Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Newbies get a taste of what phishing tools can do, pull off their first scam and wish for more, which is when they will be offered paid content. “To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash.” One-time password (OTP) bots.

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Phishing Scams Social Engineering Banking 91

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Once hijacked the channel, attackers either sell it to the highest bidder or employ it in cryptocurrency scam scheme. “Most of the observed malware was capable of stealing both user passwords and cookies. The hackers used fake collaboration opportunities (i.e.

Accountability 127

Accountability Malware Phishing Social Engineering 127

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. These methods are commonly employed in wire fraud and well-known bogus invoice scams. billion on organizations.

Artificial Intelligence 118

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 118

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

“Some of their goals include accessing sensitive information, user names and passwords, conducting denial of service attacks, spreading disinformation, and carrying out scams,”. Do not reveal personal or financial information in emails, and do not respond to email solicitations for this information.

Cyber Attacks 145

Cyber Attacks Computers and Electronics VPN Phishing 145

Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Password and info stealers. Apart from sign-in credentials, system information, and keystrokes, many info stealers are now adding hot wallet data to the list of information they search for and exfiltrate. Based on our threat data, we saw millions of cryptojacker encounters in the last year. Ransomware.

Cryptocurrency 93

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Malware Cybercrime 93

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. These findings imply that security teams should prepare for them in 2023. Overall, insider threats are becoming a more significant threat.

Social Engineering 84

Social Engineering Risk Technology Cybersecurity 84

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The commands include instructing the malware to download and execute files, start processes, shutdown and reboot the system, and steal cookies and local passwords.” See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information.

Malware 122

Malware Scams Social Engineering Phishing 122

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. None of these early threats went pro.

Ransomware 243

Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This forced security leaders and enterprise executives to assess their information security operations and overall cybersecurity posture to ensure their organizations were ready to face the challenges ahead. Use Best Password Practices. Data breaches and cybersecurity threats were at an all-time high this past year.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Digital transformation Ransomware Cyber Risk 52

Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language. Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need.

Social Engineering 40

Social Engineering Accountability Phishing Cybersecurity 40

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently observed threat actors using sophisticated social engineering tactics to target IT help desks in the health sector. The attackers aim at gaining initial access to target organizations.

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Social Engineering Healthcare Engineering Accountability 111

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. Stolen Credentials.

IoT 121

IoT Phishing Passwords Scams 121

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Most of these breaches occur with Amazon AWS Simple Cloud Storage (AWS S3) due to the widespread popularity of this system as well as the apparent simplicity of its configuration, which does not require any special knowledge of information security. Examples of scam messages on Twitter.

Identity Theft 101

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 101

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

Last week, the social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple. SecurityAffairs – hacking, social engineering).

Accountability 103

Accountability Social Engineering Media Hacking 103

Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. Okpoh, Benson and Kayode conducted romance scams and were involved in money laundering along with Uzuh. ” continues OFAC.

Social Engineering 78

Social Engineering Scams Small Business Banking 78

Lenny Zeltser

JULY 25, 2018

Scammers use a variety of social engineering tactics when persuading victims to follow the desired course of action. In reality, the sender probably obtained the data from one of the many breaches that provide swindlers with an almost unlimited supply of personal information. Personalized Porn Extortion Scam.

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Scams Social Engineering Passwords Big data 60

NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As we look forward into 2017 cyber attacks , information security teams have to think like hackers in order to stay ahead of the challenges to come. Social Engineering and Human Error Security experts can hardly say it enough: humans are your biggest cybersecurity vulnerability.

Cybersecurity 40

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

The chatbot can also help engineers learn how to write in different programming languages, master difficult software programs, and understand vulnerabilities and exploit code. Trains employees ChatGPT’s security applications aren’t limited to Information Security (IS) personnel.

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