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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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Scammers tailor the complexity of technology they use and the thoroughness of their efforts to imitate legitimate websites to how well the target is protected and how large the amount is that they can steal if successful. Fairly simple and devoid of software or social engineering tricks, scams like these typically target non-technical users.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The first known mention of the word “phishing” happened in the America Online (AOL) user group named appropriately “AOHell. Phishing has raised hell ever since. As technology has evolved so has the sophistication of targeted phishing attacks. What is spear-phishing? How was the breach successful?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and the muPDF/Subliminal Recording software installer have been backdoored to perform a wide range of social engineering campaigns that started in April 2022. Microsoft has published the full list of IoCs (indicators of compromise) observed during investigations in their blog post.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers reported Tuesday that they found two email phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 mailboxes at FedEx and DHL Express that look to extract a user’s work email account. In the FedEx attack, the final phishing page spoofs an Office 365 portal packed with Microsoft branding. Brand impersonation.

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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. Thanks to technology and social media, impersonation scams have grown exponentially. Impersonation is often used in phishing , SMiShing , and vishing. This enabled him to cash nearly $2.5

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. 9, 2024, U.S. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web. In fact, according to Verizon’s most recent data breach report, approximately 80 percent of all breaches are caused by phishing and stolen credentials.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. “Our security team investigated and confirmed threat actor activity, including social engineering of a limited number of GoDaddy employees.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2021

When we look at society today, we can see that we are moving further and further ahead with technology. In fact, there is evidence that technology grows exponentially fast. Since we are quickly putting out large technologies, security risks always come with this. As mentioned earlier, technology is rapidly expanding.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Related: How AI is transforming DevOps The constant evolution of technology, increased connectivity, and sophisticated cyber threats pose significant challenges to organizations of all sizes and industries. This lack of knowledge makes them susceptible to phishing attacks, social engineering, and other cyber threats.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Phones, computers, and other technology have become an integral part of many people’s lives. 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. For many, the above scenario is extremely familiar.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

Attackers believed to have ties to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) are using Microsoft Teams chats as credential theft phishing lures. The targeted organizations are mostly found among government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

In his blog post , Kelley shared a video from CanadianKingpin12 that suggests DarkBERT will go well beyond the social engineering capabilities of the earlier tools with new “concerning capabilities.”

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

On one hand, AI has been hailed as a game-changing technology with the potential to transform industries and improve our daily lives. This is what I’ll be delving into in this blog, where I’ll be exploring how these two fields are intersecting and what that means for our digital landscape.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. The term Pharming is a combination of two words Phishing and Farming. It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. Pharming vs phishing. DNS Poisoning.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. Evolving Ransomware Scene. Threat Traced to Nigeria.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear. Firewall supplier Check Point Software Technologies has reported a massive surge in the registration of coronavirus-related domains, since Jan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Quantum computing focuses on developing computer technology based on principles that describe how particles and energy react at the atomic and subatomic levels. But, often, new technology rolls out before all of the kinks have been discovered and resolved.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." ” You won't find another technology that gets close. less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.”

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Identity-based cyberattacks are a challenge across all organizations, regardless of size, industry or technology. They can take advantage of the less secure methods of authentication, like one-time passcodes, and socially engineer a user to hand over codes or intercept them before they reach the end user.

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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. While a handful of common scams against older citizens are conducted in person, the majority are enabled or made more convincing by the use of technology.

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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. No amount of investment in the latest technology can provide 100% protection because technology alone is not enough.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. More than 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. Most if not, all social engineering attacks will attempt to trigger some emotion such as urgency, fear, greed, or curiosity. Turn on automatic updates. Rosa Rowles.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

A pair of related phishing campaigns this year took the unusual step of intentionally avoiding malicious links or attachments in its emails – a sign that threat actors may recognize the need to come up with new tactics. Here, workers prepare a presentation the day before the CeBIT 2012 technology trade fair.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TAG reported that Iranian-government-backed actors, known as APT35 and by the aliases Rocket Kitten and Charming Kitten, are quickly picking up speed, especially when it comes to implementing slick phishing attacks. Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

The threat landscape is constantly updated through new malware and spyware, advanced phishing methods, and new social engineering techniques. In addition, the likelihood of the data being used for phishing and social engineering increases. . Kaspersky detects an average of 400,000 malicious files every day.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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