SecureWorld News

MAY 9, 2025

The method, known as "ClickFix," leverages social engineering to bypass traditional email-based defenses. The LOSTKEYS malware shows how attackers are getting smarter at tricking people and sneaking past basic security tools, especially by using fake websites and social engineering to get users to run harmful scripts," said J.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This may involve identifying compromised servers, web applications, databases, or user accounts. Disable compromised accounts or restrict their permissions immediately, update passwords for authorized users to prevent further unauthorized access. Establish a clear timeline and recreate the sequence of events leading to the data leak.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

Getting these products in front of real world audiences at an event is sure to boost sales. Soon after paying, the organiser vanishes and you realise you’re £60 to £75 out of pocket for a three day event. The fake organisers create brand new Facebook accounts, and often reuse the same name across muliple profiles.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Identity Providers (IdP) and Event Controls: Use IdPs like Okta or Azure AD to create role-based access controls (RBAC). Using a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system consolidates logs and detects anomalies, triggering alerts for the Security Operations Center (SOC) to triage incidents and respond to threats in real-time.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2020

Schools and companies should consider the following: Set up accounts with competing services: While Zoom holds a dominant position, it is by no means the only video conferencing platform for meetings or for education. Competing services such as Skype and Google Meet offer free versions.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2022

The email’s subject line, “Microsoft account unusual sign-in activity”, is always guaranteed to attract some attention. Report the user Thanks, The Microsoft account team. Instead, it’s a Mailto: URI which opens a fresh email with a pre-filled message to be sent to a specific email account. Miss it, miss out.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Security incident statistics for 2024 In 2024, the MDR infrastructure received and processed on average 15,000 telemetry events per host every day, generating security alerts as a result. Human-driven targeted attacks accounted for 43% of high-severity incidents 74% more than in 2023 and 43% more than in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. ” MICROBILT.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction Since mid-2024, we’ve observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which we have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2021

Social engineering tricks are constantly used by threat actors to gain access to an individual's account or even an entire organization's system. SecureWorld recently wrapped up one of its Remote Sessions to talk about the issue of social engineering, including best practices and how to avoid being fooled by a cyber criminal.

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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. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches. To mitigate risks, organizations must enforce Zero-Trust principles, limit AI access to privileged accounts, and sanitize AI prompts. As compute costs decrease, autonomous operations and AI-discovered zero-day exploits loom.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2024

From the Stands to the Screen - Safeguarding Global Sporting Events with Cybersecurity josh.pearson@t… Thu, 07/25/2024 - 07:00 Global events like the Olympics attract an extraordinary amount of attention. Encryption Global events like the Olympics attract an extraordinary amount of attention. And how can we protect against them?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Step 2: Customized solutions for the environment Pestie parallel: Pestie sends pest-control solutions tailored to the homeowner's specific environment, accounting for factors like location, climate, and common pests in the area. Waiting for an attack to occurlike waiting for pests to infest your homeleads to higher costs and more damage.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secure networks : Avoid using untrusted public Wi-Fi to access social media accounts, instead, use mobile data. This avoids one of the easiest ways attackers get access to your account – you reusing passwords across multiple websites. The idea is that you need to have this physical item with you to access your account.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” After mass email spam events, the targeted users were added to Microsoft Teams chats with external users. What Happened? com supportserviceadmin.onmicrosoft[.]com

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

The malware also supports advanced keylogger capabilities by capturing all Accessibility events and screen elements. Notifications & Social Engineering: Posts fake push notifications to trick users. Crocodilus steals OTP codes from Google Authenticator via Accessibility Logging, enabling account takeovers.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks. Recent Security Events Recent cyber security events have highlighted the persistent and evolving nature of online threats.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2024

High-end APT groups perform highly interesting social engineering campaigns in order to penetrate well-protected targets. While this highly targeted and interactive social engineering approach might not be completely novel, it is extraordinary. It’s highly recommended reading. It’s highly recommended reading.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Activities during this week include engaging workshops, informative webinars, and community events, all designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate today’s cyber threats effectively. Change them regularly and avoid reusing passwords across different accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the update. .”

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

She spoke about various voting count incidents and the lack of accountability in very specific incidents. Of course, these actual events have been and will be spun up into misinformation content, which is unfortunate, but the legitimate discussion must be held. Hopefully he will be in-person for future work.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

A California state agency was victimized by a phishing incident last week in which an employee clicked on a link that provided access to the employee’s account for some 24 hours. In an announcement issued by SCO, officials said the improperly accessed email account was discovered promptly and access removed.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address. com account[.]datedeath[.]com com account[.]turnkeycashsite[.]com Indicators of Compromise Redirect deel[.]za[.]com com Phishing domains login-deel[.]app app accuont-app-deel[.]cc

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 19, 2021

The most pressing issue is that of postpaid account customer’s PINs. Roughly 850k active prepaid accounts had account PINS exposed , along with names and phone numbers. These PINs are used to help identify the account owner on customer service phone calls. million current postpaid customers impacted. What to do?

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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. Even events like the World Cup are being used by cyber criminals to target unsuspecting victims through things like fake streaming sites designed to steal private information.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. Soon after, the attackers were able to use their control over his mobile number to reset his Gmail account password. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The company notified federal law enforcement regarding the event and launched an investigation into the incident with the help of a third-party specialist. Card verification numbers (CVV) were not exposed, however, threat actors can obtain them from cardholders through social engineering attacks.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this week’s podcast (#124): we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Also: Brian Fox of the firm Sonatype joins us to talk about the recent compromise of the Github event-stream project and why. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Attackers used Twitter profiles for sharing links to their blog, to share videos of their claimed exploits, and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts under their control. “The actors have been observed targeting specific security researchers by a novel social engineering method.”

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2024

From the Stands to the Screen - Safeguarding Global Sporting Events with Cybersecurity josh.pearson@t… Thu, 07/25/2024 - 07:00 Global events like the Olympics attract an extraordinary amount of attention. Encryption Global events like the Olympics attract an extraordinary amount of attention. And how can we protect against them?

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But a hallmark of the event since it was first held in 2009 is visiting speakers who aren’t afraid to challenge popular narratives. Phillip Larbey, associate director for EMEA at Verizon, said the vast majority of cyber incidents involve at least one of three elements – human error, social engineering and ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

Related video: New York holds companies accountable for data security. So next, threat actors focused on honing techniques to gain access to privileged accounts. They discovered how readily privileged access could be gained via social engineering, or simply by purchasing stolen account credentials on the Dark Web.

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