Digital Guardian

AUGUST 18, 2023

Hacks, social engineering, and phishing dominated this week’s headlines, but cloud security is at the forefront of government officials’ minds. Catch up on all the latest in this week’s Friday Five!

Social Engineering 98

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Government 98

The Hacker News

APRIL 17, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new wave of social engineering campaigns delivering IcedID malware and leveraging Zimbra exploits with the goal of stealing sensitive information.

Social Engineering 90

Social Engineering Malware Government Hacking 90

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. 9, 2024, U.S. Twilio disclosed in Aug. According to an Aug.

Social Engineering 316

Social Engineering Mobile Cybercrime Passwords 316

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. reads a translation of the message.

Phishing 108

Phishing Social Engineering Government Accountability 108

Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

government, defense contractors, and private companies. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) is an organization within the Iranian government responsible for cybersecurity and cyber warfare. companies and government entities. entities using spear phishing and social engineering.

Government 91

Government Phishing Social Engineering Hacking 91

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

North Korea has established a hacking group named APT43 to fund its cybercrime activities, aimed at advancing Pyongyang’s geopolitical interests. Additionally, a new spying team named Archipelago, a subset of APT43, has emerged and is using phishing tactics to tar-get potential victims.

Hacking 105

Hacking Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Manufacturing 105

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Phish or Be Phished. Email phishing attacks are becoming more challenging to spot. Why did the email provider’s email anti-spam and anti-phish protection layer not quarantine the message? Even with a generic greeting, you would think an AL-powered anti-phishing protection engine would have blocked the message.

Phishing 52

Phishing Social Engineering Identity Theft Engineering 52

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

“Victims of the analyzed campaigns fit into the pattern preferred by this actor, such as air transport and government sectors in the Middle East,” reads the researcher paper published by the experts. Most of the hacking activity occurs on Friday and Saturday, coinciding with the weekend in the Middle East.

Government 115

Government Social Engineering Telecommunications Hacking 115

Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

The group focuses on energy and government sectors, in the past, the group targeted organizations in Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. Threat actors also employed additional decoys for social engineering. In some emails, people and entities in academia are also targeted, also related to nuclear energy.

Social Engineering 84

Social Engineering Phishing Engineering Government 84

eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Kevin Mitnick, who turned legendary hacking exploits and two prison terms into a career as an esteemed cybersecurity leader, died Sunday at age 59 after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer, KnowBe4 revealed today. In a 2003 interview Mitnick claimed he never used stolen information or destroyed data during his hacks.

Cybersecurity 94

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Education Engineering 94

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

Phishing 91

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 91

Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Conti ransomware gang is using BazarCall phishing attacks as an initial attack vector to access targeted networks. BazarCall attack, aka call back phishing, is an attack vector that utilizes targeted phishing methodology and was first used by the Ryuk ransomware gang in 2020/2021. Stage Three. Stage Four.

Ransomware 81

Ransomware Social Engineering Phishing Engineering 81

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to our team, the exposed files belonged to the WBSC, the world governing body for baseball, softball, and Baseball5 – a recently introduced sport combining the previous two. Government-issued documents are arguably the most important form of identification a person holds. the team said.

Identity Theft 117

Identity Theft Social Engineering Banking Risk 117

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us? Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Social Engineering 107

Social Engineering Spyware Data breaches Surveillance 107

Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. So did the 2020 Twitter hack.

Phishing 101

Phishing Scams Media Backups 101

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear. Leaders of the top hacking collectives are astute and disciplined.

Social Engineering 174

Social Engineering Cyber Attacks Scams Engineering 174

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch The logic of the raid mainly comes down to using unsecured RDP ports or spear-phishing to infiltrate networks and gain a foothold in them. inch diskettes.

Ransomware 243

Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

The main targets of the Coldriver group are high-profile individuals in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), former intelligence and military officials, and NATO governments. These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks.

Social Engineering 97

Social Engineering Government Media DNS 97

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It’s only February, and 2021 already is rapidly shaping up to be the year of supply-chain hacks. The SolarWinds hack came to light in mid-December and has since become a red hot topic in the global cybersecurity community. Video: What all companies need to know about the SolarWinds hack. Related: The quickening of cyber warfare.

