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. ua-passport[.]space

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids). The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an adaptive phishing campaign, attackers gather specific information about victims through various sources, such as social media, public websites, and previous data breaches. One of the key elements of these campaigns is social engineering, which aims to psychologically manipulate victims.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Category News, Social Engineering. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. IHG’s booking sites and apps were unavailable for several days as a result. Risk Level. Several large companies were hacked in the first half of September. The common theme?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

Grimes has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 30 years, authoring 13 books and more than 1,300 articles. These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. Social engineering has its tells, though. What is phishing?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

You’re given a link to a booking form for more information, and asked for payment via PayPal or similar methods. The fake organisers create brand new Facebook accounts, and often reuse the same name across muliple profiles. A fake Facebook account messaged people asking them to pay for tickets via a registration link.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42 focuses on highly targeted spear-phishing and social engineering techniques, its operations broadly fall into three categories, credential harvesting, surveillance operations, and malware deployment. They have also previously targeted human rights activists, the media sector, and interfered with the US presidential elections.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 18, 2023

The risk of this has increased since Twitter started charging for blue checkmarks, as many legitimate accounts now sport no visible means of authentication. With popular airline easyJet cancelling 1,700 flights between July and September due to air traffic control delays, fraudsters have been busy creating fake support accounts.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, easy to remember and reused passwords are weak passwords that can easily be cracked and leveraged across accounts. This process only needs to be set up once and will ensure your accounts are much more secure. Use Multifactor Authentication (MFA) You can view Multifactor Authentication as a secondary defense for your accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

The hackers gained access to Blue Bear , a cloud school accounting software customized especially for K-12 schools and districts to help manage and simplify schools’ activity fund accounting. Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella focus in the theft of payment card data with software skimmers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. Some are unaware of their involvement and fall victim to social engineering techniques like phishing scams. She is also a regular writer at Bora.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Elsewhere, leaks in which passwords may feature prominently can run the full range of “secure password” to “plaintext data and viewable by anyone” When passwords are exposed, it potentially provides inroads into multiple accounts owned by the victim. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Access to Contacts: Apps with access to your contacts may misuse this information for spamming, social engineering, or selling your contact details to third parties without your consent. Malicious apps could use this data for tracking or unauthorized account access. Cybernews found 52% of tested apps have this permission.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One weakness was that until the attack occurred, the LEEP portal let anyone apply for an account, Krebs wrote. The hacking of the FBI email server appears to be the latest escalation in the campaign against Troia. In an interview with Krebs, the bad actor said he wanted to publicize a vulnerability in the FBI’s IT system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Although this transaction was absolutely transparent and traceable, it did not allow the account holder to be traced, precisely because of the typical peculiarities of digital currency: anonymity, transparency, speed and non-repudiation. In fact, the familiar red lock screen launched by the @WanaDecryptor@.exe How did the contagion stop?

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Forget complex social engineering techniques – just go up to a guy, and ask him if he’s been working out? We used to quote the orange book – yeah that’s right the DoD’s Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). It’s so easy to manipulate anyone that works in infosec.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The virtual ties that bind us are international now: Our public telephone numbers, social media accounts, email addresses, messaging apps, dating profiles, and even our physical mailboxes, can all be reached by any criminal and con artist from anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book, precisely because it’s easy and often successful — particularly when users are in a rush to benefit from a deal that sounds too good to be true. The example above shows an e-mail sent to a user warning that their account has been locked after a third party tried to access it.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You spend hours researching the facilities security, combing their website, and searching through employees’ social media accounts. You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

In Q2 2021, corporate accounts continued to be one of the most tempting targets for cybercriminals. A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. Quarterly highlights. The corporate sector.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2022

Yes, one lapse on a spam email, one inadequate password, one abandoned account, or a malfunctioning asset can cause havoc. . Hackers, for instance, are widely recognized for using phishing emails plus social engineering techniques to acquire access to classified data.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sometimes you don’t even need this level complexity as people often provide their full name and email (and other details) when booking tickets for example. These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. This could give scammers a head start, allowing them to gather information days or weeks in advance.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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Security Through Education

JUNE 22, 2021

Not The Oldest Tricks in the Book. Government impostors call unsuspecting victims and pretend to be from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security Administration, or Medicare. For example, estimates of fraud-related losses and costs range from $2.9 billion a year to as high as $35 billion a year. Government Imposter Scams.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 29, 2018

You’ve likely heard about the first, official Kali Linux book: Kali Linux Revealed, Mastering The Penetration Testing Distribution available from OffSec Press. We’ve made the book available for free in both online HTML and PDF versions because we love you. So why are we selling a book and giving it away?

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim. MORE Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Targeted attacks like these, plus social engineering, specifically phishing – where attackers pose as a trusted source, prey on human vulnerability, and use email or malicious websites to gain the information they want – are effective but they aren’t the only problem. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Women can enable this.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As we mentioned in the previous part, there are six major data types; credit card and payment information, credentials of accounts, government secrets, personally identifiable information (PII), corporate intellectual Property (IP), and critical infrastructure data. The second scenario is about account credentials.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. available wherever books are sold. There’s plenty of work in the digital realm, important work.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. available wherever books are sold. There’s plenty of work in the digital realm, important work.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I took finance, I was doing marketing, I was doing accounting. program, I got promoted into a global strategy role where, instead of focusing on just one area of cybersecurity, I was undertaking vulnerability management and some social engineering. That extra accountability for me is important as a professional.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Excited to announce that @codingo_ and I are currently working on “The Bug Hunter’s Methodology” book.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

I've been either lucky or fortunate to spend just over 20 years in the identity and access management space just through luck and chance and, and booked with industry in different software vendors and such and it's been really fascinating to see things change in the identity space. He loves password managers.

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