The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Phishing is one of the most common social engineering tactics cybercriminals use to target their victims. Cybersecurity experts are discussing a new trend in the cybercrime community called phishing-as-a-service. Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS). Related: Utilizing humans as security sensors. Rising popularity.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

March Madness is here, and while fans are busy filling out brackets and making last-minute bets, cybercriminals are running their own full-court presstargeting unsuspecting fans with phishing scams, fake betting apps, and credential-harvesting schemes. This scenario follows the common phishing tactics: strike at personal interest.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2023

North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky has been linked to a social engineering campaign aimed at experts in North Korean affairs. SentinelLabs researchers uncovered a social engineering campaign by the North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky that is targeting experts in North Korean affairs. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Critically, the malicious extension only requires read/write capabilities present in the majority of browser extensions on the Chrome Store, including common productivity tools like Grammarly, Calendly and Loom, desensitizing users from granting these permissions.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team posted an article stating that they have been tracking a widespread credential phishing campaign using open redirector links. By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing scam and steal user credentials. Credential phishing.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The annual MDR analyst report presents insights based on the analysis of incidents detected by Kaspersky’s SOC team. User Execution and Phishing remain top threats. User Execution and Phishing techniques ranked again in the top three threats, with nearly 5% of high-severity incidents involving successful social engineering.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This group of English-speaking threat actors are known for launching sophisticated campaigns that can bypass weak MFA implementations, leveraging tactics such as SIM swapping, adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques, and social engineering to gain unauthorized access to organizations’ sensitive data.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

Voicemail-themed phishing campaigns continue to be a successful social engineering theme used by this threat actor to lure victims in opening a malicious attachment. A CAPTCHA is used by the threat actor to guard the final credential phishing page from automated URL analysis algorithms. Key points. Email analysis.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. PayPal phishing sites are a dime a dozen due to the number of people and companies using it as another form of payment method. This was evident after Akamai found an attacker had planted a phishing kit on its WordPress honeypot.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers reported Tuesday that they found two email phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 mailboxes at FedEx and DHL Express that look to extract a user’s work email account. In the FedEx attack, the final phishing page spoofs an Office 365 portal packed with Microsoft branding. Brand impersonation.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

In our most recent Remote Sessions webcast, Roger Grimes, computer security expert and Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4, gave a deep dive on phishing and how to properly mitigate and prevent phishing attacks. What is phishing? Also known as spamming, phishing is typically done through email, SMS, and phone attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

As AI technology advances, attackers are shifting their focus from technical exploits to human emotions using deeply personal and well-orchestrated social engineering tactics. Uprotected targets Companies admit they are largely unprepared for this dangerous evolution.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Hence, cybercriminals have little motivation to invest heavily into phishing campaigns, and so, techniques used in email attacks on hot wallets are hardly ever original or complex. Sample phishing email that targets Coinbase users After the user clicks the link, they are redirected to a page where they are asked to enter their seed phrase.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Key findings Phishing Banks were the most popular lure in 2024, accounting for 42.58% of financial phishing attempts. Amazon Online Shopping was mimicked by 33.19% of all phishing and scam pages targeting online store users in 2024. Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Phishing scammers love well known brand names, because people trust them, and their email designs are easy to rip off. Earlier this year, DocuSign specifically warned about phishing campaigns using its brand. We’ve included some examples of DocuSign phishing campaigns below. Real DocuSign emails used for phishing.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

Items presented here are typically curated with the end user and small groups (such as families and small/micro businesses) in mind. Successful exploitation requires social engineering users into manipulating a specially crafted file. These probably don't affect most users reading this. CVE-2025-21308.

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NetSpi Executives

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Phishing remains one of the most successful ways that adversaries gain access to systems. In fact, over 48 percent of emails sent in 2022 were spam, and Google blocks approximately 100 million phishing emails every day. Every company deserves top quality defense, regardless of the budget or available bandwidth.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published updated recommendations for phishing simulations in security awareness training programs. The thinking obviously being that letting users in on the phishing simulation game will heighten suspicion of their inbox and skew baseline results.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Cofense researchers spotted a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States to infect them with the Amadey malware. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States attempting to infect them with a new piece of malware named Amadey. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear. I agree wholeheartedly with Levin on this, as I imagine most folks would. Leaders of the top hacking collectives are astute and disciplined.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Phishing and Social Engineering: These tactics manipulate individuals to disclose sensitive information. Economic Espionage and Intellectual Property Theft As economies become increasingly knowledge-driven, economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft present growing threats to national security.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Other cybercrimes that specifically target accounts are spear phishing, social engineering attacks, and password sprays —basic password attack tactics that nation-states carry out against target companies and governments. For example, from January to December 2021, Microsoft detected a jaw-dropping 25.6

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 20, 2018

To achieve this the adversary might use social engineering techniques such as phishing and vishing and/or tools such as Man-in-the-Browser malware. Applied to 2FA, the user would no longer need to open and read the SMS from which the code has already been conveniently extracted and presented.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. 2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022. With the rise in social media, criminals have more platforms with which to target potential phishing victims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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Security Through Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

However, emotional triggers in social engineering attacks exploit a wide range of emotions – such as fear, greed, sympathy, curiosity, and authority. Let’s consider some of the most common emotional triggers in social engineering attacks. Fear Fear is one of the most powerful tools in social engineering.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Google and researchers at Stanford University have released an in-depth study analysing 5 months of phishing / malware mails sent globally. “Who is targeted by email-based phishing and malware? The results were then fed into a presentation at the Internet Measurement Conference. Brush up on your phishing knowledge.

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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. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust. Phishing attacks.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2022

People want to be helpful, and this slice of social engineering takes full advantage of this. The scammer presents the “offer” as a way to help a fellow Steam enthusiast out, or tie it to fictional rewards if the message recipient takes part. What’s the impact from being phished in this manner? How does it work?

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Threat actors have devised a new trick to disable macro security warning that leverage non-malicious docs in phishing attacks. Most of the phishing attacks leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

Between checking scores, streaming games, participating in office pools, and inevitably some placing of bets, users will be presenting an abundance of new openings for threat actors to attack. The emotional investment and spike in online activity create a perfect storm that organizations need to protect against."

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Phishing attacks have steadily been on the rise, and according to Proofpoint's 2021 State of the Phish Report , over half of all participants reported receiving a successful phishing attack in 2020. Criminals use departmental reputation to trick users into trusting phishing lures.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The scam is a so-called “triple threat” phish, in that it gives the scammer three different ways to potentially collect some ill gotten gains from potential victims. For this phish attempt, the scammers make use of legitimate services to make it all look a bit more convincing. A genuine (but bogus) money request.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

The first involves spear phishing attacks to gain access to that second authentication factor, which can be made much more convincing once the attackers have access to specific details about the customer’s account — such as recent transactions or account numbers (even partial account numbers). .

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