The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. The first worm of note that accomplished this was Stuxnet.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

Another attack scenario sees hackers targeting the administrators of the platform with social engineering attacks in an attempt to obtain his credentials and use them to plant the malicious code in the e-store. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 3BA945FD2C123FEC74EFDEA042DDAB4EB697677C600F83C87E07F895FB1B55E2. 2021-Dec-21 09:44:08. PE32+ executable (DLL) (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows. When Tor Browser (either the legitimate or the infected one) starts up, it loads the freebl3.dll 2022-Feb-16 09:56:56.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

What's not obvious Social Engineering Beyond Email : Cybercriminals may use social media or messaging apps to target individuals with scams. Messaging apps and in-app messages on social apps are great for these. Unsecured Wi-Fi Networks : Using public or unsecured Wi-Fi can expose users to eavesdropping and data theft.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

To be more precise, 2010, 2016, and now 2022 with a whole new astronaut to recover. Whether those compromises specifically were via some additional form of social engineering, we’ll likely never know. So yes, it’s weird…but it’s just a one off. Invisible ads for thee but not for me.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Another attack scenario sees hackers targeting the administrators of the platform with social engineering attacks in an attempt to obtain his credentials and use them to plant the malicious code in the e-store. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. .

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The first two samples had 2010/2011 as the compilation date, as shown on the graph below. SPSniffer , which we described in 2010: both families are able to intercept signals from PIN pads , but use different approaches in doing so. Warning from a PoS vendor about Prilex social engineering attacks. A link to the past.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . Estimated to have been around since 2005, Kaspersky Lab discovered Stuxnet in 2010. Now decades later, these complex systems are running on legacy software and operating systems.

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Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

He retired as a colonel in 2010. His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business. Cedric Leighton is founder and president of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership management consultancy. His passions include transforming health care and building strong communities.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

Phishing and social engineering awareness : Raising awareness about common attack vectors like phishing emails, malicious links, or social engineering attempts that can lead to unauthorized access to data or system compromise.

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Artificial Intelligence Data privacy Social Engineering Risk 52

Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It offers reliable backup for the entire Office 365 and in addition to that, it provides an extra security layer against social engineering cyber attacks. .’ You’ll have Registry Editor opened. Luckily the market offers a variety of solutions that can fix those problems. Spin is one of such applications.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Using Outdated Software – companies pay about $36 295 to return their data from hacker By “software” we mean using old versions of Office like Office 2007 / 2010 / 2013 and not checking for the system updates and patches in Office 365. If you are guilty of it too, be ready for some security repercussions.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

With the launch the first stable release of BackTrack 4 in January 2010, the project got its own domain ( backtrack-linux.org ) and moved off remote-exploit. As this was not a “Long-Term Support” (LTS) release, upstream would only support it until April 2010 - one year & six months.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. Traditionally, these attacks put an emphasis on social engineering, finding innovative new ways to defraud end-users. election process. aerospace and satellite sectors.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The malicious payload was then used to upload additional malware, usually the Quarian backdoor that has been seen in use by Chinese-speaking actors since around 2010. Social engineering remains a key method for initiating attacks; but also exploits (CloudComputating, Origami Elephant, Andariel), including exploiting firmware vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. Stuxnet , discovered in 2010, was the first documented attempt by sovereign nations to use malware to attack other sovereign nations. One of the first instances was the Love Letter virus of 2000.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

First discovered in 2010, Stuxnet was used to severely disrupt Iran’s nuclear facilities, apparently in an effort to halt the nation’s development of an atomic bomb. The rootkit itself was spread through a number of infection vectors, most notably social engineering and exploit packs like Blackhole.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That’s a minor coup for a company launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers for the purposes of granting discounts for veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. . -based ID.me “It’s like the D-Day of fraud, this is Omaha Beach we’re on right now.

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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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Mitnick was known for his social engineering skills, which he used to trick employees into divulging sensitive information or passwords. The most famous example of this was the Stuxnet worm , which was discovered in 2010 and was believed to have been created by the US and Israeli governments to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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Hacking Cybersecurity Internet Internet 75

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Though APTs were regularly seen from then on inside the industry, the term didn’t gain public consciousness until an attack on Google servers in 2010 , the fault of which was assigned to Chinese APTs. Social engineering training. From then on, APT became a heavily used, marketable term. Monitoring. Regular patching.

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Social Engineering Backups Malware Ransomware 72

The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

The Obama sanctions helped security analysts and the FBI piece together how Bogachev, around 2010, began running unusual searches on well-placed PCs he controlled, via Gameover Zeus infections. Then somewhere along the way, Bogachev commenced moonlighting as a cyber spy for the Russian government. That was a glitch. Talk more soon.

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