Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Threat actors also employed additional decoys for social engineering. Experts identified seven phishing emails that were used in the phishing campaign aimed at recipients in China’s nuclear energy industry. There is no decoy in the document.” ” reads the report published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Experts spotted a phishing campaign that employees overlay screens and email ‘quarantine’ policies to steal Microsoft Outlook credentials from the victims. Researchers from Cofense discovered a phishing campaign that uses overlay screens and email ‘quarantine’ policies to steal Microsoft Outlook credentials from the targets.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Since passports contain a significant amount of personal information, including full names, date of birth, and a unique passport number, cyber criminals could use them to impersonate victims and steal their identities.” Government-issued documents are arguably the most important form of identification a person holds. the team said.

Identity Theft 119

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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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The group often uses spear-phishing emails and messages (Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal) as an initial attack vector. Distribution of malicious files using the Signal messenger The messages use social engineering to trick victims into opening malicious attachments (i.e. HTM, HTA, and LNK files) disguised as Office documents.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Threat actors have devised a new trick to disable macro security warning that leverage non-malicious docs in malspam attacks. Most of the malspam campaigns leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. Zeus OpenSSL).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The PowerShortShell stealer is also used for Telegram surveillance and gathering system information from infected systems. Upon opening the document a DLL is dropped on the target system, then it is used to execute the PowerShortShell stealer payload. ” reads the analysis published by SafeBreach Labs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The first cluster was set up using rented virtual private servers (VPS), it was employed in watering hole and spear-phishing attacks. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. Beware of suspicious messages on social media and connection requests from strangers. About the author: CyberNews Team.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

This involves specifying the credentials, as well as the IBAN and BIC codes that will be used for the ‘swapping’ or spoofing process in the documents. The necessary login credentials for online banking systems are previously harvested through a phishing kit. Decision-making and automation of cybercriminal operations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The attackers seek to steal documents that contain commercial secrets and employee personal data. In all campaigns, RedCurl’s main goal was to steal confidential corporate documents such as contracts, financial documents, employee personal records, and records of legal actions and facility construction.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. The spam messages use weaponized office documents to drop the Ursnif banking Trojan in the final stage. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

The data from the leaked files can be used by threat actors against LinkedIn users in multiple ways by: Carrying out targeted phishing attacks. The leaked files appear to only contain LinkedIn profile information – we did not find any deeply sensitive data like credit card details or legal documents in the sample posted by the threat actor.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To see if your email address has been exposed in this or other security breaches, use our personal data leak checker. Aside from the statement of work documents and user records, the bucket contained thousands of files for various marketing materials, such as banner advertisements, newsletters, and promotional flyers. Who had access?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

Some are unaware of their involvement and fall victim to social engineering techniques like phishing scams. Others may engage in negligent behaviour, such as evading security measures for convenience. Some engage in clandestine activities like stealing private information or sensitive documents.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. In addition, cybercriminals may not limit themselves to just one attack, but could use any acquired information to pursue a larger goal. Example phishing e-mail. Leaked data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data leak discovered: 30.09.2020 Inova contacted: 01.10.2020 Amazon contacted: 06.10.2020 Turkish CERT contacted: 05.10.2020 Response received: – Server secured: 12.10.2020. After further investigation, we have concluded that these documents belonged to people injured or deceased in traffic accidents. How Did the Data Breach Happen?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, the verification process requires customers to take a photo of their ID document. Next, a client is prompted to take a selfie or upload a video to confirm whether there’s a match with the document’s photo. Threat actors can abuse PII to conduct phishing and social engineering attacks. Next steps.

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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 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 11: Zerologon detection ([link].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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 digital signature is basically based on the use of a hash algorithm.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

And not only work-from-home (WFH) employees have been affected, but also those mobile workers and all the contracted workers and supply chain workers who have largely been going under the radar of CISOs and information security departments for the past two to three decades. 15-20 minutes).

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. 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.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. Rounding out the top three is targeted phishing. This is enough time for the information security department to detect the incident and respond to the attackers’ actions.

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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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Phishing Social Engineering Security Awareness Passwords 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Another piece of sensitive information includes SQL (structured query language) logs that show what information Thomson Reuters clients were looking for. The records also include what information the query brought back. That includes documents with corporate and legal information about specific businesses or individuals.

IoT 116

IoT Engineering Passwords Media 116

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

SMS and Call Log Access: Apps requesting access to read your SMS messages and call logs can potentially extract sensitive information, such as authentication codes and contact details. This permission is often misused in phishing and spamming attacks. images and documents), or cache data locally often request this permission.

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NopSec

MAY 21, 2020

The Verizon 2020 DBIR report is out again – [link] – and most of the information security industry is busy reading and analyzing it cover to cover. In third position the “social engineering” technique is another relevant attack vector that leads to security breaches. It is that time of the year again!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Market Size: The AI cyber security market was worth around $17.4 Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7%

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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. The SMB Protocol is a standard, system that creates a connection between client and server by sending responses and requests.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Phishing and Malware Q2 2022. of the total, in comparison with 6.9%

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. For more information about the Qakbot TTPs check below the full analysis.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Penetration testing is also different from what many software developers call a security test or security assessment , which is often a secure code review or static application security testing. Penetration testing reveals an organization’s security weaknesses.

Penetration Testing 52

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The attack chain starts with phishing emails impersonating legitimate individuals at Western foreign policy research organizations, including the Pew Research Center, the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FRPI), the U.K.’s The embedded link is a OneDrive link that downloads a Microsoft Office document. Since mid-June 2022.

Social Engineering 90

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Hacking 90

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

According to the report, phishing campaigns are not identified as the most common initial vector of such ransomware attacks. Social engineering: Phishing remains a popular technique but we see new forms of phishing arising such as spear-phishing, whaling, smishing and vishing. Cybercrime actors.

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