Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced <a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint

Social Engineering 101

Social Engineering Cybersecurity Unstructured Data Engineering 101

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

According to a study conducted by se-curity firm Mandiant, the group has been in operation since 2018 and has now been tasked with carrying out both espionage and financially motivated attacks such as credential harvesting and social engineering.

Hacking 105

Hacking Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Manufacturing 105

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Over 56% of Americans believe that the social media giant is causing a negative impact on the society. Just 20% of them believe that their presence on social networking websites has yielded them paybacks; with 8% of them chose not to offer their opinion.

Retail 101

Retail Advertising Media Internet 101

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. Can security researchers be socially engineered?

Social Engineering 93

Social Engineering Engineering Accountability Malware 93

Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2023

The campaign included a network of fictitious Twitter accounts posing as employees of a firm called “High Sierra Cyber Security” The Record notes that several photographs of real security researchers working at well known firms were misused in the campaign. This was a risky gambit for the creators of this malware scam.

Malware 84

Malware Scams Accountability Media 84

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shared their observations about a group of cybercriminals called Exotic Lily. Among these interested parties TAG found the Conti and Diavol ransomware groups. From the TAG blog we can learn that Exotic Lily was very much specialized. Social engineering. Initial access broker.

Ransomware 88

Ransomware Malware Social Engineering Media 88

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report , a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. response to COVID-19.

Accountability 94

Accountability Advertising Media Government 94

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

The aim behind the said social engineering attack is simple, one to trap employees with fake job offers and second to lure customers in signing up the page and then steal their currency. All these days, they were busy launching phishing emails on corporate networks.

Social Engineering 117

Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Education Cybercrime 117

Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits. The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices.

Spyware 80

Spyware Surveillance Mobile Education 80

Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

tag=Inbound Threats'>Inbound Threats</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Email Social engineering lures are a good example. <a href='/blog?tag=Inbound This is where advanced email security solutions can play an important role. Request a Demo.

Cybersecurity 119

Cybersecurity CISO Social Engineering Technology 119

Cisco Security

MAY 17, 2021

Today, we’re also announcing a new way forward: NetWORK security. It’s our vision for simplifying network, workload, and multicloud protection, by: Translating intent into action. We’ve responded, delivering on our NetWORK vision. Introducing r eal-time, unified, workload and network security. Security is too complicated.

Network Security 98

Network Security Firewall VPN Encryption 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. Unlike other ALPHV affiliates, UNC4466 doesn’t rely on stolen credentials for initial access to victim environments.

Backups 80

Backups Spyware Ransomware Education 80

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. The researchers noticed that the most common attack against networks and cloud instances is the account takeover.

Media 93

Media Accountability Government Malware 93

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns.

Malware 125

Malware Phishing Antivirus Hacking 125

SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

According to Avanan blog, once the attacker publishes the lure, “Google provides a link with embed tags that are meant to be used on forums to render custom content. The attacker does not need the iframe tags and only needs to copy the part with the Google Docs link.

Phishing 110

Phishing Social Engineering Engineering CISO 110

Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

As organizations update their network infrastructure and security tools, migration to TLS 1.3 becomes more realistic, but it is a difficult pill to swallow for many organizations to revamp their network topology due to this update. Ask a Question, Comment Below, and Stay Connected with Cisco Secure on social! LinkedIn.

Encryption 145

Encryption Engineering Technology Firewall 145

NopSec

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The actual setup of your scanner is integral for vulnerability scanning , obviously; but, before you can efficiently scan your environment, you’ll need to get a lay of the land from your infrastructure team and figure out how your network is configured. What is static vs. DHCP? How prevalent are access groups?

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing Social Engineering Risk Media 52

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries.

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Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 357

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2022

The accessed data by the Conti Ransomware gang includes social security numbers, names, Dobs, and employee identification-related material of snap-on franchisees and associates. After obtaining access to different company networks, it puts access to those companies on sale.

Ransomware 79

Ransomware Retail Cyber Attacks Malware 79

Cisco Security

JULY 26, 2021

This integration enables you to pull down the service tags and categories to populate a dynamic attribute to deploy an IP address, network, or additional fields (port and protocol in the future) within the access control policy. Ask a Question, Comment Below, and Stay Connected with Cisco Secure on social! LinkedIn.

