Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. Or maybe they’re groomed in order to set up a bank account for their lovers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then. Threat actors also injected software skimmers inside a company’s cloud hosting account that was poorly protected. In other attacks, hackers have compromised plugins used by e-commerce platforms in a classic supply chain attack.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

American citizens lost over $6,000,000 due to these individuals’ BEC fraud schemes, in which they impersonated business executives and requested and received wire transfers from legitimate business accounts.” Between early 2015 and September 2016, Uzuh and an accomplice engaged in BEC fraud targeting over 100 businesses in a single.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. SSM documents are private by default, but developers can share them with other AWS accounts or publicly. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection. In our estimation, the group operates dozens of researchers and intelligence personnel to maintain the campaign globally.”

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Don’t share user accounts with others on your team. Many of the attack tactics involved elements of social engineering–persuasion tactics that take advantage of human psychology to trick victims into taking actions that have aided the adversaries. Tighten your domain configuration.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it. hackers can access them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Then the threat actor gains access to the victim’s Microsoft 365 account. ” concludes the report.

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Phishing Social Engineering Authentication Government 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

The hackers gained access to Blue Bear , a cloud school accounting software customized especially for K-12 schools and districts to help manage and simplify schools’ activity fund accounting. E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. Links account for 29%, while attachments—for 71%. Another trend was disguising malware in emails.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Elsewhere, leaks in which passwords may feature prominently can run the full range of “secure password” to “plaintext data and viewable by anyone” When passwords are exposed, it potentially provides inroads into multiple accounts owned by the victim. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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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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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats. A Group-IB report “ 2018 Cryptocurrency Exchanges: Analysis of User Account Leaks ” shows a steady increase in incidents involving compromised user accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. Whether spread by malvertising or email spam, the end result was the same. The basic plan?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This helps to explain the rise of social engineering attacks , especially with phishing. Before that, he founded AppNeta (acquired by SolarWinds in 2016) and was a founding engineer at eJonesPulse. The same notion applies for third parties, like contractors and business partners.”. Kubernetes Security and Observability.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

The flaw allowed anyone to send emails on behalf of Uber, meaning they would end with “ @uber.com “, just like the one below: The proof-of-concept (PoC) email that Seif sent to his Gmail account while testing the Uber email server flaw. Source: @0x21SAFE on Twitter).

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

To be more precise, 2010, 2016, and now 2022 with a whole new astronaut to recover. While there was no direct evidence of account theft from the malware file, numerous accounts caught out by this attack were indeed compromised. So yes, it’s weird…but it’s just a one off. See you in 2026?

Scams 93

Scams Social Engineering Engineering Accountability 93

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

Cybercrime 135

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of their attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. During the carnival of 2016, a Brazilian bank realized that their ATMs had been hacked, with all the cash contained in those machines stolen. Initial infection vector.

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Malware Banking Software Encryption 139

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

” E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then. In other attacks, hackers have compromised plugins used by e-commerce platforms in a classic supply chain attack or have injected software skimmers inside a company’s cloud hosting account that was poorly protected.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Apart from taking over bank accounts, TrickBot has been instrumental in spreading ransomware across multiple healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure in the US, especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This should include restoring from backups, client outreach, and reporting to law enforcement among others.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Today, both outsiders with the right social engineering skills and disgruntled personnel pose risks to sensitive data when network architectures fail to implement microsegmentation and advanced network traffic analysis (NTA). billion in 2016. Vectra Threat Detection and Response Platform Features. Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT Features.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

In December 2016 the actor “maza-in” wrote an article named “Android BOT from scratch” in which he shared source code of a new Android banking Trojan capable of sending and intercepting text messages as well as performing overlay attacks to steal credentials. Origins: It all started with BankBot.

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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. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. When opened, this document eventually downloads a backdoor.

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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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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Automated attacks are increasingly used in brute force assaults designed to acquire the log-in details needed to access retailers’ customer and employee accounts. Bad actors can socially engineer this information to construct spear phishing attacks aimed at staff or whaling attacks designed to scam senior executives.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If you are running Microsoft Office 2016, there is a policy option that allows an administrator to disallow Word from enabling macros on Office files downloaded from the Internet. 4. Least Privilege : In order to prevent ransomware from infecting a system, keep account permissions to the lowest possible setting.

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Spinone

JANUARY 12, 2019

The CEO-fraud attack is a special form of social engineering that plays upon employee’s general respect and regard for C-level executives. The social engineering involved allows the attacker to play on the emotions and willingness to quickly please individuals who are in a C-level position by lower-level employees.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It serves as a warning to regularly backup company data and train every employee on how to identify phishing and social engineering attacks. Using what some call deep voice, criminals impersonated the voice of a top executive to convince a bank manager to transfer US$35 million to their account.

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