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. This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. 1 How do you define social engineering? 3 What is a solution to virtual social engineering schemes?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2022

Utilizing threats and other “social engineering” methods, individuals acting maliciously were able to exploit human error within our customer experience team and bypass two-factor authentication to gain access to player accounts. The best combination, if available, is probably a password manager and a hardware security key.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

According to the password management software firm, the employee was contacted outside of the business hours. In a fraudulent scheme, criminals used deepfake technology to impersonate LastPass ‘s CEO, targeting an employee of the company.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Utilize a Password Manager As humans we like things that are easy to remember, and that doesn’t change when it comes to passwords. However, easy to remember and reused passwords are weak passwords that can easily be cracked and leveraged across accounts. Our speakers are all trained and certified Social Engineers.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

March Madness is a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to deploy phishing lures, malicious apps, and social engineering tactics," warns Krishna Vishnubhotla, VP of Product Strategy at mobile security firm Zimperium. The emotional investment and spike in online activity create a perfect storm that organizations need to protect against."

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

No matter how many letters, numbers, or special characters you give them and no matter how many times you change them, passwords are still @N0T_FUN! Using strong passwords and a password manager 2. Avoid Personal Information: Ensure that your password does not contain any personal information, like a phone number.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers. LastPass revealed that the home computer of one of its DevOp engineers was hacked as part of a sophisticated cyberattack.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2024

This issue explore voice cloning—highlighted by recent breakthroughs such as OpenAI's Voice Engine—exploring the implications for security and personal privacy in the digital age. In a disturbing incident, scammers used voice cloning to impersonate the CEO of LastPass , a major password management firm.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In a recent malvertising campaign, we observed a malicious Google ad for KeePass, the open-source password manager which was extremely deceiving. Malicious ad for KeePass The malicious advert shows up when you perform a Google search for 'keepass', the popular open-source password manager.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Worse still is people using their pet’s name, or their maiden name, or some other relatively easy to obtain piece of information as their password, or their password reset question. Shoring up your passwords. Try a password manager. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Chris Eng said “ Someone should set up a GoFundMe to send whoever wrote the hit piece on password managers to a threat modeling class. It asserted that these flaws mean that a password manager is no better than a text file full of your passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Meanwhile, a quarter report that they’ve used generic passwords like “password” and “ABC123.”All

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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. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

It was an old-school use of mirrored websites and social engineering to get USPS employees to enter their information into a fraudulent website. Using a password manager such as Keeper can help users avoid phony lookalike websites. This was a not an incredibly technical attack.

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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. How to prevent vishing attacks A vishing attempt is an attack that requires time.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers. LastPass revealed that the home computer of one of its DevOp engineers was hacked as part of a sophisticated cyberattack. in May 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The same thing happened with LastPass, a company that offers password managing services. From a technical point of view, the cyber crooks used the stolen source code and other tech details got from a keylogger malware planted on the device of a DevOps Engineer to launch a digital attack for the second time at the end of last year.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2024

Security platform providers like Judy Security offer a pre-engineered platform built with assurance of seamless integration, interoperability, and an umbrella of contiguous support that works. Effective pre-engineered platforms assure this is the case. This is in essence “Security-led Managed IT Services”.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. The most common root causes for initial breaches stem from social engineering and unpatched software, as those account for more than 90% of phishing attacks. Social engineering has its tells, though.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Use private search engines Which search engines should you use? Avoid search engines like Google Search and Bing I’ve mastered this guide. Use a secure (encrypted) email provider Which secure email provider should you use? Avoid using popular yet privacy invasive email service providers 3. What should I do next?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 21, 2023

According to a recent blog post : "Operation DreamJob is the name for a series of campaigns where the group uses social engineering techniques to compromise its targets, with fake job offers as the lure. In these cases, the attacker knows who to target for access and can tailor messaging and social engineering efforts to that specific victim.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

“If the account is active, hackers then can go to the next stage for 2FA phishing or social engineering, or linking the accounts with another.” “This is just more empirical data around the fact that passwords just need to go away,” Knight said.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. Watch for phishing and social engineering. The best way to stay safe is to be aware of the threat—and learn how to spot phishing and social engineering attacks when you encounter them. Bad actors are always on the lookout for easy-to-breach gaming accounts.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

Keyloggers : These covert programs record your keystrokes, including your usernames and passwords, without your knowledge. Social Engineering : Cybercriminals manipulate and deceive individuals into divulging their credentials through psychological manipulation or impersonation.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

Keyloggers : These covert programs record your keystrokes, including your usernames and passwords, without your knowledge. Social Engineering : Cybercriminals manipulate and deceive individuals into divulging their credentials through psychological manipulation or impersonation.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2021

Once the user enters their password a second time, the page directs to a legitimate Sophos website that claims the email message has been released. This is another layer of social engineering to deceive the victim. One thing to remember, a password manager can help you against phishing. Recognizing the phish.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Below are the recommendations provided by Armorblox to identify phishing messages: Augment native email security with additional controls; Watch out for social engineering cues; Follow multi-factor authentication and password management best practices; Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Based on recent cybercriminal activity, businesses should expect increased social engineering and train employees to recognize the signs of such attacks. And with new social engineering trends like “callback phishing” on the rise, it’s not just businesses that should be concerned.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2023

These types of attacks often depend on social engineering to trick users into clicking malicious links or downloading malware. This includes a combination of training and awareness programs, leveraging human intelligence to recognize and report threats, and employing technological solutions such as AI and password managers.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Default passwords, even if they are more complex, have the huge disadvantage that they can be found by simply looking up the product documentation in a search engine. For that reason, using default passwords is considered a serious security risk. You know, the ones used during an initial setup that are supposed to be changed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 7, 2022

Now the big question, how do hackers steal passwords? Hackers use many ways to steal a password, and some of them include phishing attempts and other social engineering attacks. They also use malware for stealing the password from a browser when a user is seeking an online service.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2022

There are rootkits, Trojans, worms, viruses, ransomware, phishing, identity theft, and social engineering to worry about. Use a strong, unique password for each login you use. Use a password manager to create and remember passwords if you can. That risk still exists, but we all face many other threats today too.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

These are examples of weak passwords that will put your accounts at risk. We know it’s difficult to remember complex, meaningless passwords, which is why specialists use password managers. This way, you only have to remember one password that keeps the rest safe. . #3: 3: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The password management and security application 1Password announced it had detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on September 29, but excluded that user data was exposed. The activity is linked to the recent attack on the Okta support case management system. . ” states the incident report.

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