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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering. Key findings from the advisory The advisory highlights the rapid and efficient attack lifecycle of Ghost ransomware, with some incidents seeing full encryption within a single day.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

Editor's note: This article, originally published on August 7, 2018, has been updated to include new information on phishing kit features. Phishing is a social attack, directly related to social engineering. Commonly centered around email, criminals use phishing to obtain access or information.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

SafetyDetectives reports the average cost of a ransomware-caused downtime incident has risen from $46,800 in 2018, to $141,000 in 2019, to $283,800 in 2020. My rough scribble of how ransomware sophistication surpassed our defensive capabilities somewhere around 2018. Nowhere near fast enough.

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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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Dark Reading

AUGUST 13, 2018

Experts in deception shared tricks of the trade and showed their skills at Black Hat and DEF CON 2018.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Since 2018, one of the Lazarus Group’s tactics has been to disguse AppleJeus malware as cryptocurrency trading platforms for both Windows and Mac. Victims are lured into downloading the malware with a variety of social engineering tactics, including spearphishing. Spearphishing campaigns.

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Architect Security

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The first published recording of “Social Engineering At Work – How to use positive influence to gain management buy-in for anything“ Recorded at DerbyCon 2018, also presented at Social Engineering Rhode Island, GRRCon, CircleCityCon, BSM, etc.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

Marriott International has confirmed that it was victim to another data breach, its third since 2018, as an anonymous group of threat actors says it was able to successfully exfiltrate 20 GB of data, which includes credit card and other confidential information. Social engineering. Fool me three times and, well.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

However, another team that security researchers call APT43, Kimsuky, or Thallium has been carrying out cyberespionage and cybercrime operations at the behest of the North Korean government since at least 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? Social engineering schemes range from covert to obvious. OnePercent Group attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

. “Security awareness training can also help prevent local malware or social engineering attacks. Finally, you may want to step up auditing of any affected systems for signs of infection.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 17, 2024

First discovered in 2018, it has been used to carry out large-scale ATM cash-out operations. Train Employees Educating employees about phishing and social engineering tactics can reduce the likelihood of attackers gaining initial access to networks. Provide incentives for adopting advanced security technologies.

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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

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

In a typical attack, boobytrapped emails would be sent to targeted companies posing as legitimate communications through cunning use of social engineering. High profile targets of the FIN7 group included the likes of Lord & Taylor, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-16962 , was patched months ago but publicly disclosed only yesterday. The flaw is difficult to trigger, it is exploitable only by a local attacker that is logged into a vulnerable Mac system or by tricking an already logged-in user into opening an exploit through social engineering.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

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. In May 2018, a flaw in T-Mobile’s website allowed anyone to access the personal account details of any customer by providing their mobile number.

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Group-IB has estimated that crypto exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks between 2017 and 2018. This data was included in the annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, presented by Group-IB CTO, Dmitry Volkov, at the sixth international Cyber?rimeCon rimeCon conference.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 19, 2021

Typically, the FIN7 gang sent out carefully-crafted emails that posed as legitimate business communications and used social engineering techniques to trick recipients into clicking on the malicious attachments. FIN7’s high profile targets included the likes of Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 7, 2019

Human fallibility is the reason social engineering has proven to be so effective – and why phishing persists. Consider these metrics from messaging security firm Proofpoint : •Email-based corporate credential phishing attacks quadrupled in Q3 2018 vs. the previous quarter. Cyber criminals get this.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. This time around, if you thought ransomware and phishing should have been at the top (these fall under System Intrusion and Social Engineering ) you would have been right! We used that as our baseline.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

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. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls.

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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

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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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. You’re still getting the social engineering of someone sending a text message that you’ve never heard of. The mobile banking app is used as a delivery mechanism.

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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. Hermit also roots all infected Android devices, giving itself deeper access to phone features and user data.

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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. Who had access?

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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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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. Ponemon’s 2018 State of Endpoint Security Risk study , for instances, predicts 38% of targeted attacks will use fileless techniques in 2019, up from 35% in 2018 and 30% in 2017.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2018, Uber had to pay a high price of $148 million for exposing the personal information of 57 million people worldwide – including driver’s license information – after trying to pay the ransom and keep things quiet. Keeping crucial.env files secure is essential, as they could be used to compromise services and applications.

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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. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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