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Doxing in the corporate sector

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For example, in July of 2017, the data of 14 million Verizon users was breached due to incorrectly configured buckets. During these conversations, cybercriminals employed social engineering techniques to gain access not only to the internal network of the company, but also to tools that enabled them to manage Twitter user accounts.

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Spam and phishing in 2022

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The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. The cybercrooks might also use the data to contact their victims later, staging a more convincing swindle. In 2022, we saw an evolution of malicious emails masquerading as business correspondence.

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