Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

Penetration Testing Frameworks: Frameworks like Metasploit simulate real-world attacks to identify security weaknesses. Social Engineering Tactics: These tactics exploit human psychology to manipulate individuals. Attackers use them for reconnaissance, identifying open ports, operating systems, and vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime. David runs Privacy-PC.com and MacSecurity.net projects that present expert opinions on contemporary information security matters, including social engineering, malware, penetration testing, threat intelligence, online privacy, and white hat hacking.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Social engineering avoidance should be part of all workers’ onboarding processes. Penetration Test Regularly. In light of these ongoing challenges, you should penetration test regularly to find any vulnerabilities that need fixing. Informing patients of these steps in telemedicine apps is also important.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Conduct regular network penetration tests to identify flaws and vulnerabilities in your corporate networks. If you don’t have the talent in-house, employ a third-party security firm.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

He previously chronicled the emergence of cybercrime while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Erin: What role should governments play in combating cybercrime? Erin: What role does human error play in cybersecurity incidents?

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2022

biased exclusivity and double layer monetization combination where the attacker might only sell the database to its actual owner and actually get rid of it once they receive the payment.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The rise of cybercrime has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Interpol describing the advance of cyberattacks coming at "an alarming pace." Cybercrime has evolved—and so has cybersecurity. It is certainly the case that specific industries are more likely to be targeted with specific types of cybercrime.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

This betrays a lack of preparation for disaster recovery and ineffective penetration testing of systems. Exposed Technical Issues & Other Consequences The initial information exposes the critical importance of using MFA to protect remote access systems and testing backup systems for disaster recovery. Ascension lost $2.66

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Thinking like a fraudster can help create additional barriers for these social engineering tricks and form a foundation for effective security awareness training so that the human factor hardens an organization's defenses instead of being the weakest link. Yet another step in prepping for the attack is to proofread the email.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing attack, results in the greatest financial losses of any cybercrime. Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations. billion USD globally.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These are attractive aspects that cybercrime groups will be unable to resist. And not only cybercrime groups, but also state-sponsored groups who have already started targeting this industry. More new “Red Team” penetration testing frameworks deployed by cybercriminals. It also offers anonymity to users.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

In a typical attack, boobytrapped emails would be sent to targeted companies posing as legitimate communications through cunning use of social engineering. ” Unusually, FIN7 presented itself as a company called Combi Security, which claimed to offer penetration testing services for businesses. million dollars.

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Hacking Penetration Testing Social Engineering Retail 52

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In some cases, with founders’ consent, the assessment includes penetration testing using social engineering methods aimed at the network compromise through the most vulnerable link at any organization– humans. This assessment focuses on open source data – white papers, information about founders, security policies.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Just like yesterday, all tech is hackable and cybercriminals penetrate 93% of company networks in less than 2-days. This can result in significant system downtime, monetary loss, lawsuits, fines, and of course reputational damage. The impact is huge, and damages can cost billions, as they did with SolarWinds and Kaseya recently.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 5, 2025

UNC6040 is using sophisticated vishing to breach Salesforce, tricking employees into granting access, exfiltrating data, and then pivoting to other cloud platforms.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 12, 2025

HelloTDS is a sophisticated traffic direction system delivering millions to FakeCaptcha and other malware via advanced fingerprinting and evasive tactics.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 11, 2025

CyberEye, a modular.NET RAT, offers widespread data theft and surveillance using a builder, Telegram C2, and anti-analysis features, making it a new threat.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 6, 2025

A new report from Mandiant, a Google Cloud company, sheds light on the renewed activity of UNC3944, a The post Scattered Spider (UNC3944) Resurfaces with Ties to DragonForce and RansomHub in Retail Attacks appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Through tenures at Citrix, HP, and Bugcrowd, Jason Haddix offers his expertise in the areas of penetration testing , web application testing, static analysis, and more.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? Social engineering schemes range from covert to obvious. OnePercent Group attacks.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Vamosi: And three years later cybercrime magazine released a similar study showing there remains a shortage of 3.5 So we have someone come and tell us about what they do in their job right so we can put some action some, you know, actual faces to some of these jobs so we did cybersecurity engineering last week.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Vamosi: And three years later cybercrime magazine released a similar study showing there remains a shortage of 3.5 So we have someone come and tell us about what they do in their job right so we can put some action some, you know, actual faces to some of these jobs so we did cybersecurity engineering last week.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Historically, Lazarus used MATA to attack various industries for cybercrime-like intentions: stealing customer databases and spreading ransomware. It is mainly known for being a proprietary commercial penetration testing toolkit officially designed for red team engagements. Southeast Asia and Korean Peninsula. Final thoughts.

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