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Social Engineering Attacks Target Morgan Stanley Client Accounts

Heimadal Security

A new wave of social engineering attacks has been targeting Morgan Stanley client accounts as Morgan Stanley’s wealth and asset management subsidiary claims. The post Social Engineering Attacks Target Morgan Stanley Client Accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit

Krebs on Security

BeyondTrust’s security team detected that someone was trying to use an Okta account assigned to one of their engineers to create an all-powerful administrator account within their Okta environment. ET: BeyondTrust has published a blog post about their findings. He said that on Oct 2., But she said that by Oct.

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MailChimp Suffers Data Breach Due to Social Engineering Attack

Heimadal Security

MailChimp announced it has been victim to a social engineering attack that threat actors successfully performed on the company`s employees and contractors. Hackers managed to obtain employee credentials and gain access to an internal customer support and account administration tool. The attack affected the data of 133 customers.

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Social Engineering 101: What It Is & How to Safeguard Your Organization

Duo's Security Blog

A few days later, John finds himself locked out of his account, and quickly learns that the password reset link he clicked earlier did not come from his company. He took the steps needed to keep his account safe by following the directions from his IT team. What is social engineering? John is a diligent employee.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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What Are Social Engineering Scams?

Identity IQ

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. In this scheme, scammers gain unauthorized access to a victim’s account and exploit it for malicious purposes.

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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Krebs on Security

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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