The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. With the rise in social media, criminals have more platforms with which to target potential phishing victims. It can cost a company millions of dollars, or lead to individual identity theft and invasion of privacy.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

SIM swapping can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier. However, if you have a telecoms manager on your payroll then there’s no need for social engineering—they can just do the SIM swap for you.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides Risk Level Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, AHOY! Try these tips for securing the digital treasure trove that is your social media presence. The age of digitization has transformed social media platforms into essential tools for personal and professional communication.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides Risk Level Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, AHOY! Try these tips for securing the digital treasure trove that is your social media presence. The age of digitization has transformed social media platforms into essential tools for personal and professional communication.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. The publication said the judge overseeing Urban’s case denied bail because the defendant was a strong flight risk. 9, 2024, U.S. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2024

In earlier days of scams like these, success depended a great deal on the criminal’s skills at social engineering, but rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) mean scammers can now easily and convincingly fake the “voice” of the relative that is the supposed victim of the accident.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2023

Security fatigue is a major risk for businesses. Particularly in the workplace, staff can become overwhelmed with security warnings, IT alerts, cybersecurity policy documents, password change requests, or even media consumption of stories about data breaches at other companies. What is security fatigue?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

“In the current digital landscape, identity security has gained paramount importance due to the growing cyber risks posed by phishing and social engineering attacks utilizing AI. For instance, popular social media platforms such as YouTube and Twitter have seen a surge in account takeovers and impersonation incidents.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. In many ways, it’s the perfect crime for anyone indulging in social engineering. Digging into identity theft. ” Preventing identity theft.

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Identity IQ

MAY 30, 2023

In this article, we answer these questions and more, so you can understand the risks and how to help protect yourself from possible scams down the road. These breaches can happen due to vulnerabilities in the database software, or through social engineering techniques that trick employees into revealing their login credentials.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

A common misconception among the digital community is that older exposed or stolen data has an expiration date and does not cause any future security risks. If users can’t rely on companies to keep their data safe, it might be time to reassess online behaviors by limiting the information shared with social media platforms.”

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Phishing is a type of social engineering scam most commonly hidden in a fraudulent email but sometimes via text message, website, or phone call where a criminal posing as a legitimate institution, such as a bank or service, tries to obtain sensitive information from a target victim. Social Media Phishing. Spear Phishing.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

The risks to the privacy of Australian customers are at an all-time high, as the nation has reported the highest percentage of mobile threats globally, standing at 26.9%. The Australian population is at most risk if you consider the statistics on a per-device basis. Australian Mobile Cybersecurity in 2022.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This includes your personally identifiable information as well as your online behavior and any authentication factors you use to verify your identity when accessing online services. In this article, we’ll be covering the following topics: What are the Components of a Digital Identity? Why is Your Digital Identity Important?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Even with some excellent advanced threat protection, do not risk exposure to your device. Does this phishing attack constitute a possible identity theft? Phishing attacks often rely on social engineering techniques to trick users into revealing sensitive data. Thank you to Google for granting so much storage.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At Social-Engineer, we define impersonation as “the practice of pretexting as another person with the goal of obtaining information or access to a person, company, or computer system.” The Takeaway Impersonation scams are not merely nuisances; they pose significant risks to individuals and organizations alike.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

This is a question of whether you have permission to inventory, classify, and perform a risk analysis on the networks supporting a home user’s environment. A pentest should not be conducted if the receiver’s identity is not predictable with high confidence. Social media accounts associated only with personal, non-business usage.

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Identity IQ

MAY 16, 2023

Scammers often obtain victims’ phone numbers from online sales listings or social media platforms and initiate contact, pretending to be an interested buyer or seller. This can be used to deceive individuals or organizations and potentially facilitate scams or social engineering attacks. phone number.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

What’s more, Hodson observed, the email addresses and phone numbers in the leak can easily be leveraged for email or phone scams, spam campaigns, and identity theft. Further reading : How to Control API Security Risks. ” A Wake-Up Call for Social Media Users. ” LinkedIn’s Response.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Staying safe online is not just a worry for parents of young children and teenagers – organizations are also constantly at risk from cyber-attacks, which is why training staff to reduce the likelihood of any such attack is crucial. So why is it vital to train employees on cybersecurity and internet risks? Remote working risks.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 28, 2021

Check if your personal info has been stolen or made public on the internet with Bitdefender’s Digital Identity Protection tool. Digital and physical security risks for victims. By combining the info, cybercriminals can deploy compelling social engineering attacks that may lead to account takeover, identify theft and fraud.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Category News, Privacy Risk Level. It’s a harsh realization we are dealing with more by the day as social media, and a litany of applications and hosted software products invade our daily lives, and in the process, our privacy. social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap).

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The personal information collected could then be used to fraudulently bill federal health care programs and commit medical identity theft. Scammers often impersonate disaster relief organizations using social media, fake websites, and emails, to solicit donations or offer fake assistance.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The main difference between this case and most of the previous ones is that usually when an API key is left exposed, the major risk is to the application/vendor; a good example for that will be AWS S3 API keys exposed on Github. And the collected PII can be used to launch other social engineering attacks or identity theft.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Supples spoke to SC Media in an interview alongside EBCS Director David Maimon, who said his research team would study the modus operandi of cybercriminals operating on the dark net and other encrypted channels, as well as the different types of fraud exist across various platforms – and how they evolve.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The answer, like most other cybersecurity-adjacent answers, lies in a combination of factors including social engineering , weak passwords, and other risky security moves or attacks. Picking on someone…credential compromise in Australia It goes without saying that a lack of MFA puts your company or personal accounts at risk.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. Otavio Freire, CTO, SafeGuard Cyber.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Normally, doxing involves a threat to specific people, such as media personalities or participants of online discussions. During these conversations, cybercriminals employed social engineering techniques to gain access not only to the internal network of the company, but also to tools that enabled them to manage Twitter user accounts.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. It can be through email, placing them on file-sharing sites, or removable media such as USB sticks.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

As a whole, these vulnerabilities pose a serious risk to the health care enterprise. As shared in real-time with SC Media, Schrader used Shodan.io The combination of data could readily enable social engineering attacks, fraud, full-fledged identity theft attacks, and other cybercrimes, he warned.

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Identity IQ

MAY 15, 2021

So it helps to understand how they do it so you can prevent account takeover and other forms of identity theft. In this guide, we’ll discuss some of the biggest password security risks you face and some things you can do to better protect your digital identity. Keylogging: Medium Level Risk. Credential Stuffing.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Digital Shadows reports that out of its total client base, businesses operating in the financial services, food and beverage, technology, health care, and insurance verticals were responsible for nearly half of all total risk events observed. “We

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Any digital media asset created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence qualifies. A deepfake can be a digital image, video, or audio file.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Stolen social media accounts are also for sale: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, Instagram, Spotify, Twitch, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Soundcloud are all listed with prices that vary from 5USD to 80USD, the specific platform, the number of followers, and other variables. Social Media. Preventing Identity Theft.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In this article we will take a look at major cybersecurity risks and best practices how to reduce or avoid corporate data leakage. In March 2014, hackers used login information leaked by eBay employees to access sensitive user data of 145 million customers , putting these users at risk of identity theft, password theft and phishing risks.

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