Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Threat actors have devised a new trick to disable macro security warning that leverage non-malicious docs in phishing attacks. Most of the phishing attacks leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

According to DoJ, from at least in or about 2016 through or about April 2021, Nasab and other co-conspirators carried out a coordinated multi-year campaign to breach computers worldwide. Nasab and other conspirators used spear phishing and other hacking techniques to infect more than 200,000 victim devices.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. Even though U.S.

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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. Fraudulent emails purporting to be from authoritative company sources are the main phishing attacks that employees fall victim to.

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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. Attackers sent to the victims weaponized spear-phishing messages using a malicious attachment.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

This breach, like every major ransomware attack, was likely because of spear phishing, where someone either received the malware via an emailed attachment or clicked on a link that took them to a website that hosted it. In fact, in March 2016, I wrote a piece in CNN calling for urgent action and offering solutions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Employee Training on Phishing and Digital Security. Hackers aren’t only coders — they’re also social engineers. One in 99 emails is a phishing attack , a fraudulent email designed to look legitimate so an employee will click on a malicious link inside or reply with privileged information.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On Friday, Starwood Properties, which merged with Marriott in 2016, disclosed as many as 500 million people who made reservations at their hotels may have had their personal information accessed in a breach that lasted as long as four years. Satya Gupta, CTO and Co-founder, Virsec: Gupta.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. The post Careful!

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Most of the malspam campaigns leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. Zloader has been active at least since 2016, it borrows some functions from the notorious Zeus 2.0.8.9 banking Trojan and was used to spread Zeus-like banking trojan (i.e.

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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. The phishing kit market.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2023

The top security threat cited by respondents was software vulnerabilities and/or Zero-Days (53%), followed by phishing/social engineering threats (52%) and attacks targeting the supply chain (49%).

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Hackers Do a Payroll Diversion Through Phishing. A direct deposit paycheck hack involves getting the necessary details from the victim through a phishing scheme. This method hackers use likely won’t come as a surprise when you consider a few recent statistics about phishing. Plus, in 83.9% jurisdiction offers.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Sometimes, it’s used even if an attack being discussed is a basic phish, or maybe some very generic malware. Initially observed by our Labs team spreading via malvertising campaigns , it quickly became a major problem for businesses everywhere.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

. “I’m sure many readers could think of clever ways that this apparent mail-based phishing campaign could be made more effective or believable, such as including tiny USB drives instead of CDs, or at least a more personalized letter that doesn’t look like it was crafted by someone without a mastery of the English language.”

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Campaign attackers have been highly effective at fooling victims into revealing their logon credentials to copycat websites (phishing). To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. They explain the mechanics of attacks against (mostly) U.S.

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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

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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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. RT: As we started getting more and more people involved, we realized BEC was much broader than just phishing emails.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

As a portion of data belongs to the armed forces personnel and some government employees holding bureaucrat status- an enormous threat to national security as such, info is often used to launch phishing or other forms of social engineering attacks. Voter ID details weren’t leaked in the cyber-attack.

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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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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.”.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, 555,000 people had their details leaked in 2016 when Red Cross Australia blood donor information was accessed by someone without permission. Phishing, social engineering, blackmail, fraud: all of these things and more could be in the running. Under attack (again).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“The bad actor may have gained access via a phishing attack targeting your employees—or through a vulnerable third-party vendor attached to your company’s server.” ” E-skimming attacks were initially observed in the wild in 2016, their number rapidly increased since then. .” reads the alert 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. Early variants of ransomware merely locked individual computers, sometimes even without encryption, thus preventing single user access.

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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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Pen Test Partners

JUNE 19, 2024

CyberHUMINT is the process of gathering HUMINT with cyber techniques, most commonly social engineering. For example, using phishing to elicit information. Deception Using online social engineering to deceive victims threat actors can elicit information. My colleague Tom has spoken and written about this.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In March, Proofpoint published a blog post about a new spear-phishing campaign related to the war in Ukraine, tentatively attributed to the Russian-speaking actor UNC1151 (aka TA445 and Ghostwriter). Based on our telemetry, the actor initiated the attack by sending a spear-phishing email containing a macro-embedded Word document.

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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. Other phishing sites capture your 2FA code as you type it in.

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SecureList

JANUARY 23, 2023

The most common attack scenarios here are: attacks on employees (social engineering), attacks on IT infrastructure (DDoS), as well as attacks on critical infrastructure. Penetration from the perimeter requires less preparation than phishing, and rather old vulnerabilities are still exposed; we expect this tendency to continue in 2023.

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The Falcon's View

AUGUST 29, 2017

For those unfamiliar with Fogg's work, he started out doing research on Persuasive Technology back in the 90s, which has become the basis for most modern uses of technology to influence people (for example, use of Facebook user data to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election). Well, low-and-behold, it already exists!

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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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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few. For a preview, read on.

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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. . . In later rounds, the Trojan spread through spear-phishing emails with malicious Excel or Word files. How the infection first started is uncertain, but the usual suspect of phishing is suspected.

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