eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Financial institutions in the 1990s and 2000s were some of the first to incorporate encryption to protect online transactions, particularly as backup tapes were lost in transit. In 2016, only 40% of websites protected their web pages and visiting users with HTTPS. Asymmetric Cryptography: Need for Security.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Petya was a reason behind many attacks during 2016 and 2017. Ransomcloud is not only a decrypting malware but a complex of social engineering tactics behind it. And here’s what may be a hint: A sense of urgency, which is a common social engineering tactic. Backup is a copy of your data stored separately.

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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

The breach was not fully disclosed until September 2016. In June 2016, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, were vandalized. According to the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , 13% of those tested clicked on the attachment of a phishing email.

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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. Persistence Backdoor #2. ca9b98f17b9e24ca3f802c04eb508103.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

For instance, back in 2016, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following an extensive email leak from WikiLeaks. In recent years, the number of hack-and-leak incidents has steadily increased, with this becoming a popular tool for both APTs and cybercriminals. Final thoughts.

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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. Dharma ransomware first emerged in 2016 and uses a popular phishing strategy of impersonating Microsoft with email subjects such as Your System is At Risk.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Among these experienced affiliates is the “Scattered Spider” group, known for its custom tools and advanced social engineering skills, which helped RansomHub become the most active ransomware group in Q3 2024 (see Figure 1).

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Among these experienced affiliates is the “Scattered Spider” group, known for its custom tools and advanced social engineering skills, which helped RansomHub become the most active ransomware group in Q3 2024 (see Figure 1).

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Criminals may utilize all sorts of social engineering approaches, as well as technical exploits, in order to deliver their ransomware into their intended targets. Remember to keep backups disconnected from your computer and network so that if any ransomware (or other malware) gets onto the network it cannot infect the backups.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Phishing and Social Engineering. Phishing and social engineering are a type of email attack that attempts to trick users into divulging passwords, downloading an attachment or visiting a website that installs malware on their systems. with no internet.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The rootkit itself was spread through a number of infection vectors, most notably social engineering and exploit packs like Blackhole. This article was originally written by Fred Donovan in 2016. The bot was spread through the ZeroAccess rootkit, an aggressive and difficult-to-detect kernel-mode rootkit.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

PetitPotam abuses several functions in the Encrypting File System (EFS) service, such as EfsRpcOpenFileRaw, which opens a file in an arbitrary path for backup/restore. However, as of Windows Server 2016, SPNs support SPNs with IP addresses.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

billion data records with Social Security numbers Disrupting Russian Cybercrime: WWH-Club Admins Arrested International Investigation Leads to Shutdown of Ransomware Group Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks Kootenai Health Data Breach Unconfirmed Hack of 2.9

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