Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. dll (Nitrogen).

System Administration 107

System Administration DNS Engineering Social Engineering 107

The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

Starting out on a help desk, Chris worked his way up to roles as a system administrator and network engineer, eventually taking the IT helm at a power provider with a portfolio of over 30 North American plants, including three nuclear facilities.

CSO 59

CSO Risk Energy and Utilities Social Engineering 59

Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Victims are lured into downloading the malware with a variety of social engineering tactics, including spearphishing. Educate users on social engineering attacks like spearphishing. All of this is done to create an environment where the group can initiate fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions.

Social Engineering 120

Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Computers and Electronics Engineering 120

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. Continuously educating your workforce. Continuously Educate Your Workforce. dollars to remediate per incident.

Social Engineering 78

Social Engineering Education Technology Engineering 78

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. As managing vulnerabilities in embedded systems become increasingly crucial to cybersecurity, Maria Markstedter offers her expertise as an independent security researcher and founder of Azeria Labs.

Accountability 139

Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. Insiders with privileged access expose companies to the most dangerous cyber threats , and damage the most valuable and sensitive corporate data.

Security Awareness 40

Security Awareness Risk Cyber threats Cyber Risk 40

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Our telemetry indicates that dozens of organizations were affected, belonging to the government or military sector, or otherwise related to the health, diplomacy, education or political verticals. By hiding the truth and not communicating with us, what happened will be published on social media and yet in news websites.

Ransomware 138

Ransomware Malware Banking Encryption 138