Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

The post GUEST ESSAY: Threat hunters adapt personas, leverage AI to gather intel in the Dark Web appeared first on Security Boulevard. The Deep & Dark Web is a mystery to most in the mainstream today: many have heard about it, but few understand just a fraction of what’s going on there. Related: ‘IABs’ spread ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

At its core, Vigilante is comprised of operative teams who’ve spent years deeply-embedded in the virtual threat space, nurturing their dark net personas and proactively gathering intelligence on behalf of specific clients. “We We operate exclusively outside of our clients’ networks,” Darrah told me. “We We don’t touch their networks.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This new attack dovetails with something I’ve been worried about for a while, something Latanya Sweeney has dubbed “persona bots.” Persona bots have histories, personalities, and communication styles. One persona bot can’t move public opinion, but what if there were thousands of them?

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Dark Reading

JULY 15, 2022

And some ways to up your game for identifying fabricated online profiles of people who don't exist.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

LockBitSupp, the individual(s) behind the persona representing the LockBit ransomware service on cybercrime forums such as Exploit and XSS, "has engaged with law enforcement," authorities said.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 12, 2021

Use cases can make life easier for IT departments managing connectivity and access for thousands of home offices.

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Dark Reading

MAY 3, 2023

The company has removed three APTs and six potentially criminal networks from its platforms who leveraged elaborate campaigns of fake personas and profiles to lure and compromise users.

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Dark Reading

JULY 28, 2023

The more artificial intelligence builds out our digital personas, the easier it will become for bad actors to target us with more convincing attacks.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 15, 2023

However, it can help threat actors create convincing personas to steal credentials in phishing attacks. [.] ChatGPT made a splash with its believable AI-generated responses.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 9, 2023

A top Iranian, state-sponsored threat is a spear-phishing campaign that uses a fake Twitter persona to target women interested in Iranian political affairs and human rights.

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An Iranian-aligned hacking group uses a new, elaborate phishing technique involving multiple personas and email accounts to lure targets into opening malicious documents. [.].

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The Hacker News

MAY 4, 2023

Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 12, 2021

It's past time to begin charting insider risk indicators that identify risky behavior and stop it in its tracks.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona "badbullzvenom."

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2023

Adopting personas and rubbing elbows with criminal hackers and fraudsters is a tried-and-true way to glean intel in the Dark Web.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Iranian hacker group TA453 has recently been using a technique that creates multiple personas to trick victims , deploying … (more…). Phishing attacks are nothing new, but scammers are getting savvier with their tactics. Related: The threat of ‘business logic’ hacks.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On September 20, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reached a settlement agreement in which MSSB paid a $35 million USD penalty for the improper disposal of devices containing MSSB customer persona identifying information (PII). To read this article in full, please click here

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For example, Forter has amassed a Persona Graph that includes more than 1 billion online personas. When retailers interact with a persona for the first time, Forter can help determine whether or not they have seen that persona elsewhere across its global network. Fraudsters aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

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The Hacker News

JULY 16, 2021

and Europe using fake online personas on its platform. Facebook on Thursday disclosed it dismantled a "sophisticated" online cyber espionage campaign conducted by Iranian hackers targeting about 200 military personnel and companies in the defense and aerospace sectors in the U.S.,

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 2, 2022

This network used fake accounts and operated fictitious personas and brands across the internet — including on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Odnoklassniki and VK — to appear more authentic in an apparent attempt to withstand scrutiny by platforms and researchers.”

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Digital Guardian

JANUARY 29, 2021

Linux bugs, hacker personas, and the Emotet botnet disrupted - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

The attacker has made a lot of effort to create all these fake personas, only to deliver very obvious malware," researchers from security firm VulnCheck, who found the rogue repositories, said in a report.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 10, 2021

Sales reps usually assume two personas in their dealings – that of a vendor or a trusted advisor. We all want the various interactions we have in life to have a positive and lasting impression. More so, if you are a sales rep. How do you know which role you are playing? The easiest way […]. appeared first on The SiteLock Blog.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2021

Las limitadas interacciones intrapersonales han obligado a las personas a depender de las aplicaciones para sus necesidades cotidianas. Mejorar el rendimiento digital se ha convertido en una de las principales prioridades de las organizaciones. Por ello, una buena experiencia digital ….

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Patrick Harr, CEO at SlashNext, said that generative AI is already being used to modify video and voice content to support scammers' fake personas. "With more advanced AI capabilities in the hands of cybercriminals, the threat is that romance scams can be automated at scale," said Bud Broomhead, CEO at Viakoo.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 5, 2023

It determines whether a person is actually hiding behind the persona he presents. A person’s most valuable and often utilised asset is their identity. Identity verification is used to demonstrate that the person’s identity matches what they say it is. There are several systems and approaches for confirming identity.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 10, 2023

Hackers can use this technology to create convincing fake personas that they can use to trick their targets into divulging sensitive information. AI impersonation technology is a new and concerning cyber threat that uses machine learning algorithms to impersonate people online.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Desde abordar un avión hasta comprar una casa, compartimos nuestras credenciales de identidad, como números de seguro social, con varias personas y compañías. En una encuesta del año pasado se identificó que las compañías tienen en su poder el 83% ….

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Organizations need the ability to collect threat information from across their IT infrastructure so that they can see what’s going on in their environments and correlate the intelligence across devices, personas, application suites, and the cloud so that it’s actionable.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 25, 2017

iPhone chosen over a Android handset to be turned into "dual-persona" device that can be used to discuss confidential matters.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

Desde el 2020, con las personas trabajando desde casa y las aplicaciones de productividad y trabajo a tope, las ciberamenazas tomaron un rol protagónico. Fueron muchos los ataques de ransomware , phishing y otras modalidades que afectaron a millones de ….

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Schneier on Security

JULY 10, 2020

This is where Cosmic Lynx adds a second persona to give the process an air of legitimacy, typically impersonating a real lawyer from a well-regarded law firm in the United Kingdom. The group will find a company that is about to complete an acquisition and contact one of its top executives posing as the CEO of the organization being bought.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 25, 2018

No matter how much mystique a hacker persona has, the individual or group behind it inevitably makes operations security errors sometimes.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

A medida que obligó a las personas a permanecer en sus hogares, las empresas se apresuraron a facilitar el trabajo remoto y mantener la continuidad del …. La pandemia de COVID-19 transformó por completo la forma en que funcionan las organizaciones.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. The Impersonator. Today’s cybercriminals are masters at exploiting basic human trust.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 16, 2021

In running its highly targeted campaign, Tortoiseshell deployed sophisticated fake online personas to contact its targets, build trust and trick them into clicking on malicious links. These fictitious personas had profiles across multiple social media platforms to make them appear more credible.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 21, 2020

A fictitious industrial company with phony employees personas, website, and PLCs sitting on a simulated factory network fooled malicious hackers - and raised alarms for at least one white-hat researcher who stumbled upon it.

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