Security Boulevard

JANUARY 14, 2025

See how multi-channel scams target new hires through fake texts and emails, and learn practical steps to protect your organization from persistent social engineering attacks. The post ScrapedIn: How Bots Turn Social Media into Advanced Social Engineering appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. The feds then obtained records from Virgin Media, which showed the address was leased for several months to Tyler Buchanan , a 22-year-old from Dundee, Scotland.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 24, 2022

An online cybersecurity event with 2,500 people already logged in had to be cancelled after suspected cybercriminals launched a social engineering attack in the event’s chat window.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2025

Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar The post Asian Scam Farms: Industrial Scale, Warns UN Report appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 20, 2023

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. Read on to learn how to recognize social engineering attacks, their consequences, and tactics to avoid falling for them.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM), we define social engineering as “any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interest.” If you Google “social engineering,” you will get a very different and more negative definition. billion to phone scams.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect. Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 10, 2025

According to new research conducted by Malwarebytes, 44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, while 78% encounter scams at least weekly. As Malwarebytes learned, 25% of scam victims were harassed or blackmailed, 19% had private info exposed, and 15% permanently lost their money. You can read the full report below.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

This month, take advantage of all that NCPW offers, including access to free tools and information that can help you identify and prevent online scams, fraud, and identity theft. Millions of customers were put at risk when their social security numbers, phone numbers, and other sensitive personal information were leaked.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. Think you’re too smart to fall for one? A CLOSE CALL.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media. Similar scams were reported globally. ” concludes the report.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2025

The scam, which combined a phone call and a cleverly disguised email, highlights just how advanced phishing methods are becoming, even fooling seasoned tech leaders. Mosseri shared his experience in a post on Threads , the social media platform owned by Meta. Experienced a sophisticated phishing attack yesterday, he wrote.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. Let’s see what lessons we can learn from scam artists to better protect ourselves.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. 1 How do you define social engineering?

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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. Zack Allen is director of threat intelligence for ZeroFOX , a Baltimore-based company that helps customers detect and respond to risks found on social media and other digital channels.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media. Similar scams were reported globally. ” concludes the report.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Deepfakes involve AI-generated synthetic media that convincingly mimics real individuals' voices and faces. Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 4, 2022

This is the case in this chocolate-themed scam. Cadbury UK has issued a warning to its 315,000 followers on Twitter about a scam making the rounds on WhatsApp and other social media sites like Facebook. We’ve been made aware of circulating posts on social media claiming to offer consumers a free Easter Chocolate basket.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media. The flash scam netted the perpetrators more than $100,000 in the ensuing hours. The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts. ADVANCED PERSISTENT TEENAGERS.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These agents could even hold people for ransom by matching stolen data online with publicly known email addresses or social media accounts, composing messages and holding entire conversations with victims who believe a human hacker out there has access to their Social Security Number, physical address, credit card info, and more.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

Cryptocurrency scammers love social media—especially Meta’s platforms. Hundreds of millions of dollars were scammed from U.S. The post Fake Cash Scams Thrive on Facebook and Insta—FTC appeared first on Security Boulevard. consumers in 2021.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2025

I realize that may sound like something trivial to steer clear from, but apparently its not because the social engineering behind it is pretty sophisticated. But mshta will fetch the malicious media file from the specified domain and run it. The name of the media file may look perfectly fine.

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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. ALWAYS IN DISCORD. The account “@shinji,” a.k.a.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2024

The San Francisco Chronicle tells a story about a family that almost got scammed when they heard their son’s voice telling them he’d been in a car accident and hurt a pregnant woman. The FBI says it has received more than 195 complaints about this type of scam that it refers to as “grandparent scams.”

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, I don't fall for the scams because I look for the warning signs: a sense of urgency, fear of missing out, and strange URLs that look nothing like any parcel delivery service I know of. Urgency is a core tenet of social engineering as it encourages people to act without properly thinking it though.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We call what these criminals do “romance scams.” What exactly are romance scams? Leveraging Affection and Trust The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states that “romance scams occur when a criminal adopts a fake online identity to gain a victim’s affection and trust.” If it’s a scam, though, the request will come.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 22, 2022

In her post , she broke down the scam into four phases, reflecting the scammers' intent in each stage: Dismay, Isolate, Overwhelm, and Intimidate. She then realized she was about to be scammed. If this scam is not spotlighted and people are not educated, many more will continue to fall for this campaign.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 12, 2025

Category Awareness, Social Enginering Risk Level Phishing emails are getting harder to detect. Todays phishing scams are sophisticated, tailored for you, and often indistinguishable from real communications. These tactics, called spear phishing , make it incredibly hard for even tech-savvy users to spot a scam.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the digital age, the quest for love has moved online, but so have the fraudsters, with romance scams reaching record highs. These scams don’t just harm individuals financially and emotionally; they can also pose significant risks to businesses.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As artificial intelligence continues advancing at a rapid pace, criminals are increasingly using AI capabilities to carry out sophisticated scams and attacks. Technologies that synthesize realistic fake media, known as deepfakes, are among the newest tools being deployed to enable fraud.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

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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 scams rely on the failure of a subordinate employee to recognize a cleverly spoofed email directive. The total stolen: $2.3 The FBI is investigating. No arrests have been made.

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