NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In the spirit of this year’s theme, we created a parody of the Monster Mash to share social engineering prevention tips far and wide. In fact, 98 percent of cyber attacks involve some form of social engineering.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

“How do I keep my child safe on the internet?” And since this topic is so vast, let’s focus on one sector, Social Media. Did you know that 95% of youth today report using social media ? Forty percent of 8 to 12-year-olds use social media, reports the 2023 Social Media and Youth Mental Health – The U.S.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

MARCH 22, 2023

This article provides an introduction to covert entry assessments, and will address the many factors to consider when deciding on a pretext for physical social engineering. Deciding on a Pretext The technique of social engineering in-person is often referred to as physical social engineering or in-person social engineering.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2024

Installing it was a multi-year process that seems to have involved social engineering the lone unpaid engineer in charge of the utility. I simply don’t believe this was the only attempt to slip a backdoor into a critical piece of Internet software, either closed source or open source.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s a digital swindle as old as the internet itself, and yet, as the data tells us, the vast majority of security incidents are still rooted in the low-tech art of social engineering. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

Despite a very slim browser market share, Internet Explorer (IE) is still being exploited by exploit kits like the RIG exploit kit (EK). According to Malwarebytes’ Senior Director of Threat Intelligence Jérôme Segura: “RIG EK is probably one of the last exploit kits targeting Internet Explorer still around.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Safer Internet Day has been a landmark event on technology calendars for more than 18 years. Each year, Safer Internet Day focuses on a unique. The post Safer Internet Day: Exploring Reliability Online appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2022

In April of 2013, CNN introduced the world to Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, by publishing an article titled, Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet. The post Shodan: Still the Scariest Search Engine on the Internet? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2024

“CVE-2024-30051 is used to gain initial access into a target environment and requires the use of social engineering tactics via email, social media or instant messaging to convince a target to open a specially crafted document file,” Narang said.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“This is typically achieved through social engineering attacks with spear phishing to gain initial access to a host before searching for other vulnerable internal targets – just because your Exchange Server doesn’t have internet-facing authentication doesn’t mean it’s protected,” Breen said.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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.

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The State of Security

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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The Hacker News

MAY 4, 2023

Each of these APTs relied heavily on social engineering to trick people into clicking on malicious links, downloading malware or sharing personal information across the internet," Guy Rosen, chief information

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NopSec

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Email attachments are one of the best known social engineering attack vectors. These attacks are some of the oldest social engineering attacks. Spam and Chain letters, these types of attacks are not inherently dangerous, but can be used by social engineers for information gathering or other nuisance purposes.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2023

This could be via social engineering, spear phishing attacks, or exploitation of other services.” While not standard in all organizations, RAS servers typically have direct access from the Internet where most users and services are connected.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Based on Ransomlooker, a free Cybernews tool for monitoring the dark web and other hidden areas of the internet, 64% of organizations have already suffered from a ransomware attack. The MGM attacks were almost identical to the social engineering attacks on Caesars, which targeted a third-party IT help desk.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 9, 2023

Phishing, the theft of users' credentials or sensitive data using social engineering, has been a significant threat since the early days of the internet – and continues to plague organizations today, accounting for more than 30% of all known breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Safer Internet Day is a reminder for organizations to train and regularly refresh employee awareness around cybersecurity. With regular headlines of the latest cyber-attack occurring, organizations must focus on cybersecurity and using the internet safely. So why is it vital to train employees on cybersecurity and internet risks?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

” The perpetrators focus on social engineering new hires at the targeted company, and impersonate staff at the target company’s IT helpdesk. Limit the amount of personal information you post on social networking sites. The internet is a public resource; only post information you are comfortable with anyone seeing.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

On February 9, 2024, the Justice Department announced that an international operation had seized internet domains that were selling information-stealing malware. General signs that a RAT is active on your system may be: A slow computer and seemingly slow internet connection. Federal authorities in Boston seized www.warzone.ws

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

RELATED: 5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks ] Cybersecurity experts warn these tactics are becoming more advanced with the use of new technology. If you, or someone you know, has been impacted by cybercrime, report it to law enforcement via the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added to the many user-friendly digital tools scammers, sextortionists, and hackers can leverage in order to manipulate their victims.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids). The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

During the reporting period, key findings include: DDoS and ransomware rank the highest among the prime threats, with social engineering, data related threats, information manipulation, supply chain, and malware following.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the latest figures (PDF) released by the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the reported losses from BEC scams continue to dwarf other cybercrime loss categories, increasing to $1.86 billion in 2020. Image: FBI.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2021

Top three patterns in breaches were: social engineering, basic web application attacks, and system intrusion. Top three patterns in incidents were: denial of service, basic web application attacks, and social engineering. Even the median random organization with an internet presence has 17 internet-facing assets.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

Breen said while Microsoft’s patch notes indicate that an attacker must already have gained access to a vulnerable host in the network, this is typically achieved through social engineering attacks with spear phishing to gain initial access to a host before searching for other internal targets.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Most people with internet access can create deepfakes with little effort. Two other common cyber attacks that can be enhanced with the use of deepfakes include phishing and social engineering. Musical artist Jay-Z sued YouTube for allowing AI-generated music matching his voice to be uploaded to the site.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”.

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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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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is just one reason why we have an entire month devoted to internet awareness and staying safe online, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM). While usernames and passwords can be brute forced or gathered in social engineering attacks; MFA, when used properly, helps ensure that it really is YOU who is logging in.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. This disables peer-to-peer access, enabling internet-only access.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Internet of Things. IBM describes the internet of things (IoT) as the “the concept of connecting any device … to the Internet and to other connected devices.” Most if not, all social engineering attacks will attempt to trigger some emotion such as urgency, fear, greed, or curiosity. Rosa Rowles.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 7, 2024

They like to use social engineering, and vulnerabilities in internet-connected devices and services, rather than old-fashioned malware to infiltrate systems and networks. And, as you can read in our 2024 State of Malware report , cybercriminals continue to evolve their tactics.

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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. Social Tactics.

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