Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Internet scams are everywhere, inflicting billions of dollars in reported losses from victims each year. Anyone can fall for online scams, as tactics are tailored to the interests of all age groups. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most common scams: Coronavirus-related scams. IRS and Bank-related scams.

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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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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the components of a crypto scam, including investors, designers, developers, and marketers, as well as a few interesting trends that characterize this black market. In these sections, entire teams are put together to conduct cryptocurrency scams.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In one case, researchers found a file titled “Amazon Gift Tool.exe” that was being marketed on a publicly available file repository site as a free Amazon gift card generator. 3 gift card scams to watch out for this Black Friday appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs. Stay safe, everyone! The post Please don’t buy this!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

In some ways, the attacks from LAPSUS$ recall the July 2020 intrusion at Twitter , wherein the accounts for Apple, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Uber and others were made to tweet messages inviting the world to participate in a cryptocurrency scam that promised to double any amount sent to specific wallets. ” SMASH & GRAB.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The fraudster commences the social engineering by irritating the targeted victim, and then follows up with an an offer to alleviate the annoyance. The second part of the attack is the scam. Audian Paxson is Director of Technical Product Marketing at Ironscales , an Atlanta-based email security company.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For example, both the COVID-19 pandemic and 2008 financial crisis created increased fraud and financial scams targeting both businesses and consumers. Here are a few predictions and recommendations to help them get started: Bad actors will take advantage of growing economic fears with new scams.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

As all these marketplaces are exit scammed frequently, it can be assumed that the threat actor had decided to start a Telegram Channel to offer his services seamlessly, without the issues of Dark Web marketplace exit scams." Enterprises should continue to do what they should already be doing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? How to spot their scam and protect yourself. OnePercent Group attacks. ” Conclusion.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Black Friday, and the follow-up, Cyber Monday, provides the perfect platform for criminals to trap unwary shoppers with scams disguised as unbeatable offers. Cybercriminals using social engineering and psychological pressure for their scams are profiteering from the lockdowns. Sign up here.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Expert Chris Hadnagy advises us, “Unless you’re in the security business or law enforcement, you won’t be familiar with every new scam that pops up. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. Cybersecurity First at Home.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 20, 2022

So, let’s cut through the marketing fluff and understand what Zero Trust is – and, even before that that, what Zero Trust Is not. And, in many (if not most cases), the term is being misused – even by the very vendors who claim to be the ones delivering zero trust to the world. Zero Trust is not something that you can achieve overnight.

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SC Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. “B” is obviously the correct choice, but not all companies succeed in motivating their workers to learn the ins and outs of phishing, social engineering and other cyber threats.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com) com) targeting AT&T employees.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Zscaler ThreatLabz publishes this report year after year to help organizations recognize the social engineering tactics and sophisticated coding used in phishing attacks to prevent costly data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

A little more than a week later, cybersecurity firm Armorblox outlined an account takeover attack that leveraged malicious phishing and social engineering. In Armobox’s research, hackers used email with a socially engineered payload. Social Engineering Not Going Away. Spoofed Zoom email.

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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. According to Iyer, it’s relatively easy and cheap for cybercriminals set up this kind of scam. “

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2022

It involved 76 countries taking social engineers and telecommunications fraudsters to task, with multiple wins for those involved. Interpol also mentions 8 suspects arrested in Singapore for “Ponzi-like” job scams. In the example given, victims were lured with the promise of high-paying online marketing jobs.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. Financial phishing In 2023, online fraudsters continued to lure users to phishing and scam pages that mimicked the websites of popular brands and financial organizations. Money is what always attracts cybercriminals.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Last year, we witnessed the fast-evolving nature of social engineering attacks, and this evolution poses greater challenges for detection and defense.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And now another issue for the agricultute sector: Sophisticated scams involving fake tractors and sale portals have cost certain businesses $1.2 As with so many internet scams, it begins with fake online adverts. Making an offer sound better than it really is works where most scams are concerned. million in the space of a month.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I You could lose your data.'.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2020

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. If PlugWalkJoe was in fact pivotal to this Twitter compromise, it’s perhaps fitting that he was identified in part via social engineering.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Although the main types of threats (phishing, scams, malware, etc.) Sony’s PlayStation Plus is starting to compete with Microsoft’s subscription service, GamePass, and offers to play subscription games not only on consoles, but also on the PC, to increase the market share. The consumer threat landscape constantly changes.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market their cybercriminal wares and services. He said while the Coronavirus has forced reshipping operators to make painful shifts in several parts of their business, the overall market for available mules has never looked brighter.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Digital activities provide a fuller picture of your preferences and personality and are often used by companies for targeted marketing or to help improve user experience. Social media activity: likes, shares, comments and posts. Awareness of Phishing Scams. ID numbers. Passport details. Digital Activities. Purchase history.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

While voice fraud isn’t new, this is the first reported example of an audio deepfake scam, and although some doubt the veracity of this story , it highlights the potentially massive threat that deepfakes pose to businesses. Faced with more advanced scams, employees will find it even more difficult to tell what’s real from what’s fake.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 26, 2023

Many of today's most dangerous threats are delivered through social engineering, i.e., by tricking users into giving up their data, or downloading malware from an infected email attachment. Unsolicited phone calls and websites that do this are known as tech support scams. Disable web push notif ications.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

What’s more, Hodson observed, the email addresses and phone numbers in the leak can easily be leveraged for email or phone scams, spam campaigns, and identity theft. ” If so, there’s still a market for that information. As reports have stated, this is likely scraped instead of a breach.” “Bottom line? .

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

Not only some of the most visible accounts got hacked but the hack may have permanently damaged trustworthiness of social media. Kumar Jack Dorsey confirmed that social engineering was used to compromise employees. Some appear to be Ponzi scam others appear to ask for donations.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. “Without the buyers and the resellers, there is no incentive to hack into all these social media and gaming companies.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

” According to ID.me, a major driver of phony jobless claims comes from social engineering, where people have given away personal data in response to romance or sweepstakes scams, or after applying for what they thought was a legitimate work-from-home job. The amount of fraud we are fighting is truly staggering.”

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SC Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

A recently discovered phishing scam that convincingly impersonates the Microsoft Windows logo with an HTML table serves as a new reminder of how social engineers can abuse various elements in emails to fool both human recipients and certain security solutions. A Microsoft building in Europe. efes, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

This post is about how we did it Finally, not shown in the piece, we spent time helping the targets understand how we found the data and showing them how to secure their online presence Bank scams and how to avoid them, with Alexis Conran We were asked to help make a TV show about the information that people share online being abused by scammers.

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