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JUNE 26, 2025

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SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

List of in-the-wild 0-days caught and reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years Social activity What never ceases to impress us is how much effort Lazarus APT puts into their social engineering campaigns. First, we discovered that the game uses the Socket.IO

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2025

Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sound more authentic and eliminate any spelling errors. Never fall for people that claim they can recover payments in cryptocurrencies.

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SecureList

AUGUST 10, 2022

VileRAT is a Python implant, part of an evasive and highly intricate attack campaign against foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading companies. Malicious DOCX social engineering message. We could not profile all the identified organizations, but half of them were foreign currency (FOREX) and cryptocurrency exchange brokers.

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SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

Lumma has also been observed using exploit kits, social engineering, and compromised websites to extend its reach and evade detection by security solutions. Fake Telegram channels for pirated content and cryptocurrencies. In this article, we’ll focus mainly on the fake CAPTCHA distribution vector.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

In a blog post detailing its efforts to track and contain the breach, Microsoft described LAPSUS$ as a “large scale social engineering and extortion campaign.” LAPSUS$ doesn’t appear to be using overtly sophisticated intrusion methods but instead relying on social engineering and purchased accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Social Tactics.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Unfortunately, contemporary events seem to confirm this.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

“A near-future event could cause a massive depopulation of internet-connected devices. “CISOs and security teams will need to have an understanding of all of the facets of cryptocurrencies, including different blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, smart contracts, and hot and cold storage,” says Carey.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord. Recently, many channels have appeared on Telegram promising prizes or get-rich cryptocurrency investment schemes.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

Affiliates using IABs for access need to have non-traceable cryptocurrency and often a guarantor to facilitate purchase. Attackers are leveraging new technologies like automation and evolving social engineering tactics, leaving organizations with no choice but to fight fire with fire.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Ryuk ransoms, paid in cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, were split into smaller portions and then forwarded on to multiple cryptocurrency wallets and then placed into exchange accounts for other forms of currency. An IR plan can direct your responders on what to do in the event of a cybersecurity attack. Educate your staff.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

By: Daron Hartvigsen , Managing Director, StoneTurn and Luke Tenery , Partner, StoneTurn When insider threat or insider risk is discussed in a corporate context, often the relevant topics include misconduct , fraud, misuse, or even the idea that insiders can be unwitting accomplices to social engineering exploitation.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

One unfortunate issue with donations related to the invasion of Ukraine is that a lot of people tweeting about events as they happen don’t have verified accounts. This means various forms of cryptocurrency and/or wire transfers are probably not on the cards. At any rate, the scammer (appears) to be gone now.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. The actor used cryptocurrency-related contents or complaints from law enforcement as lure themes.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The agencies have reason to believe cryptocurrency ransom payments from such operations support DPRK's "national-level priorities and objectives". An IR plan can direct your responders on what to do in the event of a cybersecurity attack. Educate your staff.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In 2023, we might see a slight decline in ransomware attacks, reflecting the slowdown of the cryptocurrency markets. As the geopolitical situation is quite tense, different types of fraud will take advantage of new events that will take place. Arthur Laudrain, Strategic Analyst (Cyber Program), The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In late 2024, Russian ransomware groups began collaborating with native English speakers, boosting their social engineering capabilities. The group social-engineered the organization’s help desk, employing fluent English to achieve a reset of a compromised account’s password.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

AI could impact more than just social engineering. A switch to digital currency without anonymity would leverage some of the strengths of cryptocurrency, but likely change the fabric of privacy and crime. “The insider threat of 2030 could just as easily be an object or an algorithm.”

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Mobile statistics Targeted attacks BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MotW At the close of 2022, we reported the recent activities of BlueNoroff , a financially motivated threat actor known for stealing cryptocurrency. The threat actor uses social engineering to infect a PoS terminal.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 16, 2025

With the loss of customer name and contact data, there may be some social engineering attacks, but Coinbase has already said they will make customer whole if that happens. Craft your defense and response capabilities to be able to respond like Coinbase, in the unfortunate event of a breach. The hunters now become the hunted.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In late 2024, Russian ransomware groups began collaborating with native English speakers, boosting their social engineering capabilities. The group social-engineered the organization’s help desk, employing fluent English to achieve a reset of a compromised account’s password.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

The research will cover such innovations of interest as P2P payments, mobile payments, digital wallets and central bank digital currencies – nationally sponsored cryptocurrencies that, unlike Bitcoin or Monero, would serve as a legitimate substitute for a country’s official currency.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is particularly notable in the case of Lazarus APT, specifically its attacks against cryptocurrency investors in May. Hacktivist alliances also emerge in response to fast-moving events, such as when hacktivists united to deface French websites in response to the arrest of Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Timeline of events 2024.01.19 The attackers used social engineering to gain long-term access to the development environment and extended it with fake human interactions in plain sight. This malware is designed to steal browser data, local cryptocurrency wallets, files with specific names ( wallet.dat , password.docx , etc.)

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. This demonstrates how threat actors are willing to exploit even the most sensitive of events for malicious purposes. com and hurricaneheleneclaimhelp[.]com.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Through a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or LiteCoin, or 2.) Social engineering: Social engineering testing is an effective tool to complement user awareness by exposing human flaws in processes that can subsequently be addressed. Payment of a ransom is typically done in one of two ways: Either 1.)

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

From natural disasters to global pandemics and geopolitical conflicts, we have all witnessed events that shake us to our core. Watch out for “charities” asking you to pay with cash, gift cards, wire transfers, or cryptocurrency. Written by: Josten Peña Human Risk Analyst for Social-Engineer, LLC

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. Unpatched exploits.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. When certain events are detected, the banking Trojan opens a window that displays a web page with a request for bank card details.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although there was a public report of drones used to hack a Wi-Fi network in 2022, there are no accounts of similar events happening in 2023. This attack was highly targeted and showed particular interest in cryptocurrency companies, which may indicate that the ultimate goal of the attackers was financial gain. Drone hacking!

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Hacking Energy and Utilities Malware Media 141

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Among these experienced affiliates is the “Scattered Spider” group, known for its custom tools and advanced social engineering skills, which helped RansomHub become the most active ransomware group in Q3 2024 (see Figure 1). BACKDOOR.MESSAGETAP, DEADLYSIGN) and legitimate tools like Cobalt Strike and Metasploit.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Stok : DEF CON that that summer for hacker summer camp and got invited or more or less kind of social engineer myself into a hacker one live hacking event used to be at the bar. All on his own Jack discovered a security flaw in a cryptocurrency app, a flaw that opened the door to the world of bug bounties.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The new resources are meant to help organizations securely adopt, develop and deploy LLM and generative AI systems and applications “with a comprehensive strategy encompassing governance, collaboration and practical tools,” OWASP said in a statement.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Most threats uncovered on PC and mobile devices were adware, but dangerous malware was also present: from stealers to bankers, often leading to the loss of not just credentials but money, including cryptocurrency. Cyberthreats for PC gamers. However, there is another common threat: phishing.

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