suggests that the exploit requires a social engineering element, and would likely be seen in initial infections using attacks like MalDocs or LNK files.” . “What actions are required is not clear; however, we do know that exploitation requires an authenticated user level of access,” Breen said.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

billion, Business Email Compromise ( BEC ), was the most financially damaging Internet crime for the seventh year in a row, according to the FBI’s 2022 Internet Crime Report. Most people have a pretty good idea how phishing emails and BEC use social engineering to trick their unwitting victims. Leveraging AI/ML.

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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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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Hot wallets and attempts at hacking them A hot wallet is a cryptocurrency wallet with permanent access to the internet. Fairly simple and devoid of software or social engineering tricks, scams like these typically target non-technical users. Hot wallets are a highly popular crypto storage option. ripple.com.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques. Close to 2,000 security professionals in more than 80 countries overwhelmingly listed people-focused social engineering risks like phishing attacks and stolen logins as their biggest threat.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Due to their network engineers' lack of understanding of how the network functions, network access was problematic on Saturday. As with so many break ins, this begins with a social engineering attack. We've written about BlackCat/ALPHV many times on the Malwarebytes Labs Blog. Detect intrusions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The global internet economy relies on cryptography as the foundation for a secure network. This influx of new internet users increased digital deployments, and the advent of the remote work movement caused security vulnerabilities for businesses and consumers to rise significantly.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi engagingly chronicles how company leaders raced down the path of Internet-centric operations, and then cloud-centric operations, paying far too little attention to unintended data security consequences. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

Beware of social engineering attacks Understanding the dangers of phishing schemes and other internet scams help you to know what the criminals are looking for. We have a series of blogs and newsletters that provide a plethora of information on how to protect yourself from identity theft and other scams.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Security researchers said the fix for the remote execution flaw found in Microsoft Internet Explorer should top the patching list for security pros following Patch Tuesday yesterday. And if you are browsing the internet as an admin, the attackers will get full, unrestricted access to your file system and the operating system,” Breen said.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. ReasonLabs’ RAV VPN enables users to confidentially and securely browse the internet anywhere in the world. There are many ways in which we can be exposed to potential cyberattacks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Original post at [link] While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. Keep yourself updated with the latest Pharming techniques used by cybercriminals by following the cybersecurity blogs , magazines, and news portal. Use a reliable DNS server.

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