Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This process, he explained, essentially self-selects people who are more likely to be susceptible to their social engineering schemes. [It You may also wish to download Google Authenticator to another mobile device that you control.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 20, 2023

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. Read on to learn how to recognize social engineering attacks, their consequences, and tactics to avoid falling for them.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

Fraudsters use AI, social engineering, and emotional manipulation to steal not just money, but also trust, time, and peace of mind. Auto-fill Exploits: A small but critical sign when your password manager doesnt autofill it might be a scam site. Avoid reusing passwords across different services. turning off MFA).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Using a very clever social engineering attack that exploits trusted domains, the adversary can then further escalate the profile hijacking attack to steal passwords from the victims browser. This allows the extension to directly interact with local apps without further authentication.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 26, 2024

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO READ ABOUT: Snapchat Password Cracking Tools: A Guide to Staying Safe Harness Biometric Security Features While Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is widely recommended, integrating biometric security adds an unmatched layer of protection. Create a schedule where passwords are changed automatically or at regular intervals.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cybercriminals employ social engineering techniques to trick you into believing you must resolve fictitious technical issues. The hallmark of ClickFix campaigns is their clever use of social engineering. Options like waiting rooms and password-protected meetings can help prevent unauthorized access.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. According to an Aug.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. Hacker targets victims with fear. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes. Todays threat actors use AI to craft compelling phishing campaigns and advanced social engineering tactics to slip past MFA, resulting in credential theft and account takeovers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In late March 2023, 3CX disclosed that its desktop applications for both Windows and macOS were compromised with malicious code that gave attackers the ability to download and run code on all machines where the app was installed. Microsoft Corp.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Back in September, we described how malicious ads were tricking victims into downloading this piece of malware under the disguise of a popular application. Victims are instructed on how to open the file which immediately runs commands after prompting for the administrative password.

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Hacker's King

MAY 24, 2025

Credential-based attacks include usernames, passwords, and tokens. The aim here is malicious and weaker than what appears to achieve: make the user reveal intensely guarded secrets, login information, alongside financial details, and in some cases, download harmful software.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

For those who can’t be convinced to use a password manager, even writing down all of the account details and passwords on a slip of paper can be helpful, provided the document is secured in a safe place. Perhaps the most important place to enable MFA is with your email accounts. Ditto for the Internal Revenue Service.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Such lures are used as social engineering schemes by threat actors; in this case, the malware was targeted at security researchers. We have recently observed other instances of threat actors targeting security researchers with social engineering techniques. BITS Job download. Stage 1: SFX archive.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. Distribution of financial phishing pages by category, 2024 ( download ) Online shopping scams The most popular online brand target for fraudsters was Amazon (33.19%). on the previous year.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust. Phishing attacks.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. Gaming is now an online social activity. This gives scammers lots of opportunities to approach unwary gamers and try to trick them into downloading malware, giving up personal details, or handing over login credentials. Use a strong, unique password for every account that you have.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

The exposed records include email addresses full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn username and profile URL, personal and professional experience/background, genders, and other social media accounts and usernames. Passwords are not included in the archive. ” reported RestorePrivacy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

The group continued to carry out password spray attacks targeting the educational sector for infrastructure procurement and focused on the satellite, government, and defense sectors for intelligence gathering. Microsoft discovered that the threat actors used fraudulent subscriptions to its services and promptly disrupted them.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. It works because users often use the same password for multiple websites. It's good in theory but fails in practice.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2023

According to Shadow, no passwords or sensitive banking data have been compromised. Shadow says the incident happened at the end of September, and was the result of a social engineering attack on a Shadow employee. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates. Once active in the background, the malware constantly monitored system events triggered by other applications.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

But Machin warns: "Clicking on a seemingly innocent link within an e-card can lead to downloading malware or being redirected to a phishing website designed to capture personal or company details." Using strong, unique passwords for dating apps and online stores is also a good idea."

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. Do you really need to do it?

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” During this call, they would attempt to convince the user to download an RMM tool and allow the attacker access to the user’s host. What Happened?

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The malevolent seven: ENISA report identifies prime cybersecurity threats Ransomware; malware; social engineering; threats against data; threats against availability (denial of service); information manipulation and interference; and supply chain attacks. The full report runs to 129 pages and is free to download.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Most of the malspam campaigns leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. Hackers downloads and executes malicious DLLs ( ZLoader ) without any malicious code present in the initial spammed attachment macro. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Warzone RAT malware, a sophisticated Remote Access Trojan (RAT), enabled cybercriminals to browse victims’ file systems, take screenshots, record keystrokes, steal victims’ usernames and passwords, and watch victims through their web cameras, all without their knowledge or permission. Never open unsolicited email attachments.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 23, 2024

On the surface, this website resembled a professionally designed product page for a decentralized finance (DeFi) NFT-based (non-fungible token) multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) tank game, inviting users to download a trial version. But that was just a disguise. As big computer games fans ourselves, we immediately wanted to try it.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Download full report (PDF). Security issues with passwords, software vulnerabilities and social engineering combined into an overwhelming majority of initial access vectors during attacks. The Incident response analyst report provides insights into incident investigation services conducted by Kaspersky in 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The massive trove of emails was left on a publicly accessible Amazon AWS server, allowing anyone to download and access the data. While it is unclear if any malicious actors have accessed the S3 bucket, anyone who knew where to look could have downloaded and accessed the CSV files, without needing any kind of permission.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. Having long passwords and a password manager can also add additional layers of security and protect you as a customer. And now UScellular admits that it detected its network breach on Jan.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The malware, which received commands via the Dropbox cloud service, was used to download additional payloads. These documents are in fact password-protected ZIP or other archives. All the active sub-campaigns host the initial downloader on Dropbox. One of these was an implant called GrewApacha, used by APT31 since at least 2021.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Experts uncovered a new Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) -themed campaign that is distributing a malware downloader that delivers the FormBook information-stealing Trojan. ’ The executable employed in this campaign is a strain of the GuLoader malware downloader. The malware can also execute commands from a command and control (C2) server.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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. “Most of the observed malware was capable of stealing both user passwords and cookies. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The state of security in retail and hospitality RH-ISAC reports “organizations are seeing an increase in the prevalence of credential harvesting attempts, especially leveraging social engineering tactics.” Get started by downloading our ebook, Retail Cybersecurity: The Journey to Zero Trust , today.

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