Dark Reading

MAY 8, 2019

Criminals are also going after cloud-based email accounts, according to Verizon's '2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.'

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Business email compromise scheme and social engineering. Social engineering—in person—was the next part of the scheme. The funds included those from a 2019 North Korean-perpetrated cyber-heist of a Maltese bank. Those are some of the highlights, now let's look at a few specifics. Too many do.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

This sort of information would no doubt be of interest to scammers seeking to conduct social engineering attacks against Sprint employees as way to perpetrate other types of fraud, including unauthorized SIM swaps or in gleaning more account information from targeted customers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged that “a small number” of customer domain names had been modified after a “limited” number of GoDaddy employees fell for a social engineering scam. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

million in illicit earnings since its emergence in 2019. Classiscam campaigns initially started out on classified sites, on which scammers placed fake advertisements and used social engineering techniques to convince users to pay for goods by transferring money to bank cards," Group-IB said in a new report.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

Between 2015 and 2019, Ferizi was imprisoned at a facility in Illinois that housed several other notable convicts. 2015 by criminals who social engineered PayPal employees over the phone into changing my password and bypassing multi-factor authentication. Junaid Hussain’s Twitter profile photo.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that the Shlayer malware was the most widespread macOS threat in 2019. According to Kaspersky, in 2019, one in ten of our Mac security solutions encountered this malware at least once. The post Which was the most common threat to macOS devices in 2019? up to 10.14.3.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack. Any actions done by the threat actor have been reverted and the impacted customers have been notified. We have taken steps across our technology, processes and employee education, to help prevent these types of attacks in the future.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It affects Microsoft Windows 10 and later, as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and subsequent versions. “This vulnerability can be exploited locally, with low complexity and without needing high-level privileges or user interaction,” said Mike Walters , president and co-founder of the security firm Action1.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering. Their ransom demands range from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, often leveraging encrypted email services like ProtonMail, Tutanota, and Skiff for communication. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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SiteLock

APRIL 8, 2021

Ever been targeted by a social engineering attack? According to a 2019 report, 99% of cyberattacks use social engineering techniques to trick users into installing malware. The post 4 Of The Most Common Forms Of Social Engineering Used By Hackers appeared first on The SiteLock Blog.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Sodinokibi was discovered in 2019 and is highly evasive. The group uses a special social engineering move as the ones who spread the […]. REvil ransomware has fully returned and is attacking new victims and publishing stolen files on a data leak site.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. ” states HaveIBeenPwned.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. The scam is frequently carried out when a criminal compromises legitimate business e-mail accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques. Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. BEC is the costliest crime for businesses.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

” Microsoft says the flaw affects Windows 10 and Windows 11 , as well as Server 2019 and Server 2022. “Exploitation would require social engineering to entice a victim to open an attachment or visit a malicious website,” he said. “Test and deploy this patch quickly.” ” Quickly indeed. .”

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The cyber espionage threat actor tracked as Earth Kitsune has been observed deploying a new backdoor called WhiskerSpy as part of a social engineering campaign. Earth Kitsune, active since at least 2019, is known to primarily target individuals interested in North Korea with self-developed malware such as dneSpy and agfSpy.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. Social engineering trigger While no fancy malware is needed to pull off a BEC scam, technology does come into play. These are soft targets,” he says. It’s simple fraud.”

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Just as an uninformed homeowner might misuse pest spray, an untrained employee is more likely to fall victim to phishing or social engineering attacks. CISO takeaway: Cybersecurity awareness training is the "instruction manual" for your organization. About Pestie: I swear by it and am nearing the end of year two as a customer.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

The Russia-linked APT group Turla employed two new pieces of malware in attacks launched over a period of roughly two months in the fall of 2019. The Russia-linked APT group Turla employed two new pieces of malware in attacks launched over a period of roughly two months in the fall of 2019. com / wp -includes/data_from_db_top [. ]

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 29, 2021

Discovered in April 2019, Revil, also known as Sodinokibi, is a highly evasive and upgraded ransomware, which uses a special social engineering move – the ones who spread it threaten to double the ransom if […].

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

ISO 22301:2019 is a leading framework here. Social engineering techniques enable them to bypass technical security measures effectively. Are there internal employees with the necessary expertise, or will external specialists need to be engaged? However, experts point out that attackers heavily rely on phishing email campaigns.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

User data appears to have been scraped in 2019 by malicious actors exploiting a vulnerability in the platform. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019,” Liz Bourgeois, Facebook’s Director of Strategic Response Communications, said in a tweet.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“This combination suggests that the exploit requires a social engineering element, and would likely be seen in initial infections using attacks like MalDocs or LNK files.” . “What actions are required is not clear; however, we do know that exploitation requires an authenticated user level of access,” Breen said.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the United States, the FBI report indicates that there was a 69% increase in total complaints in comparison with 2019. Deepfakes, mis and disinformation threaten to disrupt the social tissue of modern democracies by damaging the trust people place on institutions, each other and science. Ransomware cases increase.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. Some reports say the data was scraped in 2019, others talk about early 2020. If you are, or were, a Facebook user this may very well concern you.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

In a direct message exchange on OGUsers from November 2019, lol is asked for help from another OGUser member whose Twitter account had been suspended for abuse. Twitter added that it is working with law enforcement and is rolling out additional company-wide training to guard against social engineering tactics.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2022

Alethe Denis was on maternity leave when she decided to participate in DEF CON's Social Engineering Capture the Flag competition in 2019. She took her three-month-old daughter and her husband to Las Vegas and planned the trip to the finest detail. Things could have gone wildly wrong," Denis says. "It

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier. SIM swapping, also known as SIM jacking, is the act of illegally taking over a target’s cell phone number.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and uses them as Proxy C2 servers. ” reads the report. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers explore the insecure world of the subdomain (Source: Can i take your subdomain) Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments (Source: The Register) How facial recognition solutions can safeguard the hybrid workplace (Source: Help Net Security) Capital One hacker faces fresh charges for 2019 hacking spree (Source: (..)

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Many of these attacks prey upon human nature by using social engineering tactics to trick a user into inadvertently allowing ransomware onto their system, under the guise of something legitimate. 5 Main Sources in 2019 first appeared on SpinOne. How Do You Get Ransomware: Key Points So, where do you get ransomware from?

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Cybercriminals paid a monthly subscription fee to OTP.Agency, which provided tools for socially engineering victims and tricked them into revealing one-time passcodes or personal information. “Launched in November 2019, OTP Agency was a service for intercepting one-time passcodes needed to log in to various websites.”

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The stolen data is only worth something in so far as it can be used to extract money from somebody, so we expect it will be used in social engineering attacks, like scams and phishing. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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Architect Security

AUGUST 4, 2019

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2022

more than in 2019 while 60.2% As per an article by The Hindu, 50,035 cases of cybercrime were reported in 2020, 11.8% of cybercrimes were of fraud. Every organization or institution has some sort of information or data that needs to be protected. Organizations invest large sums of money to secure that information and data. […].

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