The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Quantum computing advances are making traditional encryption obsolete, and adversaries are stockpiling data for future decryption. FIPS-203 enables legal PQC deployment, prompting CISOs to overhaul encryption strategies. Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches.

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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. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. “Without the buyers and the resellers, there is no incentive to hack into all these social media and gaming companies.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

” According to ID.me, a major driver of phony jobless claims comes from social engineering, where people have given away personal data in response to romance or sweepstakes scams, or after applying for what they thought was a legitimate work-from-home job. The amount of fraud we are fighting is truly staggering.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Once opened, the email appears as a legitimate email communication from American Express, while the content instructs the cardholder on how to view the secure, encrypted message attached. The post A new phishing scam targets American Express cardholders appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams. ” SEPTEMBER.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

In addition, even simple training or quizzes on how to spot a phishing attack will help individuals to avoid being caught up in a scam or a potential attack. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Sensitive info should always be encrypted, as it helps to prevent data spillage while being stored and transmitted. Following basic cybersecurity hygiene by students and staff while sharing the data is also important, as it avoids being targeted by phishing scams or other type of social engineering attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. File encryption 2013 – 2015. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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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. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The research , released this morning, reveals how attackers are leveraging advanced social engineering, obfuscation techniques, and device exploitation to steal credentials and compromise financial and corporate applications. These apps act as droppers, silently installing the AppLite trojan.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . The crypto-currency scams, which started in 2019, saw hackers recruit their targets on one Russian-speaking platform. They had the targeted unsuspecting persons with phishing emails that promised phoney collaboration opportunities.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

Streamlined RaaS Operations: The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem has become more efficient, with affiliates adopting new, more specialized strategies like help-desk scams to accelerate and refine their attacks. The success of these help-desk scams hinges on the abuse of standard IT practices, particularly remote management sessions.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Once hijacked the channel, attackers either sell it to the highest bidder or employ it in cryptocurrency scam scheme. Some of the samples employed several anti-sandboxing techniques including enlarged files, encrypted archive and download IP cloaking. The hackers used fake collaboration opportunities (i.e.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

A little more than a week later, cybersecurity firm Armorblox outlined an account takeover attack that leveraged malicious phishing and social engineering. The servers process meeting audio and video content, which means that an attacker who compromised the system could monitor any Zoom meetings that didn’t have end-to-end encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. An SSL certificate ensures that the website is encrypted and secure. Related: Credential stuffing explained.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Once the GuLoader malware has downloaded an encrypted file from [link] it will decrypt it and inject the malware into the legitimate Windows wininit.exe process. See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information.

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Hacker's King

MAY 24, 2025

In simpler terms, phishing scams, brute force attacks, and MFA bypass techniques. Recently, phishing scams have expanded and come out of emails. Phishing is now done through text messages (smishing), social media (social engineering), and even voice phone calls (vishing).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Phishing and Fraud Bad actors can defraud customers out of their money, financial details, and other sensitive data by using deception and social engineering. By using AI to compose phishing messages, bad actors can avoid many of the telltale signs that indicate a scam, such as spelling and grammar errors and awkward phrasing.

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Webroot

MAY 28, 2025

Many of their favorite activities, including gaming and connecting with friends on social media, are connected to the internet. From phishing scams to malware , hackers are constantly looking for ways to exploit weaknesses in cybersecurity systems and software. The most common type of social engineering is phishing.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. Archive with phishing kits posted in a Telegram scam channel Contents of a free phishing kit archive Phishers also share stolen personal data with their subscribers, tagging it with information on whether it was verified or not.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. A short period of time is plenty to get access to sensitive data, exfiltrate it, cover tracks, delete or encrypt valuable data, and potentially increase persistence in the environment for future usage.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The following vectors represent some of the most common ways a criminal could gain access to your accounts and is also known as an account takeover : Social Engineering. VPNs are encrypted connections that link your device to a remote server. Awareness of Phishing Scams. A common example is phishing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

For example, electronic health records (EHRs) give patients remote access to their data, but users may fall for phishing scams. Encrypt Data at All Points. Another crucial step in securing health care data is encrypting it. Many services encrypt data at rest, but it’s also crucial to ensure you do so in transit.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

CISA and the FBI consider Scattered Spider to be experts that use multiple social engineering techniques, especially phishing, push bombing, and SIM swap attacks, to obtain credentials, install remote access tools, and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Stop malicious encryption.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The TrafficLight extension checks the websites you access for known cyber threats, keeping your devices safe from attacks by info-stealing and file-encrypting malware. Moreover, the anti-fraud filtering system warns you if the websites you visit are trying to scam you, keeping your credit card and personally identifiable information safe.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Scattered Spider, on the contrary, highlights the peril posed when ready-made RaaS software merges with seasoned experience: In both of their casino breaches, the group employed advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), including in-depth reconnaissance, social engineering, and advanced lateral movement techniques.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Hybrid approach : Attackers can use a slew of different social engineering scams, such as technical support scams or malvertising, to trick employees into installing RMM tools onto their own machines, enabling both initial access and a mechanism for ransomware deployment.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Ransomware gangs also got stealthier in 2023, with ThreatLabz observing an increase in encryption-less extortion attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. Deepfakes create hyper-realistic fake videos or voices that fool people, and identity theft helps attackers pretend to be someone else to steal data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2021

Malware authors and social engineers have relied on shame and the threat of exposure for years. Whereas typical ransomware attacks involve encryption of all available files. Shaming victims into action. Nothing encourages potential victims to pay up like a solid threat. This isn’t something to underestimate or dismiss.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. The folks monitoring bank website flows to figure out how to defeat multi-factor encryption? Big scams, big numbers. Peeling back the TrickBot onion.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 28, 2024

Recent reports claim that the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team stated that a cybercriminal group, identified as Storm-1811, has been exploiting Microsoft’s Quick Assist tool in a series of social engineering attacks. This group is known for deploying the Black Basta ransomware attack.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 26, 2023

Many of today's most dangerous threats are delivered through social engineering, i.e., by tricking users into giving up their data, or downloading malware from an infected email attachment. Unsolicited phone calls and websites that do this are known as tech support scams. Disable web push notif ications.

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