Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Targeted Phishing and Social Engineering: In some cases, attackers may employ targeted phishing emails or social engineering techniques to gain initial access to a system within the target network. By using specific search queries, an attacker can identify systems that are potentially susceptible to EternalBlue.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

Established in 2003, the company has expanded to house 500 staff. Threat actors could use employee data to devise targeted emails or launch social engineering attacks,” researchers said. Whoever’s in control of the Amazon S3 bucket ought to secure sensitive files using server-side encryption.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Social Engineering Retail Banking 98

SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Visual Studio 2003 – 7.10 In response to the POST request, the C2 server returns a blob containing an encrypted second stage payload. The DLL also encrypts the request body by first encrypting it with a pseudorandom AES-128 (ECB) key and then encrypting the AES key with an RSA public key specified in the configuration.

Encryption 145

Encryption Spyware Malware Software 145

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The attackers used social engineering to gain long-term access to the development environment and extended it with fake human interactions in plain sight. They also used Krong, a proxy that uses XOR to encrypt the data passing through it, thereby concealing the content of the traffic to avoid detection.

Malware 108

Malware Passwords Ransomware Encryption 108

Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

It was developed in 1993, in the unfortunate days when DES was the standard encryption algorithm, so thats what Microsoft used to generate the response, as described in the diagrambelow: As shown above, the clients password is transformed into an NT hash, which is the MD4 hash of the Unicode-encoded password, to be used as the DES encryption key.

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Authentication Accountability Passwords Encryption 52

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. Formerly on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Kevin Mitnick is a crucial figure in the history of information security, including approaches to social engineering and penetration testing.

Accountability 139

Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. In 2003, one of the first pieces of malware designed to make money was discovered. It later evolved to also include file encryption. One of the first instances was the Love Letter virus of 2000.

Malware 140

Malware Ransomware Internet Internet 140