Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

As first reported here on July 16, prior to bitcoin scam messages being blasted out from such high-profile Twitter accounts @barackobama, @joebiden, @elonmusk and @billgates, several highly desirable short-character Twitter account names changed hands, including @L, @6 and @W. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Strengthening identity security Enforce phishing-resistant MFA for all privileged accounts. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2021

Social engineering tricks are constantly used by threat actors to gain access to an individual's account or even an entire organization's system. SecureWorld recently wrapped up one of its Remote Sessions to talk about the issue of social engineering, including best practices and how to avoid being fooled by a cyber criminal.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. ” Indeed, the theft of $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency in July 2018 was the impetus for my interview with REACT.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

I visited with Joe Sykora, vice president of worldwide channel development for Bitdefender, at Black Hat USA 2018 , and asked him to put the remarkable staying power of endpoint security in context. In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8 keep intensifying. “We

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. A common technique to achieve persistence is to leverage stolen account logons, especially ones that give access to privileged accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. million payments. ” reads the alert. The attacker stole $3.1 million with this attack.

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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. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Experts pointed out that Iranian threat actors operators are more patient and persistent with their social engineering campaigns, however, they continue to conduct aggressive brute force attacks on their targets. The CURIUM group leverage a network of fake social media accounts to trick the victims into installing malware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Suppose that, out of the blue, a Steam user tells you they’ve accidentally reported you for something you didn’t do, like making an illegal purchase, and that your Steam account is going to be suspended. And, based on its new latest iteration, it targets Steam users with a Discord account. What do you do? Via /u/Moritz_M05).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible. Who had access? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Israeli Defence Force (IDF) announced it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas militant group to hack soldiers’ mobile devices by posing as attractive women on social media and instant messaging apps ( i.e. Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram). We do not assess there is any significant breach of information,” said Lt. Jonathan Conricus.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. Account takeovers can be used to steal money at its very root; and fraudsters can also use this to access loyalty accounts for airlines, hotels, etc., Baber Amin , COO, Veridium : Amin.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A phishing campaign known to specifically target employees with access to their company's Facebook Business and Ads accounts has significantly widened its net and begun using a first-of-its-kind information-stealing malware to go after crypto wallets. Social engineering attacks and malware form the core of Ducktail's modus operandi.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

A SIM, or Subscriber Identity Module, is the little chip that goes inside a phone and ties that phone to a particular account at a particular mobile provider. If the phone provider believes you have a new phone, they can tell their system, this is the new SIM number that should be linked to your account. Sorry, couldn't resist!)

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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. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

According to Google’s report, these are the following exploits: CVE-2018-4344 internally referred to and publicly known as LightSpeed. Google also pulled the plug on Hermit’s Firebase account, which it uses to communicate with its C2.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. ” This claim was backed up by Grzegorz Milka, a Google software engineer who presented at the Usenix’s Enigma 2018 security conference.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The theft happened on January 2018, where Truglia and his co-conspirators targeted Terpin with a SIM swap attack. They hijacked Terpin's phone number and transferred cryptocurrency worth millions from Terpin's crypto wallet to an account Truglia controls. We don't just report on threats—we remove them.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The danger zone If you made an online purchase from some of the companies that are owned by JD Sports between November 2018 and October 2020, your data may have been accessed by individuals who didn't have permission to do so. JD Sports claims that the affected data was "limited" and did not include credit card details.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

based supplier of automated identity verification and digital account onboarding technologies. Just prior to this strategic repositioning, I met with Will LaSala, the company’s security evangelist, at RSA Conference 2018. •Announced the $55 million acquisition of Dealflo , a U.K.-based There are all kinds of other types of fraud.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Dragos, the Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2021

Abnormal Security Advanced email security 2018 San Francisco, CA $74M. Axis Security Zero trust cloud security 2018 San Mateo, CA $99.5M. Cape Privacy Encrypted learning privacy software 2018 New York, NY $25M. Deduce Account takeover tools 2019 New York, NY $7.3M. 10 Vendors Set to Innovate at 2018 RSA Conference.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. The new direct deposit information generally routes to a pre-paid card account.”

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

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. Require two-factor authentication for all accounts. government.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

As we look at the past year of 2018, it is all too easy to see that data breach or leak of sensitive information is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the top Cloud Data Breaches in 2018 and see how they were carried out, what data was leaked, and the weakness that was exposed by the breach.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

BlindEagle adds side-loading to its arsenal In August, we reported a new campaign by Blind Eagle, a threat actor that has been targeting government, finance, energy, oil and gas and other sectors in Latin America since at least 2018. This approach allows the group to more effectively deliver and disguise the malicious payload.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. million (2.96 million (2.96

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. Other interesting function is “j2aYhH”: Figure 8 – Accounts and emails stealing. This function searches for all email accounts registered on victim machine.

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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

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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When those users look up their tech troubles online, they’ll see results that display the scammers’ phone number, fooling them into calling what they think is a legitimate helpline, only to be led through a series of social engineering tricks to eventually hand over their money. OBN Brandon’s trick is almost always the same.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. Since 2018, attackers have employed very sophisticated techniques in their attacks. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start. ” Martire told me. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

In late 2018, the USPS Informed Delivery service was hit with a massive data breach, exposing 60 million records. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. This dynamic came into play at the U.S. Postal Service.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

. “For close to two years now, the Shlayer Trojan has been the most common threat on the macOS platform: in 2019, one in ten of our Mac security solutions encountered this malware at least once, and it accounts for almost 30% of all detections for this OS.” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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