Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. For example, the Lockbit 2.0 “Would you like to earn millions of dollars?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Big game attacks extort vast ransoms from organizations by holding their data hostage—either with encryption, the threat of damaging data leaks, or both. Top of the list is “Big Game” ransomware, the most serious cyberthreat to businesses all around the world.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The impact is expected to grow for several reasons: AI already helps cybercriminals to compose more effective phishing emails. Reconnaissance and social engineering are specific fields where AI can be deployed. Stop malicious encryption. AI will help to improve existing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

As per the freedom of information request submitted to about 273 organizations, organizational heads from 262 organizations agreed to disclose critical internal documents to the researchers conducting the study. Others were of different genre such as mining software, phishing and social engineering attacks.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 20, 2024

Today, common cyber threats include phishing, ransomware, and malware attacks, each capable of significantly disrupting operations and compromising sensitive data. Establish a Strong Security Policy A security policy is a set of documents that outlines how your company plans to protect its physical and IT assets.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

tag=Advanced Threat Protection'>Advanced Threat Protection</a> On 19 July, the UK will finally lift the final social distancing measures that were put in place during the pandemic. This uses encryption and authentication to allow the safe transfer of files inside and outside the organization.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Lack of Encryption Cloud computing involves data transmission over networks and storage in shared infrastructures. Encryption is vital due to the distributed and multi-tenant nature of cloud services. Teams must implement encryption measures compatible with cloud environments to protect data across various states.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 10, 2023

In this new campaign, the relationship between Europe and ASEAN countries is very likely being exploited in the form of social engineering lures against military and government entities in Southeast Asian nations. Malware Execution Flow KamiKakaBot is delivered via phishing emails that contain a malicious ISO file as an attachment.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Upon execution of the PlugX loader a Microsoft Office Word document opens. The document is named “ draft letter to European Commission RUSSIAN OIL PRICE CAP sg de.docx ”. This is a decoy document to trick the user into thinking there is no malicious activity. Figure 8 – Decompiled PlugX loader contains decryption function.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Criminals could use the leaked data to make social engineering attacks more believable, so Hellmann is asking people that do business with it to look out for fraudulent mails and calls. While companies can use backups to recover from data encryption without paying the ransom, they can’t use them to contain leaks.

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Cytelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Here are seven best practices for cybersecurity in small businesses: Employee Education and Training: Provide cybersecurity awareness training to your employees, teaching them about common threats such as phishing emails, social engineering, and the importance of strong passwords. WPA2 or WPA3).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Hash encryption is used to ensure integrity and authentication. In a tipical network correspondence, the elements sent to the recipient are the original document in clear text and the hash value of the original document, encrypted with the private key of the signatory (digital signature). The hash function.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Sometimes, it’s used even if an attack being discussed is a basic phish, or maybe some very generic malware. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. However, TrickBot is a pretty formidable opponent.

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Spinone

APRIL 13, 2020

They include insider threats, phishing, and ransomware. Phishing Phishing is one of the most significant cyber security risks, especially for remote workers or during the transition period between office and remote work. Phishing attacks are tricky, because even one sloppy click can put the whole system in danger.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Although email phishing and fraudulent websites are not a new threat to the digital community, the attack vectors deployed by scammers have become more diverse and sophisticated. While some may be harmless, consisting of ads from retailers, criminals also use emails in mass-market phishing campaigns.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. A document sent from one colleague to another on a topic, which is currently being discussed, is unlikely to trigger any suspicion. Ultimately, it elevates the level of trust sufficiently for the document to be opened.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The proof is the leverage of the current physical threat, the CoronaVirus (COVID-19), as a social engineering trick to infect the cyber world. It is not new for cyber-crooks to exploit social phenomena to spread malware in order to maximize the impact and dissemination of a malicious campaign. Technical Analysis.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

In one case, an executive cut and pasted the firm's 2023 strategy document into ChatGPT and asked it to create a PowerPoint deck. 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 Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

When malware initiates, it requests Google Drive documents for details on the C2’s IP address. The success of malicious campaigns always depends on the starting point of infection: social engineering. This new threat takes advantage of google-sites and Google Drive documents to distribute the threat in Portugal.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

Social engineering lures are a good example. These detect phishing emails and remove threats from messages, documents and other files and disable any URLs before they even enter the network, a process known as content sanitization. This is where advanced email security solutions can play an important role.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

RBI solutions typically allow the configuration of file upload and download profiles, restricting the types of files that can be submitted or retrieved from websites based on multiple factors such as file extension, size, entropy/encryption of data, signatures, site reputation, and more. This can be due to encryption or even size.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In other systems, other types of scripts were found, namely webshells, and also SMTP senders to leverage social engineering campaigns (Figure 6). Figure 6: SMTP senders used by criminals to leverage social engineering campaigns. How this vulnerability has been abused by criminals. Figure 10: Zerologon flaw ([link].

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. Enable encryption or use a VPN so that no one can intercept the data traveling through your network while you interact with your database.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

in their infrastructure, while the rest discovered they had been infiltrated via a third party only after data leakage or encryption. Rounding out the top three is targeted phishing. Only after this did they proceed to encrypt the data. In other cases, they used data that was stolen before the incident began.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We first documented the threat actor HotCousin in 2021 as a cluster of malicious activities leveraging the EnvyScout implant, publicly attributed to Dark Halo (NOBELIUM) by Microsoft. First, the actor sends a spear-phishing email to the potential victim with a lure to download additional documents. Russian-speaking activity.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Capture the technical details: Include notes, screenshots, and log files in the report, but to make documentation less disruptive, take video and narrate while conducting the pentest and take screenshots later. For electronic copies, the acronyms used elsewhere in the report could use internal document links directly to this appendix.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users. Despite awareness of phishing emails increasing over recent years, most people still find it difficult to tell genuine and fake emails apart.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

When printing a document, a person may use their computer, the client, to send a request to a colleague’s computer, the server, with a request to print the document. In some instances, the attacker might choose to deploy ransomware across the network, encrypting important files and bringing operations to a halt.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Encryption vulnerabilities. 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. XPATH is a query language used for XML documents.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. We saw, for example, spoofed messages about a comment added to a document stored in the cloud. Statistics: phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. Encrypts critical email exchanges to protect the security of information during transmission.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Ransomware attacks are strategically designed to either encrypt or delete critical data and system files, compelling organisations to meet the attackers’ financial demands. By keeping the encryption key on the infected device, ransomware may gradually encrypt files. How are victims of Ransomware exploited?

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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. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing.

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