Security Through Education

APRIL 19, 2023

Social engineering and collections may seem like two vastly different professions. Before my work as a Human Risk Analyst for Social-Engineer , I had previously worked in this field of collections. This involved talking to people on the phone and collecting past due payments on retail credit cards.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2023

Latitude offers ‘buy now-pay later’ facility to a number of Australian retailers such as David Jones and Harvey Norman has assured that it will post more details as soon as the investigation gets over.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 31, 2023

Phishing attacks, malicious links and social engineering are just a few of the tricks used by cybercriminals to obtain credentials and other valuable information. Cybercriminals can use deep fake technology to impersonate someone you may know or trust to make a social engineering scam even more believable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

The TA547 group sent emails to the victims impersonating the German retail company Metro, purportedly related to invoices. Like LLM-generated social engineering lures, threat actors may incorporate these resources into an overall campaign.” ” concludes the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

And usually details such as these are accessed by cyber criminals to launch social engineering driven attacks in the future. Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that the leaked data was only related to customers who have registered as members of the retail brand and was only limited to Korean customers.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 19, 2021

Notorious FIN7 gang stole payment card details from retailers around the world Cybercrime gang posed as penetration testing firm to recruit hackers. A key member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang – which is said to have caused over one billion dollars worth of damage around the world – has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Palo Alto’s Unit 42 has investigated several incidents linked to the Luna Moth group callback phishing extortion campaign targeting businesses in multiple sectors, including legal and retail. Unit 42 stated that the campaign has cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars and is expanding in scope.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. The lockdowns have made on-demand retail and mCommerce a permanent fixture among Australian users who share their transaction details without any qualms. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

33-year-old Andrii Kolpakov worked for the FIN7 gang (also sometimes known as Carbanak, Navigator Group, or Anunak) which made its fortune targeting retailers, restaurants, and gambling firms in more than 40 countries around the world, stealing tens of millions of payment card details at thousands of business locations.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Education was the most targeted industry in 2022, with attacks increasing by 576%, while the retail and wholesale sector dropped by 67% from 2021. The latest phishing report from Zscaler ThreatLabz reveals that phishing attacks are still on the rise, detailing a 47.2%

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

This London-based business provides facility management & security services to organizations such as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), HM Revenue & Customs, various UK boroughs and councils, British retailer WHSmith , and other organizations.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Most recently, a former T-Mobile retail store owner was convicted for stealing employee credentials to illegally access internal computer systems and unlock and unblock cellphones. Very often he would socially engineer employees at the IT help desk to get their credentials. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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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. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2021

Conti is a form of ransomware that has often targeted health care organizations and retailers, The post I Triggered a Ransomware Attack – Here’s What I Learned appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A splash of fraudulent domain management and social engineering may be all that it takes to get the job done. Instead of going after a company directly, attackers figure out a network of vendors, clients, customers, suppliers…you name it, they’ll try and map it all out.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Bantick “As the MOVEit hack has proved, the bad actors are always looking for new ways to attack with tactics ranging from third party supplier attacks to more sophisticated social engineering and phishing attack techniques.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from PayBito crypto exchange FBI issued a flash alert on Lockbit ransomware operation CISA orders federal agencies to fix actively exploited CVE-2022-21882 Windows flaw Over 500,000 people were impacted by a ransomware attack that hit Morley Ransomware attack hit Swissport International causing delays (..)

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

An Office 365 retail pack. Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons). But since these types of socially engineered attacks do not make use of these tactics, it evades traditional defenses,” Tobe explained.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

After a slight pause, they ask you to purchase some gift cards for an upcoming raffle from whatever local retailer is close to you. It’s important training includes more than just a series of videos and a test; organizations have to leverage active participation tools as well such as social engineering campaigns.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

33-year-old Andrii Kolpakov worked for the FIN7 gang (also sometimes known as Carbanak, Navigator Group, or Anunak) which made its fortune targeting retailers, restaurants, and gambling firms in more than 40 countries around the world, stealing tens of millions of payment card details at thousands of business locations.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The wily hackers that executed a successful email phishing campaign against IKEA using internal and compromised partner reply-chain emails show that corporations, particularly retailers hit hard and scrambling to recover after the pandemic, must continue to shore up their defenses and educate employees.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. And now UScellular admits that it detected its network breach on Jan. 6, some two days after the attackers gained unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. The combination of advanced anti-fraud technologies and intelligence protects both banking and retail customers. million customers against possible attacks. About Group-IB.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. The analysis of the web injects used by the group suggests that the threat actors were also interested in steal credentials for websites associated with major retailers.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

His compromise modus operandi was a combination of breaking into networks run by food retailers, and breaking into networks containing confidential patient records. This could put those people at an increased risk of social engineering or identity theft. That’s quite a peculiar mixture.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2022

Once an attacker has access to an account, they can view personal information and leverage that for a successful social engineering attack, sell that information on the Dark Web, or if they find financial information, make fraudulent purchases. This is particularly effective on those who reuse passwords across multiple accounts.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

While some may be harmless, consisting of ads from retailers, criminals also use emails in mass-market phishing campaigns. They use social engineering techniques such as clickbait and scare tactics to persuade recipients to access a fraudulent link or malicious attachment. A daily dose of spam.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

Most online retailers years ago stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia. ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Sprung just before Black Friday, this scam had it all—the urgency of an annual mega-shopping event, the name of a recognized and trusted online retailer, and the allure of a once-benign product now launched into viral celebrity. But the tech support scam held up by “Wooflocker” is different.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

Organizations like OneSpan now analyze bank fraud through the mobile app landscape through areas like social engineering attacks, screen captures, or changing SIM cards, LaSala told me. Security capabilities are branching out beyond mobile banking into corporate cash management applications and retail channels.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress is a popular online custom T-shirt and merchandise retailer. As well as over 180,000 unencrypted Social Security Numbers (SSNs), along with tens of thousands of partial payment card numbers (last 4 digits) and expiration dates. A treasure trove for social engineers. Informing customers.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) just released the 2022 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report that reveals the most prevalent malware tools leveraged by cyber criminals this year, with phishing and fraud dominating the list.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

“The users were able to impersonate an infinite number of entities (such as banks, retail companies and government institutions) for financial gain and substantial losses to victims.” ” reads the announcement published by Europol. ” reported the Dutch Police.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fact 2: the retail sector, particularly e-commerce, has always been popular with cybercriminals. In this research, we analyzed various types of threats: financial malware associated with major online shopping platforms as well as phishing pages and fake websites mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms.

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