Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Known ransomware attacks July 2022 – December 2023 Big Game ransomware is just one part of a thriving and highly organized cybercrime business—a multi-billion-dollar mirror to the legitimate economy it feeds off. And like broader, law-abiding “Business” at large, cybercrime has settled on a collection of tools that work.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

What is social engineering? Social engineering is a manipulative technique used by criminals to elicit specific actions in their victims. Social engineering is seldom a stand-alone operation. money from a bank account) or use it for other social engineering types. It is usually a step in various fraud schemes.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources. In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, LinkedIn said its teams were actively working to take these fake accounts down. of spam and scam.”

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Someone with a gift for technology but a nasty habit of using it for very bad things has been spared from going to jail with a suspended sentence. There's no word if any sort of ban from using digital technology is included in any of this. This could put those people at an increased risk of social engineering or identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re “Everybody is looking for an alternative, bro,” wrote a BlackHatForums user on Aug.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

As we rely increasingly on digital technologies for our work, communication, entertainment, and education, we also expose ourselves to more and more cyber risks. Human error accounts for 95% of all data breaches. According to PurpleSec, 98% of cybercrime relies on social engineering to accomplish it.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

Police dismantled bulletproof hosting service provider Lolek Hosted Python URL parsing function flaw can enable command execution UK govt contractor MPD FM leaks employee passport data Power Generator in South Africa hit with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud Gafgyt botnet is targeting EoL Zyxel routers Charming (..)

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. What You Can Do. Rosa Rowles.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This analysis from Dirk Schrader, Vice President of Security Research, and Michael Paye, Vice President of Research and Development, is based on Netwrix’s global experience across a wide range of verticals, including technology, finance, manufacturing, government and healthcare. Understaffing will increase the role of channel partners.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

The aim behind the said social engineering attack is simple, one to trap employees with fake job offers and second to lure customers in signing up the page and then steal their currency. NOTE – Lazarus is also known in the world of cybercrime as Guardians of Peace and is being run and funded by the government of North Korea.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. io as the fifth result.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 28, 2023

These arrests have finally shed some much-needed light on the nefarious activities of this group that had sent shockwaves through the technology industry, leaving even the most well-defended organizations vulnerable and concerned. The group's activities extended from 2021 to 2022 and involved individuals from both the U.K. and Brazil.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Technological Tactics. billion in reported losses. Individuals.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This means that dark websites cannot be found using common search engines such as Google or standard web browsers like Chrome. But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. su between 2016 and 2019. ”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The larger the subscription base, the greater the number of fraudulent key-selling schemes and attempts at stealing accounts. In-game items and money are some of the prime goals for attackers stealing players’ accounts. Data from mental health apps will be used in accurately targeted social engineering attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Dragos researchers uncovered a small-scale campaign targeting industrial engineers and operators with Sality malware. During a routine vulnerability assessment, Dragos researchers discovered a campaign targeting industrial engineers and operators with Sality malware. ” reads the advisory published by Dragos.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. It’s already happening.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, cyber-security awareness has become an indispensable skill. Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As the reports covering all of 2022 start trickling in, we can see that cybercrime and other types of fraud had a major impact last year. Businesses Many financials not only carry the burden of protecting their customers, but are also at risk of falling victim to cybercrime themselves. More than half (58.2

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 1, 2022

During the last few years, we have all become witnesses to intense cybercrime and sophisticated cyberattacks. As cybercrime continues to increase, the human element can play the most important role in cybersecurity posture and hygiene. This upward trend is further fuelled by a shift in working conditions like working remotely.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their activities focused on using AI for reconnaissance, social engineering, scripting, and evading detection. Forest Blizzard used our services primarily for open-source research into satellite communication protocols and radar imaging technology, as well as for support with scripting tasks."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. It is imperative that organizations also have the technology to create a timeline of events to understand the security incident in sequential order.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. These attacks aren’t really driven by technology, they’re more human-driven attacks.” The attackers aren’t really relying too much on technology. The total stolen: $2.3

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. Fraudsters use various ways to deceive users: phishing websites, fake mobile apps, accounts and groups on social media. Only 35% of them are official resources, however.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack? ] Now, the U.S.

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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. Now, cybersecurity may just be the most important aspect of financial technology (fintech) in the modern world. Regulatory technologies (Regtech). . Multi-cloud data storage.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

So, while the People, Process, Technology (PPT) framework popularized by Bruce Schneier in the early 2000s has served us well, it has increasingly been questioned recently. The question is whether the concept is still relevant, or if a new one is needed that better matches today’s technological capabilities.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. Threat Traced to Nigeria. But this is just the start.”.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. These attacks are also mounted against highly privileged accounts like administrators and security personnel. Business email compromise is a sticky, multifaceted cybercrime that almost inevitably starts with a phishing attack. Business Email Compromise.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The intrusion resulted from a social engineering attack on a third-party IT support vendor used by Caesars Entertainment. The company has no evidence that any member passwords/PINs, bank account information, or payment card information (PCI) were stolen by attackers. ” reads the 8-K filing.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. Analysis of forecasts for 2021. We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Fake TikTok login page generated by the phishing bot From an engineering standpoint, this is a rather primitive product of a basic phishing kit. For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.

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