CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Unless you need your card or Social Security number, there’s no need to keep them in your wallet. Keep highly-sensitive documents at home and make sure to properly dispose of any printed documents that contain personal data. #2: 2: Use Strong Passwords. Also, don’t carry around personal information. 4: Educate Yourself.

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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.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The prosecution documents [PDF] make for some eye-opening reading. To gain access to the email accounts, he appears to have reset account passwords by correctly guessing password reset questions. He also used lists of compromised passwords to break into one account, and discussed social engineering tricks related to Snapchat.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Brute-forcing the passwords of LinkedIn profiles and email addresses. 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. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Military Identity Theft Protection Tips From securing personal documents to practicing online safety, these tips offer military members a comprehensive approach to safeguarding this pervasive threat. Secure Document Management To maintain personal privacy, it is highly important to securely store and dispose of all sensitive documents.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2025

These packages include the malicious code, apps, social engineering functions, and back-end infrastructure to handle the unauthorized asset transfers at scale. Some come with management dashboards to oversee the progress of all the victimization, documentation, tutorials, system updates, and customer support!

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

People working remotely is no longer unusual, so the National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a short Best Practices PDF document detailing how remote workers can keep themselves safe from harm. This can help reduce the spread and impact of an infection, and keep all of those valuable work and / or home documents safe.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

For example, an email that seems to come from your boss asking you to urgently review a document before a meeting, or to provide some personal information, can easily catch us unaware. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords. Think before you click. Rosa Rowles.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Phishing vs. Vishing “While email may still be the most common mechanism for social engineering, we increasingly see attacks via social media, platforms such as WhatsApp, physical compromise, snail mail, and phone calls,” says ethical hacker FC in a blog.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Use a password manager We're not referring to Apple's iCloud Keychain password but a third-party one like 1Password, which offers biometric authentication. If you really need to have important documents with you, store them in your third-party password manager.

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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. Can’t come up with a strong password? Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

Passwords: An Easy Target. Let’s not mince words: passwords are difficult for most organizations to manage. Despite the ready availability of password management software, deployment and strategic management of passwords is difficult as your employment numbers skyrocket. Regular employee training.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

Given that 52% of people use the same password for multiple accounts, compromising one account can give a criminal access to a vast range of personal data. Tax documents such as W-2s and 1040s can be purchased for around $1.04, while Social Security numbers range from $0.19 to $62 for bundles of personal details.

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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. The ISO file also contains a decoy Word document that has an XOR-encrypted section. Figure 3 - Metadata of ISO file.

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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. Looming dangers.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager Sadly, less than 40% of all online users use a distinct password for each account, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance 2023 Oh Behave! However, even strong and unique passwords have well-documented limitations and risks.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

As expected, there was a notable increase in the adoption of digital IDs to replace paper documents. We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For example, if an app wants to access something like your contacts or files in your Documents folder on a modern version of macOS, you will be asked to allow it before the app can see that data. However, social engineering isn’t the only danger. A TCC prompt asking the user to allow access to the Downloads folder.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager Sadly, less than 40% of all online users use a distinct password for each account, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance 2023 Oh Behave! However, even strong and unique passwords have well-documented limitations and risks.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager. Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 11, 2024

There have been documented cases where companies have lost millions of dollars to this type of scam, as employees are easily fooled by the realistic nature of these deepfake videos. These QR codes often appear legitimate and may claim to link to important documents, promotions, or accounts.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Specifically, they’re encouraging people to: Boost their password usage by using strong passwords , which are long, random and unique, and using a password manager to generate and store them. In the U.S., Protect all accounts that offer multifactor authentication (MFA) with this security method.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access. Encourage strong password practices: Provide tips on how to create complex passwords and use password management tools. Internal actors also play a substantial role in cybersecurity breaches.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 5, 2025

Here's how it worked: I was socially engineered into visiting a phishing page that pretended to belong to Mailchimp who I use to send newsletters for this blog. I'd like my passkeys to be more transferable, so I'm going to store them in my dedicated password manager, 1Password.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems. Password attacks: These involve various methods to obtain or crack passwords, including brute force attacks, dictionary attacks, or credential stuffing.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For perspective, marked document, the next highest alert type, accounted for only 9% of total alerts. However, it’s likely that RedLine will resume in the short-term future (one-three months); law enforcement takedowns are usually a temporary annoyance for cybercriminals, and they often manage bounce back quickly to continue their operations.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For perspective, marked document, the next highest alert type, accounted for only 9% of total alerts. However, it’s likely that RedLine will resume in the short-term future (one-three months); law enforcement takedowns are usually a temporary annoyance for cybercriminals, and they often manage bounce back quickly to continue their operations.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Improved Passwords: Organizations seeking improved security will typically increase password strength requirements to add complexity or more frequent password rotation.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

And I think that probably the one which most people resonate with is this physical document, which again, has some attributes and fields, some pieces of information in there, which somehow represents this physical person to somebody else. He loves password managers. I use a password manager. I use one every day.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The HTML document contains PowerShell commands that execute the subsequent payload(s). Though this may sound generic, an informed workforce is a critical defense against social engineering attacks. Alternatively, consider deploying an organization-wide password manager, offering users convenience while enhancing security.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

According to public blogs, targeting was widespread but focused primarily on diplomatic entities throughout Europe and North America: based on the content of the lure documents bundled with the malware, this assessment appears to be accurate. The execution chain ultimately ended with a Cobalt Strike beacon payload being loaded into memory.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2021, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. Hacked social media accounts’ prices are decreasing across all platforms. Forged documents. Use a reliable password manager. But it’s now a digital thing too.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to the document, 84% of roughly 4,000 surveyed professionals in the U.K. said that they post on social media every week. Sadler also advises using a password manager for account credentials, and discourages reusing passwords or deriving them based on things about you that are common knowledge.

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