Heimadal Security

AUGUST 6, 2021

Apple ID phishing scams represent genuine danger nowadays. The concept of “phishing” stands for an advanced cyberattack form that embodies social engineering tactics. The post How to Spot and Prevent Apple ID Phishing Scams appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. It may sound familiar to you.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Hence, cybercriminals have little motivation to invest heavily into phishing campaigns, and so, techniques used in email attacks on hot wallets are hardly ever original or complex. Sample phishing email that targets Coinbase users After the user clicks the link, they are redirected to a page where they are asked to enter their seed phrase.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. Let’s see what lessons we can learn from scam artists to better protect ourselves.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 15, 2022

Researchers have uncovered a new phishing kit that, under the guise of security controls, injects malware into legitimate WordPress sites and uses a fake PayPal-branded social engineering scam to trick targets into handing over their most sensitive data. Researchers from Akamai said that the attackers […].

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A highly efficient phishing kit spreads the most among users from the United States and Canada. The scam targets online shoppers looking for “holiday specials” by impersonating popular brands. The post New Shopping Phishing Scam Uses URI Fragmentation to Target U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Phishing exercises are an important tool towards promoting security awareness in an organization. Phishing is effective, simply because it works. As social engineers, it is easy to play on people’s vulnerabilities; their fears, hopes, and dreams.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The cybercrime gang specializes in online scams, using social engineering, phishing, and smishing to collect sensitive victim information before committing financial fraud.

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Security Through Education

MAY 21, 2024

Whether you’re planning a vacation, gearing up for outdoor activities, or simply enjoying some downtime, it’s crucial to remain vigilant against the wide array of scams that tend to surge during this time of the year. The sense of urgency created by limited time offers can lure unsuspecting victims into being scammed.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

What is social engineering? Social engineering is a manipulative technique used by criminals to elicit specific actions in their victims. Social engineering is seldom a stand-alone operation. money from a bank account) or use it for other social engineering types. George vs.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A new development in phishing is the “nag attack.” The fraudster commences the social engineering by irritating the targeted victim, and then follows up with an an offer to alleviate the annoyance. The second part of the attack is the scam. Nag attacks add to the litany of phishing techniques. Spear phishing.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the digital age, the quest for love has moved online, but so have the fraudsters, with romance scams reaching record highs. These scams don’t just harm individuals financially and emotionally; they can also pose significant risks to businesses.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With this time of year coming around, however, we see an increasing amount of holiday related scams. Because of this, we want to review common end-of-year scams and how to guard against them. The FBI states that one of the most common scams is non-delivery crimes. You may even come across scams on social media !

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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.” Impersonation scams are deceptive tactics used by cybercriminals to pose as trusted entities or individuals to exploit victims.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each year, as online shopping ramps up in the weeks before the holidays, so do online scams targeting the elderly. In fact, COVID-19, Zoom meetings, vaccination recommendations and travel warnings all provide ample and unique precedent for social engineering attacks. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This tool, from Cofense, proactively engages employees via simulated attacks based on real-time threats for various phishing tactics. This methodology is distributed over a period of a year giving employees time to understand various phishing strategies. Organizations select the phishing templates and landing page for simulation.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 What is phishing? This is part of what makes phishing attacks so dangerous.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

The website for Securielite, a fake company set up to phish job-seekers. Image from Google blog). This recruitment scam creates an unusual problem for security pros trying to inoculate their office from such threats: How do you start a conversation with employees about them seeking work elsewhere?

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Security Through Education

MARCH 16, 2022

In fact, each year we see new versions of tax scams abounding. What are some of these scams we have seen, and how can we identify such schemes? The IRS reported on a scam that they first saw in 2019 related to social security numbers. Signs of a Scam. Scams with similar themes will surely flourish this season.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. “Our security team investigated and confirmed threat actor activity, including social engineering of a limited number of GoDaddy employees. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

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

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 16, 2022

The post Tax Season Scams appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our favorite time of the year is upon us again, tax season. This magical time brings stress and anxiety for […].

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Researchers last week spotted a phishing campaign that leveraged an online email authentication solution from Zix, in hopes that potential victims would be lulled into a false sense of security. But since these types of socially engineered attacks do not make use of these tactics, it evades traditional defenses,” Tobe explained.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An Fbi.gov article states that, “while these scams can happen at any time, they are especially prevalent after high-profile disasters. Charity Fraud Scam Vectors and Social Engineering Techniques. Some of these include phishing, vishing , social media, and crowdfunding platforms. What about phone scams?

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SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

The website for Securielite, a fake company set up to phish job-seekers. Image from Google blog). This recruitment scam creates an unusual problem for security pros trying to inoculate their office from such threats: How do you start a conversation with employees about them seeking work elsewhere?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Many organizations train employees to spot phishing emails, but few raise awareness of vishing phone scams. Most people are familiar with the term phishing, but not everyone knows about vishing. It is a type of fraudulent activity that falls under the general phishing category and aims to achieve the same objectives.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 15, 2021

The inevitability of taxes brings along another inevitability, tax-related scams. These three examples are just a sample of the scams attackers are using to target every one of us right now. There are scams for people who have already submitted their tax returns, and there are scams for people who have not. Keep informed.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 23, 2023

Abnormal's CISO, Mike Britton, wrote about the incident in a March 22nd blog post. " Mark Parkin of Vulcan Cyber said: "Social engineering attacks like this, originating in email, have only been getting worse over the last few years. That's when you need protection that can identify malicious content from a trusted domain."

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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. ” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A recent uptick in the reports of SMS-based business email compromise (BEC) messages may indicate a wider trend that has seen a surge of phishing scams via text messages. Phishing scams are prevalent in the SMS threat landscape, and now BEC attacks are also going mobile,” according to a Trustwave blog post that pointed to.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The experts pointed out that crooks engaged in phishing activities have started to rely on the popular instant messaging platform more in recent months. On Telegram is possible to find channels that offer: Free phishing kits that can be used to target users of a large number of global and local brands. ” Phishing-as-a-Service.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published updated recommendations for phishing simulations in security awareness training programs. The thinking obviously being that letting users in on the phishing simulation game will heighten suspicion of their inbox and skew baseline results.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2023

What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology […] The post Lessons from a Scam Artist appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. For cybercriminals that lacked the technical knowledge or means, the Fraud Family also offered to host the phishing sites and backend panels. 2FA bypass.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

companies as a primary target of a new phishing scheme. Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The company could not be certain, however, if the V4 phishing kit was involved.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

This type of targeted phishing or whaling (executive-level) attack tricks email recipients into believing someone they know and trust is asking them to carry out a specific financial task. Today’s BEC attempts aren’t the easy-to-spot, typo-laden phishing campaigns of the past. The short answer: Not always.

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