SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

Most often, communication between the service provider and the client takes place via VPN connections and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services. Access is set up using a certificate or a login/password pair, and in rare cases multi-factor authentication is added. Rounding out the top three is targeted phishing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2022

These may be obtained by phishing, social engineering, insider threats, or carelessly handed data. Imagine if all of them had never taken place because the initial point of entry, a phished password, had been protected with MFA. Use of vendor-supplied default configurations or default usernames and passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games) to hijack the channel of YouTube creators. The malware landing page is disguised as a software download URL that was sent via email or a PDF on Google Drive, or via Google documents containing the phishing links.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

TAP abuse helps us with that issue in two ways: We can add a temporary password to a victim user without invalidating their existing password, ensuring that the user won’t notice a password change. This means that we can use this password directly, without needing a second factor like an application code or SMS.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2023

Particularly in the workplace, staff can become overwhelmed with security warnings, IT alerts, cybersecurity policy documents, password change requests, or even media consumption of stories about data breaches at other companies. If employees aren't careful, they can fall for this social engineering tactic.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority. Hackers are well aware of this and collect passwords from credential dumps or the dark web. million to $4.24

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data. What is phishing?

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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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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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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Employee education programs should include guidelines on securing home networks, updating router passwords, and ensuring the security of connected devices. Social Engineering and Cyberattacks Phishing attacks and social engineering methods continue exploiting technical and human vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s a good idea to try things on your own and then read the documentation or tutorials. You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g.,

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

If you create a system and it accepts files or text, people will put their passwords or sensitive customer information posthaste. They’d have to be on the VPN to access it”). This can be both time-consuming and tedious. Why do we do boring stuff, then? Because it’s usually fruitful! This is something adversaries use to their advantage.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. Financial departments at high risk.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When downloading the games from untrustworthy sources, players may receive malicious software that can gather sensitive data like login information or passwords from the victim’s device; and in an attempt to download a desired game for free, find a cool mod or cheat, gamers can actually lose their accounts or even money.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They would just keep jamming a few individuals to get [remote] access, read some onboarding documents, enroll a new 2FA [two-factor authentication method] and exfiltrate code or secrets, like a smash-and-grab,” the CXO said. ” Like LAPSUS$, these vishers just kept up their social engineering attacks until they succeeded.

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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. It provides victims with a VPN connection that can be used to browse these resources. Russian-speaking activity. í religion that are banned in Iran.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With a mix of infiltration, social engineering, and many hours of investigative work, authorities were able to discover Ulbricht’s identity. Consider using a VPN to maintain greater anonymity. Change your passwords for your online accounts and create strong, unique passwords for each account.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The campaign is said to involve breaking into news websites or social media accounts of government officials in order to publish forged documents, fake news and misleading opinions meant to sway elections, disrupt local political eco-systems and create distrust of NATO. But this prediction also came true another way.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as long as the proper documents are provided and the request appears to come from an email address connected to an actual police department domain name.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks. As a precaution, they revoked all security certificates and passwords for their web portal. Market Size: The AI cyber security market was worth around $17.4

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN). T-Mobile currently has approximately 75,000 employees worldwide.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Experts pointed out that Iranian threat actors operators are more patient and persistent with their social engineering campaigns, however, they continue to conduct aggressive brute force attacks on their targets. Microsoft added that password spray attacks on Office 365 accounts with multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled failed.

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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. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 31, 2021

Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. In the case of user efficiency, now with a full remote workflow for user authentication, all devices are authenticating over an enterprise VPN client. Moving to a Zero Trust architecture would help with this model if setup in a single sign-on, VPN-less architecture.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This email contained a link leading to a password-protected archive hosted on Google Drive, which represented the first stage of the infection – a.NET binary that was obfuscated and trying to pass itself off as an OpenVPN binary, when in fact it was a malware loader.

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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 good password practices. Do not use the same password for several accounts.

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