Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

A malicious generative AI chatbot dubbed "GhostGPT" is being advertised to cybercriminals on underground forums as a tool for more quickly and efficiently creating malware, running BEC attacks, and other nefarious activities, lowering the barrier for less-skilled hackers to launch attacks.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Classiscam campaigns initially started out on classified sites, on which scammers placed fake advertisements and used social engineering techniques to convince users to pay for goods by transferring money to bank cards," Group-IB said in a new report. The Classiscam scam-as-a-service program has reaped the criminal actors $64.5

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

This intersection of sports, money, and digital activity makes for a perfect storm of social engineering attacks. Please never, EVER install applications after clicking an advertising link, especially when it came from trying to buy tickets or sports merchandise," Ford said.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These tools can also answer an endless array of factual questions, much like the separate AI tool Perplexity, which advertises itself not as a search engine, but as the worlds first answer engine. Importantly, the attack methods here are not new. Instead, theyve simply become easier to scale with the use of AI.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The accused allegedly developed and marketed a series of cryptocurrency applications that were advertised as tools to help people manage their crypto holdings. In reality, prosecutors say, the programs were malware or downloaded malware after the applications were installed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

“Another social engineering technique the threat actor uses to lure the employee into interacting with the email is giving the messages urgency, asking the recipient to review them or they will be deleted after three days.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2023

The five emerging cyber-attack vectors the speakers covered were adversarial AI, ChatGPT-powered social engineering, third-party developer, SEO, and paid advertising attacks. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” Crazy Evil is referred as a traffer team, which is a group of social engineering specialists tasked with redirecting legitimate traffic to malicious landing pages. Crazy Evil actively recruits affiliates by advertising its cybercriminal network with specific skill requirements. Victim losses range from $0.10

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.” Black Basta Email Spam Campaign We have observed several advertisements on the dark web offering email spam services, which are commonly sold for approximately $10–500.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

News article : Most troublingly, Activision says that the “cheat” tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title “new COD hack.” ” (Gamers looking to flout the rules will typically go to such forums to find new ways to do so.)

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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. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect. Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The man acknowledged having targeted friends, co-workers, and family members, he used social engineering tricks and also used malware to compromise victims’ systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 26, 2022

Marketers utilize aggregate data , collected from online purchases and website visits, alongside social engineering to keep you purchasing, downloading, and revisiting. Aggregate Data, Algorithms, and Social Engineering = Influence. Aggregate Data, Algorithms, and Social Engineering = Influence. Not at all.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2024

The core issue with brand impersonation comes from ads that appear as if they were from official sources and advertisers’ identities verified by Google. Since the whole premise of these attacks relies on social engineering, it is absolutely critical to properly distinguish real advertisers from fake ones.

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Authentication Computers and Electronics Social Engineering Malware 142

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Meanwhile, a digital advertising company named Reindeer from New York is trending on Google for accidental data exposure. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. million files from a mis-configured Amazon S3 Bucket.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Experts warn of possible social-engineering-based cyber attacks leveraging the exposed info. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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.

Identity Theft 354

Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 354

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

“Also some actors have reported that banks’ customer-support lines are being overloaded, making it difficult for fraudsters to call them for social-engineering activities (such as changing account ownership, raising withdrawal limits, etc).” ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed. .”

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Marketing Scams 352

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Huge advertising monopoly flexes muscles: “Manifest V2” extensions to be nuked, but “V3” cripples ad blockers. Manifest V3: Destiny. The post Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

Interestingly, this campaign relies on a well-known social engineering trick – a fake Adobe Flash update warning – in order to induce the user to download and install malware.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Kill (uninstall) the malware. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware Social Engineering Advertising Government 145

Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

“When combined with timely social engineering lures, these non-sophisticated attacks continue to be successful.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

There are two primary techniques to target Exchange servers; the most common scenario sees attackers launching social engineering or drive-by download attacks targeting endpoints to steal credentials and move laterally until they gain access to an Exchange server. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Government Communication Service website was publicly displaying information of about 45k Govt employees and details include email address, phone numbers and job titles, along with the social media account handles of some ministers and civil servants, including their Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Instead of malicious actors putting in hours of work creating complicated mitigation bypasses or leverages existing exploits – they can instead work to create convincing cheat advertisements, which if priced competitively, could potentially get some attention.”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

. “It calls on its C&C server to fetch relevant web injections when infected users land on a targeted page and uses them to modify the pages users are browsing to include social engineering content and trick them into divulging personal information and authentication codes.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The only way to p revent this kind of p hysical intrusions that exploit human factor and social engineering is to implement a cultural change. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

They can then conduct elaborate phishing and social engineering attacks to gain access to the victims’ accounts on other digital services such as entertainment and shopping platforms or even online banking. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This kind of social engineering attacks was already used by Hamas hackers in the past, in July 2018 Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

The second human-operated ransomware family is Doppelpaymer that in recent months targeted enterprise environments through social engineering. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

Just prior to the Twitter compromise, Chaewon advertised a service on the forum that could change the email address tied to any Twitter account for around $250 worth of bitcoin. Twitter added that it is working with law enforcement and is rolling out additional company-wide training to guard against social engineering tactics.

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