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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. Why does it matter?

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Zanubis in motion: Tracing the active evolution of the Android banking malware

SecureList

The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates. Upon startup, the malware would collect key information from the infected device.

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APT trends report Q3 2024

SecureList

Most of the infections were still at financial institutions in Vietnam, with one victim active in the manufacturing industry. For example, new persistence mechanisms were detected and we found that the loading mechanism of the final payload, the P8 beacon, also changed. In terms of victimology, there was little change.

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Top Cyber Attacker Techniques, August–October 2024

Digital Shadows

The US, manufacturing sector, and professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS) sector are primary targets amidst an overall increase in ransomware attacks. This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks.

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FBI Warning: AI-Driven Impersonation Attacks Target U.S. Officials

SecureWorld News

Report suspicious activity: Enco urage reporting of any suspicious communications to appropriate security teams and to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The FBI's IC3 released its 2024 Internet Crime Report earlier this month, announcing a record-breaking year in cybercrime. Leighton added.

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. Talk more soon.

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier. Prevent intrusions.