Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. Of course, OOO instructions serve an important business communications function, and a strong strong social media profile is a great way to network with your peers and brand yourself.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Deepfakes are a type of AI-generated media that can take the form of videos, images, text, sounds, and more where the aim is to create an original form of media. While AI and machine learning technology have advanced in capabilities, its sudden growth may be more due to its affordability and accessibility. So what are Deepfakes?”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. Related: Make it costly for cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Technological Tactics.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. The phishers will explain that they’re calling from the employer’s IT department to help troubleshoot issues with the company’s virtual private networking (VPN) technology.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, COVID-19, Zoom meetings, vaccination recommendations and travel warnings all provide ample and unique precedent for social engineering attacks. This could be those without antivirus protection, young internet users or, unfortunately, your elderly loved ones. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. 9, 2024, U.S. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

A common misconception among internet users is that basic cyber hygiene is enough to protect against malicious threats. Bitdefender’s web-filtering technology makes sure you don’t land on a malicious website and risk that infects your devices with malware. This couldn’t be more wrong. Say no to phishing and fraud attempts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Trustwave developed Social Mapper an Open Source Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different social networks. The tool was developed to gather intelligence from social networks during penetration tests and are aimed at facilitating social engineering attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 16, 2021

Privacy for shared security including social media, smart devices, applications and IoT. Social-Engineer Podcast – Security Through Education. Offering prescriptive advice to everyday internet users in a less technical and more accessible manner. Exploring the intersection of security, technology, and society.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2024

The funding will be used for core research and development to build new AI technology and products to protect against generative AI threats, such as deepfake social engineering and autonomous fraud. Vu “Safeguarding against generative AI threats is essential for the future of the internet,” said Vu.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft. We’ve arrived at a critical juncture: to enable the full potential of the Internet of Everything, attack surface expansion must be slowed and ultimately reversed. Erin: So, let’s get started. What drew you to this field?

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, said LinkedIn has become one of the most impersonated brands when it comes to phishing, and having access to such a treasure trove of information can help facilitate convincing phishing and social engineering attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. These attacks aren’t really driven by technology, they’re more human-driven attacks.” The attackers aren’t really relying too much on technology. It’s simple fraud.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. It’s already happening.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Social media and the metaverse. New social media will bring more privacy risks. We would like to believe that the near future will see a new revolutionary phenomenon in the world of social networks. Data from mental health apps will be used in accurately targeted social engineering attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 7, 2023

The photos or videos are then publicly circulated on social media or pornographic websites, for the purpose of harassing victims or sextortion schemes. All of that social engineering, the possibility of the victim not falling for it and sending revealing images is completely done away with. That's how it usually works.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Email spoofing is a common tactic hackers use in phishing and social engineering attacks. Hackers frequently use email spoofing in tandem with other social engineering techniques to impersonate an official source, whether it’s a colleague, partner, or competitor.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Defending our technology against cyber threats is an increasingly important issue, and these grants will allow our cities and towns to train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.” “As As a former mayor, I know that cyber attacks are a constant threat to municipalities.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. Truth be told, AOL made the Internet, the Internet.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

5G is among the technologies that researchers predict will have a big impact on the security landscape in the next decade. The Project assumes that consumers will access information with technologies designed for more and more immediacy, and less and less effort. AI could impact more than just social engineering.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

UK’s NCSC explains in a blog that an LLM is an algorithm trained on a large amount of text-based data, typically scraped from the open internet. While most people use them for fun or to make their lives easier, cybercriminals may use the technology to become more informed, efficient, or convincing. I want to destroy whatever I want.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. You notice some messages or posts on your Social Media channels that you don’t remember posting. Use a reputed Internet Service Provider (ISP).

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Internet scams are everywhere, inflicting billions of dollars in reported losses from victims each year. Spoofing technology has allowed scammers to impersonate government agencies and exploit government-issued stimulus payments easily. Anyone can fall for online scams, as tactics are tailored to the interests of all age groups.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The advancing pace of technology (39 percent) also featured, as effects from the pandemic have complicated organizations’ ability to protect themselves from cyber threats. This type of fraud occurs when a criminal uses stolen card details to buy something on the Internet, over the phone or via mail order.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Social media activity: likes, shares, comments and posts. When you share your thoughts and life events on social media, it allows you to connect with family and friends. Credit monitoring involves using technology to keep close track of your credit report and credit activity. They include: Search queries.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Answer: The decision to pursue a career in cybersecurity came easy to me, as I was tenured as a technology and telecommunications professional for 15 years. Once technology came to the front door of the consumer and into consumer homes, there was a renewed focus on identifying threats and fixing them.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Today’s columnist, Perry Carpenter of KnowBe4, writes that with the FBI reporting an increase of 300,000 in internet crime complaints in 2020, SOAR tools can strike a nice balance between automation and human analysis. Bear in mind that SOAR requires a mix of technologies and tools that deliver the capabilities the infosec team requires.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

What’s worse, the health systems employing unsecured PACS have also failed to close other critical vulnerabilities, according to data from Dirk Schrader, global vice president at New Net Technologies (NNT). The DICOM standard is more than 30 years old and easily exploitable when left exposed to the internet. What’s going on here?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2023

Executives also face risks from social media, where they are more visible and accessible than ever before. Like the general public, executives can avoid oversharing personal information on social media. This can be great for brand-building and engagement. Even if they could, it’s a Sisyphean task.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit. During our research we collected dozens of social media pages impersonating assets belonging to the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The technology also predicts potential attacks and automatically responds to threats by identifying specific trends and cycles. Even better, security tools like behavioral analytics can spot attacks simply by noticing anomalous activity, important technology for catching zero-day threats and adversarial attacks.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Brian Levine is senior director of product security at Axway, a global security engineering organization delivering training, tools, processes and DevSecOps practices for secure applications and cloud services to the enterprise market. John Bruggeman is chief technology officer at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.

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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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