SecureWorld News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Their techniques included SIM swapping, prompt bombing attacks, and social engineering, which allowed them to infiltrate well-defended organizations. Lapsus$ techniques and motivations Lapsus$ gained notoriety for its sophisticated techniques and motivations that seemed to oscillate between fame, financial gain, and sheer amusement.

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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. Multiple national call centres suspected of telecommunications fraud were also raided. A large-scale Interpol operation has resulted in arrested and ill-gotten gains seizures galore.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since then the group has expanded its range of activities to include targeting organizations providing cable telecommunications, email, and tech services, and partnering with the ALPHV ransomware group. It can even hurt companies with enterprise grade security. The security of your private accounts matters to the company you work for.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN).”

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

The APT group targets telecommunication and travel industries in the Middle East to gather intelligence on Iran’s geopolitical interests. The Chafer APT group has distributed data stealer malware since at least mid-2014, it was focused on surveillance operations and the tracking of individuals. ” continues the report.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2023

The recent API breach at Australian telecommunications provider Optus (who has set aside $140 million to cover costs from the incident) falls under this category. Security teams have no knowledge about these undocumented APIs, including the data they handle and their security posture.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Answer: The decision to pursue a career in cybersecurity came easy to me, as I was tenured as a technology and telecommunications professional for 15 years. As a military veteran of the United States Navy, I had a foundational background working in telecommunications. I enjoyed troubleshooting systems and solving problems.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2022

Interestingly, Welch said, the texts appear to be targeting users of Verizon Wireless, one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the US. But this could have easily led to nefarious payloads, like malware, and some have already classed this as a smishing (or “SMS phishing”) attempt.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Doing so, businesses will be put ahead of the threats, and future risks – no matter if they are called ransomware, deepfake, or social engineering attacks – will hit on a robust human firewall of cybersecurity awareness. He is also a writer for Bora.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2022

When LAPSUS first grabbed the attention of the cybersecurity community, they had already compromised companies like Impresa, the largest media conglomerate in Brazil; Claro, one of Brazil’s telecommunications operators; and Brazil’s Ministry of Health. Notably, their use of Spanish and Portuguese was akin to native speakers.

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Hacking Social Engineering Telecommunications Cybersecurity 87

Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2024

Nice Cup of IoTea? The UK’s Product Security and Tele­comm­uni­cations Infra­struc­ture Act aims to improve the security of net-connected consumer gear. The post Brits Ban Default Passwords — and More IoT Stupidity appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. “Password spraying, DNS tunneling, social engineering, and abuse of security testing frameworks are common tactics, particularly from threat groups operating in the Middle East.” ”concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

Telecommunications relay services (TRSs) developed by Soleo Communications are IP relay services used by major Internet service providers (ISPs) in Canada. An attacker could extract these passwords from within the source files, and further escalate their privileges on the server, or even use said information in a social engineering attack.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2024

Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities. The post FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Most mobile providers offer customers the option of placing a PIN or secret passphrase on their accounts to lessen the likelihood of such attacks succeeding, but these protections also usually fail when the attackers are social engineering some $12-an-hour employee at a mobile phone store.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2023

Usually, this involves some crafty social engineering, like spear phishing or setting up a watering hole to deliver custom malware. This could be anything from figuring out whether there's sensitive data or information worth stealing to making a hit list of employees or ex-employees. Step 2 : Infiltration.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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Cyber threats Energy and Utilities Ransomware IoT 71

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Limited tests allow for a deeper dive into a particular environment, are used for updates and new applications, are more focused, and are cheaper and faster to run. The widely used OSSTMM sets recognized standards for tests, is peer-reviewed, and is based on a scientific approach.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

It primarily goes after targets located in China, such as foreign diplomatic organizations established in the country, members of the academic community, or companies from the defense, logistics and telecommunications sectors.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

The campaign targeted Israeli employees of large multinational organizations with a pay-related social engineering lure. The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors. The phishing campaign started on March 7 and continued through the week of March 11, 2024.

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Phishing Social Engineering Telecommunications Accountability 109

SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business. She served as chief scientist for the Cyber Warfare Operations Group, and, prior to Johns Hopkins, deputy director of the National Security Agency’s Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There are plenty of people on Telegram claiming to have SIM-swap access at major telecommunications firms, but a great many such offers are simply four-figure scams, and any pretenders on this front are soon identified and banned ( if not worse ). One of the groups that reliably posted “Tmo up!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Their scope of interests includes – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T. Over the last months, the Lapsus$ gang compromised other prominent companies such as NVIDIA , Samsung , Ubisoft , Mercado Libre, and Vodafone.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Provide cybersecurity awareness training to all personnel, enabling them to identify social engineering attacks and risky behavior. Deploy anti-malware, anti-ransomware, and EDR tools to detect and block known attacks, while still assuming infections will occur. Stress reporting suspicious activity.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies. Our telemetry revealed that the threat group’s latest endeavors are focused on going after entities within one country – Tunisia. Final thoughts.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Influence operations (IO) have also been utilized as a weapon during the conflict, by targeting Russian telecommunications providers, utilities, and private companies. In October 2022, the IT Army of Ukraine were reported as having targeted Russian company FTNET stealing 240GB of data and posting it online.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ? The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors.” MuddyWater.

Computers and Electronics 76

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB’s report Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 examines various aspects of cybercrime industry operations and predicts changes to the threat landscape for various sectors, namely the financial industry, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and the energy sector. Threat actors have also set a new record in DDoS attack power: 2.3

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. During signup, the scammers additionally offered the victim a “free consultation”, during which they likely used social engineering to persuade the victim to hand over money.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It determined that the injection point was situated within the connection between two Egyptian telecommunication providers. They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 102