Identity IQ

MAY 30, 2023

How Do You Know if Your Information Is On the Dark Web? It’s where illegal activities, like buying and selling drugs, weapons, and stolen personal information, take place. If you’re not familiar with the dark web, you might be wondering what it is, how information gets there, and what happens if your data is involved.

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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. Vishing attackers typically use two methods to deceive their victims.

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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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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. Past When the use of passwords began, they were a “good enough” method to control user access to digital systems.

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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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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. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. Twilio disclosed in Aug. According to an Aug.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cybercriminals can profit by stealing sensitive information and selling it on the dark web to other criminals. They could leak classified information to damage the reputation of target organizations or just prove their point to the public. Financial Gain One of the primary motivations for hackers is financial gain.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

Grimes defines phishing as the process of maliciously masquerading as a trusted entity to acquire unauthorized information or to create an action that conflicts with the best interests of the victim or their company. Social engineering has its tells, though. What is phishing? Malware and attackers can "break in" in various ways.

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Hacker's King

MAY 20, 2023

However, if hackers gain access to these tokens through social engineering, phishing attacks, or other means, they can bypass 2FA by directly entering the codes, granting them unauthorized access. Social Engineering: Guarding Against Manipulation Social engineering remains a potent tool in hackers’ arsenal.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

These range from simple to sophisticated scams to convince you they are genuine, in hopes that you feel comfortable sharing personal or financial information whether on the phone, via email, or text. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords. Think before you click.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With the unique challenges and responsibilities they face, safeguarding military members’ personal information is paramount. Military personnel are at an increased risk of identity theft due to their exposure to classified information, frequent travel, and frequent moves. Why Is Military Identity Theft Protection Important?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Avoid sharing sensitive information on public Wi-Fi networks and use a virtual private network (VPN) when connecting to public networks. Stay vigilant, stay informed, and stay secure.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

This time, the author of the forum post is purportedly selling information gathered from 600 million LinkedIn profiles. Samples from the archive shared by the author include full names, email addresses, links to the users’ social media accounts, and other data points that users had publicly listed on their LinkedIn profiles.

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Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

Each day people post a plethora of information to social media platforms, giving bad actors plenty of opportunity to steal personal data. PII 101 Criminals looking to steal identities specifically target personally identifiable information (PII). Once a criminal has this information, they can use it in various ways.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The customers were informed by a breach notification which was posted online. 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.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2022

Things become even worse when social engineering combines with publicly available data to make it even more convincing. Victims of the most recent virtual kidnap attempt likely had some of their information used against them in the call. Have a “password” that family members can use to confirm a loved one is really in trouble.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

ID theft is a lucrative line of work and criminals are relentless in their pursuit of personal information. Also, don’t carry around personal information. Unless you need your card or Social Security number, there’s no need to keep them in your wallet. 2: Use Strong Passwords. 3: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).

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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. Try a password manager. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 7, 2022

James stated that the attack details came to her office through an anonymous source and added in her statement that the companies whose users were compromised were informed about the threat in December last year. Now the big question, how do hackers steal passwords?

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Prevent Compromised Credentials IdentityIQ Protecting your personal information and online identity is crucial, especially as cyber threats continue to gain traction. Credential Stuffing : Attackers use leaked usernames and passwords from one website to attempt unauthorized access on other platforms.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Prevent Compromised Credentials IdentityIQ Protecting your personal information and online identity is crucial, especially as cyber threats continue to gain traction. Credential Stuffing : Attackers use leaked usernames and passwords from one website to attempt unauthorized access on other platforms.

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Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

A data breach, whether orchestrated by cybercriminals, facilitated by human error, or from technical glitches, represents a critical threat to the security of sensitive information. A data breach is an incident where sensitive, confidential, or protected information is disclosed and accessed without authorization.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2023

In today's interconnected world, mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives, enabling seamless communication, productivity, and access to sensitive information. These types of attacks often depend on social engineering to trick users into clicking malicious links or downloading malware.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

Holden said it’s not uncommon for thieves in these communities to resell access to bank account balance and transaction information to other crooks who specialize in cashing out such information. “This is just more empirical data around the fact that passwords just need to go away,” Knight said.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

In reality, cybercriminals had for months lured employees searching for their payroll system with a mirror-image-like website that reportedly tricked hundreds of employees into providing their usernames and passwords. The bad actors then used that information to sign in to the real system and reroute employees’ paychecks."

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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. And that’s not a comprehensive list. Security tips.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

In fact, the name and number belonged to escrow.com’s general manager, who played along for more than an hour talking to the attacker while recording the call and coaxing information out of him. The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2023

The NBA sent out emails to a number of its followers noting that while names and email addresses have been compromised, no other personally identifiable information was breached. In January of 2023, Mailchimp fell victim for the second time in a year to a social engineering attack. Change your password.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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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.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. DoorDash mentions that drivers are trained to look out for scams and attacks, but this one managed to sneak in under the radar. Use a password manager.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Organizations must have a robust password policy. One way to help enforce such a policy is by providing employees with a password manager for easy password generation and storage. Near the holiday season of 2013, hackers exposed the credit and debit card information of over 110 million Target customers.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The attackers thus gained remote access to the CRM systems running on the store computers – and a foothold to access customers’ wireless phone numbers and associated account information. Having long passwords and a password manager can also add additional layers of security and protect you as a customer.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Password reuse is tempting, because it's impossible to remember a different password for each online account. That's why people are encouraged to use tools like password managers, as they make it easy to generate and remember all your passwords. Some of the information potentially accessed includes: Name.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

The four leaked files contain information about the users whose data has been allegedly scraped by the threat actor, including their full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and more. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. What was leaked? Next steps.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

There doesn’t seem to be any additional information about what “appropriately configured” means yet. Questions how this will work aside, Google continues to keep plugging away at the eternally relevant password problem. Their password import feature allows people to save passwords as a CSV file , then port it into Chrome.

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