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. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. and 11:00 p.m.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Determine which employees are vulnerable to social engineering attacks. Phishing tools like Knowbe4 and Cofense/Phishme are great training tools, but nothing substitutes for an actual concerted set of social engineering attacks, followed by illustrative technical exploits.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020).

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

MotW is a Windows security measure — the system displays a warning message when someone tries to open a file downloaded from the internet. Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. with no internet. Phishing and Social Engineering. More targeted efforts at specific users or organizations are known as spear phishing. How to Defend Against Phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Penetration testing can also involve common hacking techniques such as social engineering , phishing attacks , dropped USB drive attacks, etc. However, all it takes is one bad click on a phishing campaign, and suddenly attackers will be looking at an organization from the inside. Network accessible storage (NAS) devices.

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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. Spear phishing emails distribution. This is done for the purpose of social engineering. Passive DNS data. Figure 3: Decoy content.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021. . In this analysis we’ll take a closer look at the Internet connected infrastructure behind the U.S We’ve decided to take a closer look at the U.S

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The phishing campaign trying to impersonate DHL. For more details, see below.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This instance left sensitive data open and was already indexed via popular IoT [internet of things] search engines. According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. Media giant with $6.35

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. This is true.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites. and similar features will often be unwatched.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. The companies, whose logos are displayed here, were chosen by BlueNoroff’s for impersonation in social engineering tricks. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. abiesvc.jp[.]net. atom.publicvm[.]com. coin-squad[.]co.

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