Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Scattered Spider members are part of a broader cybercriminal community called “The Com,” where hackers brag about high-profile cyber thefts, typically initiated through social engineering tactics like phone, email, or SMS scams to gain access to corporate networks.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

The video game industry is soaring, not in the least thanks to the lockdowns, which forced people to look for new ways to entertain themselves and socialize. billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. billion in the first half of 2021.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

In Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) , although the category of “Social Engineering” has gone down from 2021 for “External” threats, the “Hacking” category from “External” threats for both the “Person and User Device” category has doubled from the previous year. Why is that?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CloudPassage’s 2021 AWS Cloud Security Report found that misconfiguration of cloud platforms (71 percent), exfiltration of sensitive data (59 percent), and insecure APIs (54 percent) are the top cloud security threats facing cybersecurity professionals. Read more: Best IAM Tools & Solutions for 2021. Train your staff.

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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. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock. And that was from just a few minutes of searching.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In Q3 2021 , online stores were in second place by share of recorded phishing attacks (20.63%). We analyzed the detections related to various online shopping platforms between January and September 2021; and the period from January to October 2021 for financial phishing. million in 2020 to 10 million in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

million of payments in 2021 and the first half of 2022,” the report summarized. From the report: -In 2021 and the first six months of 2022, PNC Bank indicated that its customers reported 10,683 cases of unauthorized payments totaling over $10.6 But Warren did get the requested information from PNC, Truist and U.S. ” Sen.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Korean based company that is into the business of perfume and clothes selling said that the data leak took place on August 8th, 2021 and was because of a cyber attack on a cloud based data storage firm. And usually details such as these are accessed by cyber criminals to launch social engineering driven attacks in the future.

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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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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s columnist, Marcus Kaber of Specops Software, writes that as much as the tech companies are pushing biometrics options like facial recognition, most enterprises still run on legacy passwords. Enterprise security and IT are mostly well aware of these many password-driven risks. Industry must double down on password protection.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In Jan 2021, Zscaler ThreatLabZ discovered new instances of the MINEBRIDGE remote-access Trojan (RAT) embedded in macro-based Word document files crafted to look like valid job resumes (CVs). Such lures are used as social engineering schemes by threat actors; in this case, the malware was targeted at security researchers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) shared the results of their analysis on the evolution of Iran-linked threat actors at the CyberWarCon 2021. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

Armed with an email and password—which are easily bought online— and the 2FA code, an attacker could take over the victim’s online accounts. SIM swapping can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt from its sources that the fraudulent access was possible as the hackers exploited a password of one of the employee having admin level privileges to the GoDaddy WordPress database.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It’s only February, and 2021 already is rapidly shaping up to be the year of supply-chain hacks. We may think we know how to recognize a social engineering attack or phishing email, but with the amount of information available to attackers through open platforms and stolen information, they may know far more about us than we realize.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. 2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022. With the rise in social media, criminals have more platforms with which to target potential phishing victims.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

CyberStrength knowledge assessment tool assesses user vulnerabilities beyond email and USB drives, covering critical security issues such as use of mobile devices, social engineering scams, passwords, and web browsing. The post Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees in 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2021

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Home routers are being hijacked using a vulnerability disclosed just 2 before Ransomware turncoat leaks Conti data, lifts the lid on the ransomware business Check your passwords!

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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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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. CVE-2021-30883 internally referred to as Clicked2, marked as being exploited in-the-wild by Apple in October 2021. CVE-2020-9907 internally referred to as AveCesare.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report states that phishing and social engineering are still the primary tactics used in successful cybersecurity breaches. Create training campaigns to cover essential cybersecurity topics including phishing, social engineering, passwords and more.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 15, 2022

Twilio breached after social engineering attack on employees. Education hammered by exploits and backdoors in 2021 and 2022. Slack flaw exposed users' hashed passwords. Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack? 6-point checklist for an anti-ransomware EDR. Summer of exploitation leads to healthcare under fire. Update now!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses. since Q3 of 2007. Business targets.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. Stolen Credentials.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2022

By the start of 2021, consumers had become accustomed to conducting much of their personal business online, from shopping and banking to paying taxes, taking classes, holding family gatherings, and conducting tele-health visits with their doctors. in 2021 1 , even after the massive, pandemic-fueled growth of 31.8% According to the U.S.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For these purposes, we analyzed threat statistics from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a system for processing anonymized cyberthreat-related data shared voluntarily by Kaspersky users, for the period between January 2021 and June 2022. Top game titles by number of related threats.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Gox exchange and operating BTC-e Japanese Pharmaceutical giant Eisai hit by a ransomware attack Clop ransomware gang was testing MOVEit Transfer bug since 2021 Stealth Soldier backdoor used is targeted espionage attacks in Libya Researchers published PoC exploit code for actively exploited Windows elevation of privilege issue Experts detail a new Kimsuky (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. In February 2021, several U.S. SolarWinds employees claim that the attack resulted from a weak password that an intern had used – “solarwinds123”. Weak passwords are the easiest way hackers can hack into a system.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I needed a password eight characters long so I picked SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarves. Normal people use their children's names to set their email passwords. Elon Musk uses his email password (X Æ A-12) to name his baby. Elon Musk uses his email password (X Æ A-12) to name his baby. Social engineers! A TORtoise.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

This included resetting the employee’s password for the email account where unauthorized activity was detected. Maybe they dredged up specific background information on the affected employee via social networking, LinkedIn, or even the company website. This attack may reveal itself to be something as basic as an easy to guess password.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. Phishing, Social Engineering are Still Problems. Best Antivirus Software for 2021.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. For example, from January to December 2021, Microsoft detected a jaw-dropping 25.6 billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. In July 2021, Twitter disclosed in its transparency report that only 2.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. It is commonly referred to as a way to confirm a user’s identity when passwords are not enough. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed.

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