Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Our investigation has found a single account had been compromised, granting limited access. Microsoft says LAPSUS$ — which it boringly calls “ DEV-0537 ” — mostly gains illicit access to targets via “social engineering.” “No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020. ” [Side note: It may be little more than a coincidence, but my PayPal account was hacked in Dec. military members and government employees.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. He will also earn credit for the 229 days that he has already spent in jail.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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SecureList

JULY 21, 2021

This article contains some analytical findings from Managed Detection and Response (MDR) operations during Q4 2020. In Q4 2020, the average number of collected raw events from one host was around 15 000. Social engineering. What is Kaspersky MDR. Data processing pipeline and security operations. DDOS/DOS with impact.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a notification warning of ongoing vishing attacks attempting to steal corporate accounts. ” Once gained access to the network, crooks expand their network access, for example, escalating privileges of the compromised employees’ accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. This rapid growth owes a lot to the surge in mobile gaming and focus on social interaction during the pandemic. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yandex, a European multinational technology firm best known for being the most-used search engine in Russia, has revealed it had a security breach, leading to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email accounts. The post Yandex sysadmin caught selling access to email accounts appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PoS terminals are attacked just as often: few people give a thought to the fact that these machines need protection, as they hold the key to the bank accounts of hundreds of customers. We observed the threat landscape of ATM/PoS malware attacks and how it changed in 2020-2022. Methodology. Key findings.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In many cases, the phony profiles spoofed chief information security officers at major corporations , and some attracted quite a few connections before their accounts were terminated. which owns LinkedIn, said in September 2022 that it had detected a wide range of social engineering campaigns using a proliferation of phony LinkedIn accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2020 alone, we’ve seen ransomware attacks bring the operations of international corporations and high-powered law firms to a standstill. Since email addresses and phone numbers are sensitive personal information that can be used in social engineering, you may want to consider the adoption of these email security tips.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

The CFO commonly carries out such tasks and arranges a wire transfer using the account information provided on the invoice. In actuality, the request is coming from a BEC fraud ring, and the payment details direct the funds to an account controlled by the attackers. billion in annual losses during 2020, resulting from 19,369 incidents.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to investigators, he wrote the following in April 2020 as he tried to connect with a foreign nation: “I apologize for this poor translation into your language. By the end of 2020, the FBI was looking at it. The FBI utilized a ProtonMail account utilizing the pseudo name BOB. Here is how the scheme started. Government.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. The PMI portion forms part of each new meeting URL created by that account, such as: zoom.us/j/5551112222

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

According to DBIR, social engineering and basic web application attacks account for over 50% of all incidents of breaches. When we thought about 2020, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under system intrusion). What did “the internet” think was causing breaches in 2020?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA)—working alongside the US Secret Service, Homeland Security, the FBI, Europol, and the District Attorney’s Office of Santa Clara California—spearheaded the arrest of eight British citizens in the UK and Scotland, aged between 18 to 26, for a string of SIM swapping attacks that occurred in 2020.

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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 Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“We’re tracking an active credential phishing attack targeting enterprises that uses multiple sophisticated methods for defense evasion and social engineering,” reads a message published by Microsoft via Twitter. pic.twitter.com/YpUVEfmlUH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

A screen shot from a user account at “Snowden,” a long-running reshipping mule service. It stands to reason that the virus outbreak might depress cybercriminal demand for “dumps,” or stolen account data that can be used to create physical counterfeit credit cards.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack? ] Now, the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. From there, it’s possible to find devices with privileged accounts and take the attack further. Ransomware?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability. Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The nation-state group is using the compromised accounts to target contacts in the victims’ address books. reads a translation of the message.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

According to the report , in 2020 the IC3 received 19,369 business email compromise (BEC) / email account compromise (EAC) complaints “with adjusted losses of over $1.8 million in 2020. Losses registered in 2020 totaled $4.2 On the ransomware front, the IC3 received 2,474 complaints with adjusted losses of over $29.1

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

They claimed it was not them who was responsible for uploading malicious versions of Barcode Scanner , package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner, but an account named “The space team.” Below we have the original message from LavaBird from February 10, 2020. Also, we reported that account and app to Google.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

CEO Colin Bastable at RSA 2020. This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. BEC campaigns accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses reported to the FBI over a three year period.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 16, 2021

consumers experienced identity theft between 2019 and 2020. the unauthorized use of one’s identity to apply for an account), and 38% experienced account takeover (i.e., unauthorized access to a consumer’s existing account). Developed by Aite Group and underwritten by GIACT, the study found that 47% of U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These OTPs, used in multi-factor authentication, allowed criminals to bypass security and access victims’ bank accounts to steal funds. 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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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