The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.)

Cyber threats 190

Cyber threats Cyber Insurance Cybersecurity Threat Detection 190

Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. ” Like LAPSUS$, these vishers just kept up their social engineering attacks until they succeeded. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack.

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Social Engineering Phishing Engineering Accountability 231

Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2023

From the services dropdown in Mythic’s side menu, the “Consuming Services” page shows a list of all the things that consuming services (webhooks and loggers) can listen for and acton upon. Mythic’s consuming services page There’s even a webhook for custom events which ties in to Mythic’s scripting.

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Consumer Services Social Engineering Architecture Engineering 61

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. A SIM-swap works like this: The attackers spend some time gathering readily available personal information on the targeted victim, then call up the victim’s phone service provider.

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