Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

The experts first discovered the malware in June 2018, but it has been available since 2014, when they observed threat actors spreading it via a Microsoft Word document containing an auto-executable malicious VBA Macro. “When combined with timely social engineering lures, these non-sophisticated attacks continue to be successful.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. 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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The malevolent seven: ENISA report identifies prime cybersecurity threats Ransomware; malware; social engineering; threats against data; threats against availability (denial of service); information manipulation and interference; and supply chain attacks. Links we liked NIST updates and simplifies longstanding password guidelines.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The hacked forum database shows a user “tankska” registered on OGUsers back in July 2018, but only made one post asking about the price of an older Twitter account for sale. youth whose mom turned him in to the local police in February 2018 when she overheard him talking on the phone and pretending to be an AT&T employee.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In late September 2018, the REACT Task Force spearheaded an investigation that led to the arrest of two Missouri men — both in their early 20s — who are accused of conducting SIM swaps to steal $14 million from a cryptocurrency company based in San Jose, Calif. . million customers.

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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. If your email happens to be among those leaked, we strongly recommend that you immediately change your email password. Who had access?

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Impacted T-Mobile customers are recommended to change their password, PIN, and security questions. Such kind of info could be used by hackers in social engineering attack against T-Mobile’s customer support employees with the intent of stealing the victim’s phone number.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

Just prior to this strategic repositioning, I met with Will LaSala, the company’s security evangelist, at RSA Conference 2018. No one liked the use case where you typed in a password from a hardware dongle into your mobile application. -based supplier of automated identity verification and digital account onboarding technologies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

According to a study conducted by se-curity firm Mandiant, the group has been in operation since 2018 and has now been tasked with carrying out both espionage and financially motivated attacks such as credential harvesting and social engineering.

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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. Microsoft added that password spray attacks on Office 365 accounts with multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled failed.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

It can read SMS and chat messages, view passwords, intercept calls, record calls and ambient audio, redirect calls, and pinpoint precise locations of victims. According to Google’s report, these are the following exploits: CVE-2018-4344 internally referred to and publicly known as LightSpeed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The second half of 2018 saw a drop in the number of malicious programs downloaded via browsers reaching its minimum at less than 5%, while in the first half of 2019 only every 19 th download was initiated via means other than email. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects.

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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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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

Use a password vault, avoiding password reuse. 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. Change default passwords for devices and apps. government.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers.

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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. The affected data is limited.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Look for unusual activity on your phone and requests for password resets you’re not expecting. Cybercriminals capture authentication information, and they are often using social engineering tactics to target key employees and executives, putting human capital at major risk.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Like Steam phishing campaigns, this particular Steam scam—referred to loosely as the “I accidentally reported you” or “I accidentally reported your account” scam—has been coming and going since initial reports of it emerged in late 2018. Never give anybody your Steam Guard password.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority. Hackers are well aware of this and collect passwords from credential dumps or the dark web. million to $4.24

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. Marriott announces it in late 2018. . presidential election.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This allowed them to access many apps and ask for password resets, which often confirm the request is intended for the correct user by sending a "Two Factor Authentication" request in the form of an SMS message. Some crypto currency exchanges use an even stronger method, of requiring confirmation both by an SMS to the phone and by email.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2022

From there, the attacker was able to grab service/default passwords via a splash of social engineering. Consider the chaos generated back in 2018 when an alert in Hawaii regarding an incoming missile was sent in error. What would you send to everyone in the United States? thugcrowd pic.twitter.com/jkQwfmPem6.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The APT group RedCurl, discovered by Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts, has been active since at least 2018. The earliest known RedCurl attack dates back to May 2018. To do so, RedCurl uses the LaZagne tool, which extracts passwords from memory and from files saved in the victim’s web browser. From Russia to Canada.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. 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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

According to Group-IB’s annual “ 2018 H i-Tech Crime Trends ” report, the estimated damage caused by targeted attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and the first three quarters of 2018 amounted to $877 million. Going forward, the list of exchanges where users are eligible for insurance is expected to expand.

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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. These documents are in fact password-protected ZIP or other archives.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? If your email happens to be among those leaked, immediately change your email password. Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

They asked us to download TeamViewer and share the ID and password so they could connect. They typically use the SysKey Windows utility to put a password that only they know. Although this company was incorporated in 2018, the scammers have been active since at least 2015 and used several different domain names and identities.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2023

CNBC wrote about the phenonmenon of virtual kidnappings in 2018, before the current AI boom. The basics remain the same, and social engineering is where a lot of these attacks take shape. Consider a password that family members can use to confirm they actually are in danger. Make your data private. A plausible alert.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

Forgotten passwords will tie up support’s time, for sure. Did the attacker bypass text-based 2FA by social engineering the mobile provider? In 2018, they were offering backpack upgrades for anybody using authentication and their SMS Protect service. Square Enix are big on One Time Passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Rules with teeth This fast-tracking of Middle East cybersecurity regulations unfolded as the European Union was putting the finishing touches on its tough new data privacy and data handling rules, with enforcement teeth , set forth in GDPR, which took effect in May 2018. Add to that widespread warnings to use social media circumspectly.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Recognize and avoid social engineering scams by educating yourself on common tactics. Social Engineering Scams : Manipulative tactics are employed to deceive investors into divulging confidential information or making unwise investments. Prevent insider threats with strong access controls and employee monitoring.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first discovered this malware in 2018, together with the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability. Lazarus Group delivered additional malware such as a keylogger and password-dumping tool to collect more information. SoleDragon is complex malware used by the SilentBreak threat group. Final thoughts.

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