Firewall 127

Firewall Architecture Network Security 127

Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Malware-based anonymity networks are a major source of unwanted and malicious web traffic directed at online retailers, Internet service providers (ISPs), social networks, email providers and financial institutions. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

Malware 203

Malware VPN Internet Internet 203

Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With traditional firewalls, network security teams are charged with the heavy lifting of deploying new solutions. Security that works with you – Simplified firewall insertion delivers the security you need, without having to rearchitect your network. Amazon Partner Network: Cisco Solutions on AWS. Introduction. Next Steps.

Firewall 113

Firewall Network Security Architecture VPN 113

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

), and finally with stealing not only your searches and browsing data, but also affiliation to 10,000 targeted sites — a capability that is easily leveraged for targeted spear phishing, account takeover and credential extraction — all using this powerful network of millions of infected computers worldwide!”

Social Engineering 87

Social Engineering Phishing Accountability Banking 87

Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media.

Malware 115

Malware Antivirus Hacking Accountability 115

Cisco Security

JUNE 28, 2021

Recent cyber attacks on industrial organizations and critical infrastructures have made it clear: operational and IT networks are inseparably linked. With digitization, data needs to seamlessly flow between enterprise IT and industrial OT networks for the business to function. Network segmentation.

IoT 92

IoT Architecture Marketing Threat Detection 92

Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

After that I joined Northrop Grumman as a network engineer working on large-scale computer network emulation. The first was a commercial cybersecurity company which did malware detection on high-speed networks. Pete Kaloroumakis: D3FEND stands for Detection, Denial, and Disruption Framework Empowering Network Defense.

Engineering 112

Engineering Technology Cybersecurity Internet 112

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

An unsuspecting employee will open a legitimate-looking message and click a link or download a file that releases embedded malware onto their machine or the broader company network. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over.

Ransomware 124

Ransomware Education Financial Services Phishing 124

Cisco Security

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In Cisco Secure Endpoint there are four severity tags that can be applied to a given event; these severity tags are assigned by Cisco threat research team based on the global threat landscape knowledge and are continuously tuned to maintain a high level of accuracy. Cisco Secure Social Channels. We’d love to hear what you think.

Risk 108

Risk Threat Detection Malware Government 108

Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2022

But it’s a little bit harder to spot an AI-generated image, as you can see on sites such as This Person Does Not Exist , and some people are using these fake images on social media. When LinkedIn connections go wrong. The researchers digging into this discovered companies selling LinkedIn marketing services.

Marketing 93

Marketing Accountability Media 93

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Attackers used a phishing link associated with a custom URL shortener, which was tied to a larger network of almost 28,000 URL shorteners containing the email addresses of targets. The employees also shared on social media screenshots of links to Dark Basin infrastructure.

Hacking 98

Hacking Phishing Accountability Media 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to a recent IBM report , breaches now come with a record-high price tag of $10.1 More than half of the breaches started with the network servers being compromised either through email phishing, malware or privileged credential misuse. million patients. million patients.

Healthcare 105

Healthcare Ransomware Social Engineering Identity Theft 105

Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Social media and tech giants, including Google , are already looking at other business models to replace tracking cookies since they are the ones that benefited the most from targeted advertising, by providing the most useful information to the advertisers. Plus, that sounds a lot better than tagging another tracker on us.

Advertising 106

Advertising Internet Internet Mobile 106

Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Introducing the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN With this latest release of Kali Linux, our network of community mirrors grew much stronger, thanks to the help of the Micro Mirror CDN! One-liner: a network of mirrors dedicated to serving Linux and Free Software. Your browser does not support the video tag. Here’s the story.

Software 145

Software Firmware VPN Internet 145

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

Spyware 72

Spyware Ransomware Malware Data breaches 72

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Also referred to as the "evil twin," the phony wireless network provides a would-be victim with an internet connection, possibly with a stronger signal than the original, with no heads-up visible to the naked eye. The most effective countermeasure for this style of attack is to avoid using public wireless networks altogether.

Phishing 99

Phishing Scams Passwords Wireless 99

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

” In May 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. The implant communicates discreetly with itself, without network-based indicators and avoiding SELinux restrictions.”

Spyware 90

Spyware Surveillance Media Malware 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The hacker exploited the vulnerability and used these IoT devices to launch a massive attack on social media platforms. Some of the major social media platforms, including Twitter, were down for a couple of hours. If one network gets compromised, others might crumble, too. This type of malware attack is called a botnet attack.

IoT 134

IoT Cybersecurity Manufacturing Internet 134