Phishing 252

Phishing Hacking Accountability Social Engineering 252

Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2022

The post Mailchimp Hack Causes Theft of Trezor Crypto Wallet ‘Money’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Hackers have stolen a mother lode of personal data from Intuit’s email marketing operation, Mailchimp.

Hacking 145

Hacking Marketing Social Engineering CISO 145

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Another noticeable phishing trend targeting the corporate sector was to exploit popular cloud services as bait.

Phishing 65

Phishing Scams Accountability Banking 65

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Cyber criminals who specialize in plundering local governments and school districts are in their heyday. This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. These are soft targets,” he says. It’s simple fraud.”

Scams 147

Scams Social Engineering Ransomware Engineering 147

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

Data breaches 82

Data breaches Cybercrime Firewall Artificial Intelligence 82

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A new threat actor tracked as TA2101 is conducting malware campaigns using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy. The phishing campaigns delivering malicious attachments were observed since the end of October. SecurityAffairs – TA2101, hacking). ” concludes Proofpoint.

Government 77

Government Malware Social Engineering Banking 77

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 352 appeared first on Security Affairs.

Social Engineering 81

Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Small Business Ransomware 81

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . Pierluigi Paganini.

Cryptocurrency 111

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Media Phishing 111

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. government agencies. government agencies and large organizations were hit by cyberattacks due to a vulnerability in their IT infrastructure provider – SolarWinds. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breaches).

Data breaches 95

Data breaches Passwords Social Engineering Encryption 95

Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. Cryptocurrency and NFT attacks are rising as decentralized finance, and digital art assets become sophisticated socially engineered threats. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

Social Engineering 92

Social Engineering Mobile Scams Engineering 92

Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Perhaps we thought, who would want to hack a completely unknow person like me? Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. More than 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. At Social-Engineer LLC, our purpose is to bring education and awareness to all users of technology.

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Scams IoT 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Center is the healthcare facility that is in discussion and federal government agencies are trying to contain the incident on the servers of the facility, which is part of the Sydney West Cancer Network. According to sources, a hack has exposed data of over 780,000 children who were patients of Brightline.

Information Security 99

Information Security Healthcare Social Engineering Ransomware 99

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering.

Hacking 212

Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

The post 0ktapus/‘Scatter Swine’ Hacking Gang Stole 10,000 Corp Logins via Twilio appeared first on Security Boulevard. More on the Twilio débâcle from earlier this month: Researchers reveal the hackers swiped at least 9,931 user credentials from more than 130 organizations.

Hacking 105

Hacking Social Engineering Security Awareness Engineering 105

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews Usernames Names Government ID numbers (CURP) Phone numbers Email addresses Home addresses Dates of Birth Gender KYC status IP addresses used to register for an account IP addresses used to log in Deposit amounts Withdrawal amounts Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents. Amount of leaked data.

Passwords 104

Passwords Identity Theft Social Engineering Spyware 104

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

OpenSea, the NFT marketplace, got hacked last week. The post $3 Million Hack of NFTs—‘And Nothing of Value was Lost’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Or perhaps it didn’t. Charles Ponzi would be proud.

Hacking 98

Hacking Social Engineering Engineering Phishing 98

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Phishing accounts for nearly 90% of malware attacks, according to HP Wolf Security research. “The technology will enable attackers to efficiently combine the volume of generic phishing with the high yield of spear phishing,” said Robert Blumofe, who is the CTO and EVP at Akamai Technologies. ChatGPT Security Threats.

Cybersecurity 140

Cybersecurity Phishing Technology Malware 140

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

Phishing 76

Phishing Social Engineering Authentication Government 76

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to the Hunter Unit from Resecurity, previously, the “GXC Team” gained notoriety for creating a wide array of online fraud tools, ranging from compromised payment data checkers to sophisticated phishing and smishing kits. Utilizing AI-driven bots for advanced social engineering techniques.

Artificial Intelligence 118

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 118