Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2022

Phishing reached an all-time high in the first quarter of 2022. The post Phishing Reached All-Time High: Social Engineering News appeared first on Security Boulevard. To clarify what this means, in the first quarter […].

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Phishing scams continue to top the list of cybercrimes. Unfortunately, it’s likely 2022 will continue this trend as these types of social engineering attacks become more sophisticated. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. have experienced a successful phishing.

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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. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. In January 2024, U.S.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 23, 2023

A threat actor known as Muddled Libra is targeting the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry with persistent attacks that leverage advanced social engineering ploys to gain initial access.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2023

Both Staffin and his employer were victims of business email compromise (BEC) , also known as CEO fraud, a type of social engineering attack. Social engineering attacks are cyberattacks where a criminal tricks a victim into doing something against their interests, such as revealing sensitive information of making a bank transfer.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2023

In its H1 2023 Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights , Perception Point reported an overall increase in social engineering attacks, including a 20% growth in the prevalence of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks along with a 41% surge in phishing attacks from H2 2022 to H1 2023.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The 2022 Human-Centric Cybersecurity Report Project brought together postgraduate students from across Canada to work with partners from both private industry and the public sector to produce a report looking at wicked cybersecurity problems through a trans-disciplinary lens. And I'm not talking about the shadowy hackers in hoodies.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Popular email marketing service MailChimp recently fell victim to another data breach, this time caused by a successful social engineering attack on its employees and contractors. Such information could be exploited by threat actors in phishing attacks.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. The messages began at 2022-07-20 22:50 UTC.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“Someone was trying to phish employee credentials, and they were good at it,” Wired reported. ” Twitter revealed that a key tactic of the group was “phone spear phishing” (a.k.a. “voice phishing” a.k.a. “vishing”).

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Other Ways Threat Actors Exploit Human Behaviour In addition to fatigue attacks, malefactors weaponise social engineering. MFA fatigue is often coupled with social engineeringan attacker might contact the victim, masquerading as IT support, and advise them to approve the prompt to “resolve an issue.”

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. In a 2022 report they state that they have “received multiple reports of cyber criminals increasingly targeting healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments.” So, what exactly is social engineering?

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

According to a 2023 study by Sumsub , deepfake fraud attempts increased by 704% between 2022 and 2023. Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. Trezor WARNING: Elaborate Phishing attack. pic.twitter.com/BQSB2uV1JW — Life in DeFi (@lifeindefi) April 3, 2022. We have managed to take the phishing domain offline.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Phishing attacks continue to be one of the most significant threats facing organizations today. As businesses increasingly rely on digital communication channels, cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in email, SMS, and voice communications to launch sophisticated phishing attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2023

Satnam Narang at Tenable notes that CVE-2023-28252 is also the second CLFS zero-day disclosed to Microsoft by researchers from Mandiant and DBAPPSecurity ( CVE-2022-37969 ), though it is unclear if both of these discoveries are related to the same attacker.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In some phishing attacks, attackers frequently masked malicious QR codes as legitimate Signal resources, such as group invites, security alerts, or as legitimate device pairing instructions from the Signal website. ” continues the report. ” concludes the report. ” concludes the report.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2023

United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with two other agencies; National Security Agency (NSA) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have issued a warning to federal agencies against a phishing scam taking place through Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) Software.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 What is phishing? This is part of what makes phishing attacks so dangerous.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When ChatGPT was unveiled to the public in late 2022, security experts looked on with cautious optimism, excited about the new technology but concerned about its use in cyberattacks. The generative AI non-revolution The November 2022 launch of ChatGPT ushered forth a new relationship with our computers. Uhh, again, that is.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 2, 2022

Details of a new nation-state sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on European governmental entities in what's seen as an attempt to obtain intelligence on refugee and supply movement in the region.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Human-driven targeted attacks accounted for 43% of high-severity incidents 74% more than in 2023 and 43% more than in 2022. User Execution and Phishing remain top threats. User Execution and Phishing techniques ranked again in the top three threats, with nearly 5% of high-severity incidents involving successful social engineering.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022. This article focuses on the top five attack vectors organizations should look out for and defend against in 2022. Stolen Credentials. Conclusion.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this research, we analyze various types of threats, such as financial malware and phishing pages mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms, banking and payment systems, and discuss recent trends. Over the first ten months of 2022, Kaspersky prevented 38,596,555 financial phishing attacks. Methodology. Key findings.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

Since May 2022, ThreatLabz has been closely monitoring the activities of a threat actor which targets users in various US-based organizations with malicious voicemail-notification-themed emails in an attempt to steal their Office365 and Outlook credentials. Key points. The campaign is active at the time of publishing this report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

. “In the Florida case, Urban was accused of stealing at least $800,000 in cryptocurrency from five different victims between August 2022 and March 2023.” Urban admitted to exporting stolen data and helping run sophisticated phishing and fraud operations across multiple states. In January 2024, U.S. In January 2024, U.S.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. The phishing kit market. Non-mobile statistics. Mobile statistics. Targeted attacks.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2022

The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report is out. Several things stand out in the 2022 report: Ransomware challenges continue to mount — “Ransomware’s heyday continues, and is present in almost 70% of malware breaches this year.” “Actor Motives: Financial (89%), Espionage (11%).”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As we near the end of 2022, IT professionals look back at one of the worst years on record for incidents. During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand. In 2022 we witnessed several third-party supply chain breaches. IoT/OT and DoS attack vectors were key areas in 2022 for an attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. 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. ua-passport[.]space space and id[.]bigmir[.]space.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from March to June, Q2, 2022. The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from March to June, Q2, 2022. Phishing and Malware Q2 2022. in Q1 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Phishing emails continue to plague organizations and their users. No matter how many staff training sessions and security tools IT throws at the phishing problem, a certain percentage of users continues to click on their malicious links and attachments or approve their bogus payment requests. What is the answer? Leveraging AI/ML.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and the muPDF/Subliminal Recording software installer have been backdoored to perform a wide range of social engineering campaigns that started in April 2022. They used LinkedIn to connect with the victims and gain their trust. Also read: How Hackers Evade Detection.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

This month’s relatively light patch load has another added bonus for system administrators everywhere: It appears to be the first Patch Tuesday since March 2022 that isn’t marred by the active exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s products. Microsoft Corp.

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