Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer. Root Everything in Truth.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Among hopefuls searching for a true connection though, are those who take advantage of our need for human interaction, namely scammers. Scammers can use details shared on social media and dating sites to better understand and target you. Painted hearts on restaurant doors, red roses in hand, candies and chocolates on display.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Apart from sign-in credentials, system information, and keystrokes, many info stealers are now adding hot wallet data to the list of information they search for and exfiltrate. Experts also warn of scams and other social engineering attacks that cybercriminals use to trick victims into sending funds to the attackers’ wallets.

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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. Search online for the contact information (name, email, phone number, addresses) and the proposed offer. Pressure to act quickly is a hallmark of social engineering scams.

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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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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Businesses should include the risks of social engineering scams, like romance scams, in their cybersecurity training programs, highlighting how personal security practices impact professional security. The post Navigating the Web of Romance Scams: A Guide for Businesses and Consumers appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer. Root Everything in Truth.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Scammers are clever, and they tend to use social engineering tactics to build trust with their intended victims so that it is easier to exploit them for their credentials, money, or data. Even now, our cybersecurity climate is getting hotter. Wrapping up.

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. Online advertising platforms offer advertisers the possibility to bid in order to display brief ads in search engines, such as Google, but also websites, mobile apps and more.

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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. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog series. Sometimes, despite all efforts to the contrary, data can be compromised.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For example, without a solution to enforce user identification at the help desk, organizations often rely on insecure methods like employee ID, which are vulnerable to a social engineering attack. Once they’re selected from the search results, we see a number of Quick Verification options, including Duo.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Charity Fraud Scam Vectors and Social Engineering Techniques. Some of these include phishing, vishing , social media, and crowdfunding platforms. What You Can Do: Always do your research and search for reputable organizations. Every dollar you donate goes to a family without a home.”

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

This tool has several features, including listing spaces, pages, attachments, projects, issues (and comments), usernames, and emails, and has the ability to search by a provided keyword. I also wanted to make use of the very “fun” Confluence Query Language and Jira Query Language with “fuzzy” searching. link] Why??

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With the increase of malware related scams mentioned at the outset, it is important to be on guard when searching through our inbox. If you’re not sure whether an offer or deal is legitimate or not, always search and fact check first before taking any action. Deals and Promotions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security experts at Trustwave have released Social Mapper, a new open-source tool that allows finding a person of interest across social media platform using facial recognition technology. ” Trustwave states in a blog post. While this is a easy task for a few, it can become incredibly tedious when done at scale.”

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Security Through Education

APRIL 29, 2021

At one end of the spectrum, we employee search techniques like google dorking, which requires no more than a browser and knowledge about searching with special operators, like ‘+’ and ‘-’. At the other end of the spectrum, we wade into the murkier waters of the dark web to search for and collect information from data breaches.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Phishing to obtain sensitive user information, which is then used to launch other social engineering attacks or identity theft. NOTES: *CloudSEK inspected the mobile apps uploaded to its BeVigil security search engine for mobile apps. . State of API security: malicious attack traffic grew 117%. Related Posts. UTM Medium.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here is a blog about the dark web I had written. please elaborate on that ; The dark web, also known as the deep web or darknet, is a part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and can only be accessed using specialized software such as Tor.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

UK’s NCSC explains in a blog that an LLM is an algorithm trained on a large amount of text-based data, typically scraped from the open internet. In a long conversation with New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose, Microsoft Bing’s AI search engine offered the following somewhat unsettling responses : “I want to do whatever I want.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. Figure 3: Decoy content.

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Security Through Education

MAY 31, 2021

However, the Innocent Lives Foundation highlighted an important point in one of their blog posts, “We teach our children fire safety, water safety, and car safety skills, yet our children are not fearful of fires, crossing the street, or swimming.” Many people worry that if they talk to their children about such things it will scare them.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

The police also searched the house of another suspect, an 18 year old who was not arrested. If you are interested in more details about the phishing methods, their blog is well worth the read. The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. 2FA bypass.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These malicious apps constitute a risk for customers and developers alike—and they can be easily found online using the most common search engines. 100% NOT a pyramid scheme Social media pages are not the only concern when it comes to brand and logo theft.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Ransomware and BEC attacks pivot off social engineering that begins with criminals using search engines and haunting social media sites to gather intelligence about a specific employee at a targeted company. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In our last blog, Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update , we wrote about a barcode scanner found on the Google Play store that was infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.AdQR. To verify LavaBird’s claims, we search for our own cache Google PLAY webpage of the Barcode Scanner with The space team as owner.

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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. These statistics highlight the immense threat posed by phishing, especially BEC attacks, to organizations across industries.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

In a blog post published Mar. Microsoft says LAPSUS$ — which it boringly calls “ DEV-0537 ” — mostly gains illicit access to targets via “social engineering.” On Tuesday, LAPSUS$ announced via its Telegram channel it was releasing source code stolen from Microsoft.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Forget complex social engineering techniques – just go up to a guy, and ask him if he’s been working out? I really do hope nobody is writing a blog in 20 years time complaining about why we still haven’t fixed passwords, privileged ID’s, monitoring, and whatever else there may be. Absolute genius.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

The success of malicious campaigns always depends on the starting point of infection: social engineering. By using Shodan – The search engine for IoT – some details about C2 were collected. He is also a founding member at CSIRT.UBI and Editor-in-Chief of the security computer blog seguranca-informatica.pt.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

File-grabber customizable by Path, Extension, Search-in-subfolders (can be configured for the necessary cold wallets, Steam, etc.). In their blog, the Microsoft team confirms that one of the primary methods used by Lapsus$ is recruitment of active users within the target network, but malicious insiders are not the only type of insider threat.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The social engineering aspect around phishing works because humans want to be helpful, informed, paid well, get stuff for free sometimes, and generally not end up on the wrong side of management. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

But there’s no real mechanism defined by most Internet service providers or tech companies to test the validity of a search warrant or subpoena. ” The idea of impersonating law enforcement officers to obtain information typically only available via search warrant or subpoena is hardly new.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

We have drudgery ahead of us: scouring your entire perimeter, learning about your business using Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), social engineering our way in (if that’s in scope for your engagement) … essentially leaving no stone unturned. We don’t have magic 0-day exploits to walk right in.

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Security Through Education

MAY 17, 2023

Try this: perform a google search of your name and see what information comes up. Shelby Dacko At Social Engineer LLC, our purpose is to bring education and awareness to all users of technology. To start, think “safety first” when posting or adding information to your account. What accounts are connected with your name?

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When I first started diving into offensive Slack access, one of the best public resources I found was a blog post by Cody Thomas from back in 2020 (which I highly recommend giving a read). This BOF simply reads the memory of a remote Office process and searches the returned buffer for JSON web tokens (JWTs) related to Microsoft services.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

Malvertising seems to be enjoying a renaissance as of late, whether it is from ads on search engine results pages or via popular websites. Because browsers are more secure today than they were 5 or 10 years ago, the attacks that we are seeing all involve some form of social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This can allow spammers to use your server to send bulk emails to users or enable scammers to conduct social engineering campaigns via your email address. Template engines are a type of software used to determine the appearance of a web page. Learn how attackers can achieve mail injection and how you can prevent it here.

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