Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cybercriminals employ social engineering techniques to trick you into believing you must resolve fictitious technical issues. The hallmark of ClickFix campaigns is their clever use of social engineering. These tools can help detect and block malicious activities before compromising your system.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus firm Bitdefender shows that 8.4 Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Medical identity theft Medical identity theft happens when someone steals or uses your personal information like your name, Social Security number, or Medicare details, to get healthcare in your name. Social engineering attacks Social engineering attacks occur when someone uses a fake persona to gain your trust.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

However, the same also goes for antivirus software and other anti-malware solutions. As long as you need employees, you will get spear-phishing campaigns and other social engineering attacks. The post Threat Group Continuously Updates Malware to Evade Antivirus Software appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Using this social engineering trick, threats like stealers, RATs, Trojans, and crypto miners can persist undetected. The discovered infected archives contained an additional executable, with a modified start script tricking victims into disabling antivirus protections. in a temporary folder.

Cryptocurrency 91

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Spinone

JANUARY 13, 2020

Installing antivirus software (or AV) is often considered an important ransomware protection measure. It’s better to buy a subscription to antivirus software than to pay, on average, $36,295 to hackers or face significant financial and reputational damages. Antivirus users often experience ransomware attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. since the nascent days of the antivirus market, I find in fascinating that the top dozen or so antivirus players have all managed to remain in the game. In the early days, antivirus suites were threat-centric and device-centric.

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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. This includes antivirus software, operating systems, and individual apps. There are many ways in which we can be exposed to potential cyberattacks. Security tools and services.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. The MGM attacks were almost identical to the social engineering attacks on Caesars, which targeted a third-party IT help desk.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Antivirus solutions, monitoring systems, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools play a critical role in combating these threats. Social engineering techniques enable them to bypass technical security measures effectively. Social engineering techniques enable them to bypass technical security measures effectively.

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Data breaches Social Engineering Passwords Accountability 112

Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

“Guides for cheats will typically ask users to disable or uninstall antivirus software and host firewalls, disable kernel code signing, etc.” . “It is common practice when configuring a cheat program to run it the with the highest system privileges,” the report notes. ” Detailed report.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. Gaming is now an online social activity. Watch for phishing and social engineering. The best way to stay safe is to be aware of the threat—and learn how to spot phishing and social engineering attacks when you encounter them. Account takeovers.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Phishing and Social Engineering : Phishing remains a popular attack method, leveraging emails, fake websites, and social media to deceive users into providing sensitive information. Cybercriminals are also increasingly using social media to gather intelligence, exploit personal information, and initiate attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Security experts say that such servers that are left unprotected could act as access points to hackers who can then siphon data and then indulge in robo-calling frauds, phishing & extortion tactics via social engineering attacks.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Stealth Capabilities : The malware is designed to avoid detection by traditional antivirus solutions, employing techniques such as process masquerading and rootkit-like functionality. Train Employees Educating employees about phishing and social engineering tactics can reduce the likelihood of attackers gaining initial access to networks.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2020

This is exacerbated by the fact that Exchange servers have traditionally lacked antivirus solutions, network protection, the latest security updates, and proper security configuration, often intentionally, due to the misguided notion that these protections interfere with normal Exchange functions. Keep antivirus and other protections enabled.

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

In this article we analyse the technical features of the Trojan’s components, giving a detailed overview of obfuscation techniques, the infection process and subsequent functions, as well as the social engineering tactics used by the cybercriminals to convince their victims to give away their personal online banking details.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the time of writing, SharkBot appears to have a very low detection rate by antivirus solutions since. The experts did not find any samples of the malware on the official Google Play Store, they pointed out that the malicious code is delivered on the users’ devices using both the side-loading technique and social engineering schemes.

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Banking Mobile Social Engineering Malware 143

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 18, 2021

To secure against TrickBot, CISA and FBI recommend implementing the mitigation measures described in the advisory, which include blocking suspicious IP addresses, using antivirus software, and providing social engineering and phishing training to employees.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 7, 2019

Human fallibility is the reason social engineering has proven to be so effective – and why phishing persists. Web-based social engineering attacks jumped 233% vs. the previous quarter. •99% Cyber criminals get this.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2021

Experts pointed out that it also leverages social engineering to trick victims into downloading a mobile app. Bizarro gathers system info, including computer name, OS version, default browser name, installed antivirus software. Bizarro initializes the screen capturing module.

Banking 128

Banking Social Engineering Malware Engineering 128

Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Improvements made by Google to protect their users from future attacks include heuristic rules that detect and then block social engineering & phishing emails, live streams for crypto-scams and theft of cookies. That way, antivirus detectors that trigger malware will be avoided.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2023

But after the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the focus of hackers has shifted more towards the smart phones with more phishing and social engineering attacks recorded in a 2nd quarter of 2022. All these days, we have seen cyber criminals infiltrating networks and taking down computers.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 7, 2022

It is likely, based on the customer service provided by Raccoon Stealer developers, that antivirus evasion will be built into Raccoon Stealer 2.0 DropBox and social engineering. You can avoid this by understanding and recognizing social engineering, and not clicking on links from people you don’t know or trust.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To do this, an attacker needs to spoof the victim’s phone number and impersonate a bank or company representative and then the bot would try to call the victim, using social engineering techniques to get ahold of a verification code. Phishing, Social Engineering are Still Problems. Best Antivirus Software for 2021.

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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. In many cases, some machines run without standard safeguards, like security updates and cloud-delivered antivirus protection.” ” continues Microsoft.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 7, 2021

Misrepresentation, a form of social engineering that occurs when a hacker poses as a trusted source – such as a member of an organization’s executive team – to convince people to give up their credentials was also 15 times higher last year compared to the year before. billion malicious login attempts last year.

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Cybercrime Social Engineering Data breaches Antivirus 111

SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

The attackers used a new cryptor to obfuscate the malware code they hid in seemingly legitimate files and evade detection from antivirus software. First, it provides a plausible excuse to urge users to disable their antivirus software, since that is often the first step to installing a cheating mod.

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Software Malware Risk Antivirus 132

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Since endpoints are the biggest entry point for breaches , businesses need to make sure they are protected with comprehensive endpoint security that includes next generation antivirus, endpoint protection, and endpoint detection and response. Mobile Threat Defense solutions are designed to protect mobile devices and these unique needs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In classic social engineering attack, the phishing message presents a “one time username and password” to the victims and urges the user to click the “Login Right Here” button. The login button is an embedded Hyperlink that points to hxxp : // yosemitemanagement [. ]

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Phishing Social Engineering Malware Advertising 108

Hacker Combat

APRIL 1, 2021

However, social engineering is the most common. Hackers have embraced social engineering in making ransomware attacks successful. First, make sure that your operating system software and your antivirus software are updated as regularly as possible. A ransomware scanner tool works similar to an antivirus.

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Ransomware Backups Social Engineering Passwords 90

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Callback phishing – or telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) – is a social engineering attack that requires a threat actor to interact with the target to accomplish their objectives. As these tools are not malicious, they’re not likely to be flagged by traditional antivirus products,” the researchers wrote.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Relying on exhaustive lists of threats, as seen in antivirus and intrusion detection systems, is impractical. Users' susceptibility to phishing attacks and social engineering tactics remains a persistent challenge. However, in the current landscape, the sheer volume of malicious entities outweighs the known benign ones.

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