CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A Greece-based company that owns Cosmote and OTE was slapped with a €9 million penalty for failing to inform its customers that their data was stolen in a sophisticated cyber attack that occurred in 2020. Security analysts claim that often such info is reused in identity theft attacks that have risen at an enormous rate since March 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers. 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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Details are in that the info belongs to all those customers who booked their orders on the platform from the past few years(say between Nov’18 to Oct’2020) and might include sensitive details of half of the affected consumers.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2020, customers who had already endured the fallout from the breach were targeted once again, in new blackmail campaigns. If users can’t rely on companies to keep their data safe, it might be time to reassess online behaviors by limiting the information shared with social media platforms.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Here is the report's opening paragraph: "In 2020, while the American public was focused on protecting our families from a global pandemic and helping others in need, cyber criminals took advantage of an opportunity to profit from our dependence on technology to go on an Internet crime spree. Business Email Compromise 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This is a huge leak even by today’s standards, with an average of 7 million records being exposed daily in 2020. . They can then conduct elaborate phishing and social engineering attacks to gain access to the victims’ accounts on other digital services such as entertainment and shopping platforms or even online banking.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

The lurking menace of social engineering. There’s also another issue: data stolen in breaches like this can be used for future social engineering attacks. As the breach notice notes: We do not have any evidence of identity theft or misuse of protected health information as a result of this incident.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Such information steal often leads to identity thefts or phishing attacks and so if the data falls into the wrong hands, then all those who applied to the ‘France Visas’ website in the past few weeks might fall prey to social engineering attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Leaked data contained information about more than 15,000 clients of Inova, people who had accidents and hired Inova between the start of 2018 and end of summer 2020. Identity theft. With large amounts of identity information being leaked about the clients in this breach, criminals can use it for identity theft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. I’m going to speculate that the sudden shift to work-from-home in 2020 has led to quick decisions to meet immediate needs.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. A 21 year old man named David Smith, from Connecticut, allegedly figured out a way to extract large quantities of cash from drivers with a scam stretching back to 2020.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the pandemic struck, online bad actors took it as an opportunity to double-down on their attacks through ransomware, malware, and social engineering. With 2020 being the worst year on record in terms of files exposed in data breaches , a thorough security approach is necessary to combat modern dangers.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Another report from The Identity Theft Resource Center states that the number of security compromises increased more than 68% in 2021, setting a new record. In 2020, Keyavi unveiled breakthrough technology that is shattering antiquated, preconceived IT notions about data security. million per incident.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 3, 2024

TikTok Account Takeover (2020) In 2020, researchers found a zero-day exploit in TikTok that allowed attackers to take over user accounts. Financial Loss: Some users faced fraud or identity theft due to stolen account information. The exploit went undetected for over a year before Facebook discovered it.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Among these experienced affiliates is the “Scattered Spider” group, known for its custom tools and advanced social engineering skills, which helped RansomHub become the most active ransomware group in Q3 2024 (see Figure 1).

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Among these experienced affiliates is the “Scattered Spider” group, known for its custom tools and advanced social engineering skills, which helped RansomHub become the most active ransomware group in Q3 2024 (see Figure 1).

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

This was exactly the technique used for the Twitter hack in the summer of 2020. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 31, 2020. Identity theft. One result of doxing aimed at an individual employee may also be theft of their identity. Message from Twitter Support regarding the incident.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Throughout 2022, LAPSUS$ would hack and social engineer their way into some of the world’s biggest technology companies , including EA Games, Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta , Samsung , and T-Mobile. ” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

In fact, the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2020 Internet Crime Report , refers to what is happening as an “ Internet crime spree.” billion people were active internet users as of October 2020. “Mobile phishing increases more than 300% as 2020 chaos continues.” Social Security number.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. Hacked social media accounts’ prices are decreasing across all platforms. Preventing Identity Theft. But while the world is “burning,” the world’s hackers are having a picnic, and hardly anybody is paying any attention. Keeping yourself safe is not rocket science.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. This is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Ransomware. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Ransomware. Less Common Types of Malware.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

And the collected PII can be used to launch other social engineering attacks or identity theft. Social media platforms have faced immense criticism, as they have been used to spread misinformation about important political topics, such as the 2020 U.S. See the original report for more information.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. Two in five small and medium businesses were impacted by ransomware in 2020. Spear Phishing.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. At the same time, the COVID-19 topic, popular with cybercriminals in 2020 and 2021, but already beginning to wane in 2022, will finally cease to be relevant and will be replaced by more pressing global issues.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The cybersecurity industry faced a challenging combination of new and familiar challenges in 2020. In 2020, hackers actively exploited the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the resulting unemployment. 2020 saw a record number of ransomware attacks, and we can expect more of the same in 2021. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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