Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. This script shows a social engineering message, such as a Flash update popup or a DNS error, and attempts to trick the victim into downloading a malicious file deploy a Cobalt Strike loader.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. Near the holiday season of 2013, hackers exposed the credit and debit card information of over 110 million Target customers. Here are three of the worst data breaches that could have been avoided: Yahoo.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2022

In April of 2013, CNN introduced the world to Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, by publishing an article titled, Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet. The post Shodan: Still the Scariest Search Engine on the Internet?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. The breach is rightly attracting attention of regulators in Europe and the United States. Satya Gupta, CTO and Co-founder, Virsec: Gupta.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . As part of the recently observed campaign, the state-sponsored hackers used three different spear-phishing methods: Ending an email message leveraging social engineering methods.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

StrongPity APT group has been active since at least 2013, it’s responsible for cyberespionage campaigns against Turkish targets. The group used zero-day exploits, social engineering tricks, and Trojanized software installers to deliver malware to their victims.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. This article focuses on the top five attack vectors organizations should look out for and defend against in 2022. He currently also works with Bora.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018. I recently interviewed Ronnie Tokazowski , a reverse engineer at New York City-based security firm Flashpoint and something of an expert on BEC fraud. BK: And where are they coming from?

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Anton on Security

JUNE 2, 2023

In fact, 10 years ago, the very first vendors that looked at these problems were born; they were later called CSPM for cloud security posture management ( Bard thinks that the term “CSPM” was born in 2013, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my former colleagues cooked it up a bit earlier). so 2013, yet so now! ]

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

Most big web platforms turned 2FA on around 2013 and the only people using it a decade later seem to be corporates and expert users. Once an attacker has these, organizations and individuals become vulnerable to an attempted bypass or social engineering attack at some point.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

Criminals got clever with social engineering by masquerading the ransomware as a law enforcement agency (perhaps the FBI) and making accusations that illegal files are on the system. However, this has now evolved to locking entire organizations down.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

The project is based on work Baines did for Europol’s Cyber Crimes Center, Project 2020, which made a similar series of predictions in 2013 targeting last year. AI could impact more than just social engineering. “The future we described turned out to be really quite accurate,” said Baines.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s been a feature of the Xbox One gaming console since 2013, but doesn’t exit in PCs… yet. If it has, something untoward has happened and an error is raised. Windows 11 comes ready to embrace the impressively-named Pluton TPM architecture.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 2013: The End of the Silk Road Authorities were able to trace the pseudonym back to Ulbricht thanks to the efforts of an IRS investigator who was working with the DEA on the Silk Road case in mid-2013. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

in 2013 suffering 3 billion accounts becoming exposed to attackers, or LinkedIn discovering 117 million passwords up for sale in 2016, this can have a major impact on the users. Social engineers will trick you however they can. It’s not small organisations falling foul of these problems , either.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Ransomware and BEC attacks pivot off social engineering that begins with criminals using search engines and haunting social media sites to gather intelligence about a specific employee at a targeted company. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To this day, the most infamous exploit kit is one called Angler, responsible for infecting over 90,000 websites between 2013 and 2016. Some use social engineering, deceiving people into clicking a link they shouldn’t, while others create malvertisements by planting a corrupted ad on a reputable website.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

HydraPOS has been spotted in attacks that employed social engineering techniques. Discovered for the first time in Mexico back in 2013, the malware keeps evolving via new versions and has been seen targeting enterprises, such as ATM manufacturers, in Brazil among other places.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Edward Snowden and the NSA breach of 2013, as well as dozens of other nightmares, point to the growing threat of inside threats for a universe of IT environments.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Social Engineering Techniques Social engineering is different—it’s about manipulating people instead of hacking technology. Here are some common social engineering techniques: Phishing: Sending fake emails that look real to trick users into clicking on bad links or sharing sensitive info.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

In November 2021, an unauthorized third party called a Robinhood customer support employee and, through social engineering , gained access to the company’s customer support systems. Examples of Notable RDP Attacks. Calling into Robinhood.

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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 ? According to MITRE: “APT33 is a suspected Iranian threat group that has carried out operations since at least 2013. MuddyWater. CopyKittens. Jordan, and Germany.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This approach can reduce the risk of account takeover through password theft or social engineering attacks while making the login process faster and more user-friendly. Additionally, complete session monitoring can be used to prevent account hijacking and social engineering attacks that can happen after login.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

Our policyholders often face big dollar challenges like ransomware and social engineering with very modest IT budgets,” Ms. According to Betty Shepherd, Divisional Senior Vice President, Great American Cyber Risk, EagleEye is a valuable loss prevention tool for insureds. Shepherd said. “We About SecurityScorecard.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How Phishing Works: Social Engineering The term “phishing” is broadly defined as sending an email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. All of them rely on social engineering, a term that describes methods of deception used to coerce a victim into giving up valuable information.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2023

In fact, 10 years ago, the very first vendors that looked at these problems were born; they were later called CSPM for cloud security posture management ( Bard thinks that the term “CSPM” was born in 2013, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my former colleagues cooked it up a bit earlier). so 2013, yet so now! ]

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

AttackIQ calls San Diego, California, home and started as an automated validation platform in 2013. Picus Security is a continuous security validation vendor located in San Francisco and founded in 2013. FireEye’s Mandiant. Picus Security. SafeBreach. Picus Security. Red Teaming. Est. Product Description. San Diego, CA. Picus Security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Ransomware.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

CryptoLocker (one of the most widely-known variants that was active from 2013 to 2014) demanded $300.00. Social engineering: Social engineering testing is an effective tool to complement user awareness by exposing human flaws in processes that can subsequently be addressed.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 Spear phishing is an advanced social engineering technique where a person at an organization, the mark, is targeted with trojaned messages or files that include accurate, if not personal, information regarding the target org.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on macOS and Windows operating systems. The Windows version has a VBS script-based implant as the final stage, instead of the C#/PowerShell combination observed previously in Powersing samples. Final thoughts.

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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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