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. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA): Implementing MFA adds layer of security to your accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As businesses rely more on mobile devices for authentication and communication, these evolving threats are slipping past conventional security defenses, putting corporate networks at greater risk. Zimperium found that mishing activity peaked in August 2024, with over 1,000 daily attacks recorded. What is mishing?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2024

“CVE-2024-30051 is used to gain initial access into a target environment and requires the use of social engineering tactics via email, social media or instant messaging to convince a target to open a specially crafted document file,” Narang said.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 26, 2024

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO READ ABOUT: Snapchat Password Cracking Tools: A Guide to Staying Safe Harness Biometric Security Features While Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is widely recommended, integrating biometric security adds an unmatched layer of protection. Being aware of these tactics is half the battle.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. Then they used the access to download a set of MFA SMS message logs belonging to customers’ Duo accounts. ” continues the notification.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug. In an Aug.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. Distribution of financial phishing pages by category, 2024 ( download ) Online shopping scams The most popular online brand target for fraudsters was Amazon (33.19%). on the previous year.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2025

Using an insidious social engineering method called ClickFix, attackers manipulate users into unwittingly executing malicious commands, leading to extensive data theft and financial fraud. Implement phishing-resistant authentication methods and multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all access points.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Victims are lured into downloading the malware with a variety of social engineering tactics, including spearphishing. TraderTraitor describes a series of malicious Electron applications that can download and execute malicious payloads, such as remote access trojans ( RAT ). Spearphishing campaigns. Mitigation.

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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.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

XZ backdoor to bypass SSH authentication What happened? This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. The breach allowed the threat actor to download SMS message logs. Kaspersky presented detailed technical analysis of this case in three parts.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In this report, we walk through a real-world case study of how a socially engineered phishing attack worked on a popular company, and show you some steps on how it could have been prevented. This report guides you through some big questions and answers about phishing, including: What is social engineering?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

The threat actor that is offering for sale the data shared a sample of 1M records as proof of the authenticity of the archive. According to the RestorePrivacy website, the threat actor abused the official LinkedIn API to download the data. ” reported RestorePrivacy. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Trickbot Malware that started just as a banking malware has now emerged into a sophisticated data stealing tool capable of injecting malware like ransomware or serve as an Emotet downloader. Note- In September 2020, many of the hospitals and healthcare firms operating in United States were infected by RYUK ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

The threat actors use sophisticated social engineering techniques to infect Windows and Android devices of the victims with previously undocumented backdoors. The new malware employed by the threat actors are tracked as Barb(ie) Downloader and BarbWire Backdoor. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. Gaming is now an online social activity. This gives scammers lots of opportunities to approach unwary gamers and try to trick them into downloading malware, giving up personal details, or handing over login credentials. As such, downloading a pirated game simply isn’t worth the risk.

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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. Do you really need to do it?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. “What actions are required is not clear; however, we do know that exploitation requires an authenticated user level of access,” Breen said.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

VASCO long ago established itself as a leading supplier of authentication technology to 2,000 banks worldwide. LaSala: We’re the world’s largest vendor of hardware authentication. So it’s more about authenticating, not just the user, but authenticating their app on the device, and authenticating the device itself.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The state of security in retail and hospitality RH-ISAC reports “organizations are seeing an increase in the prevalence of credential harvesting attempts, especially leveraging social engineering tactics.” Add a passwordless authentication factor like a biometric and block attempts at access.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access. Your best option is to reduce your overall reliance on your phone number for added authentication at any online service.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems. The reality is that a bad actor’s initial attack begins with either an endpoint downloading, clicking, browsing (something bad), or internet-facing devices/services not being secured.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. Chloé Messdaghi, VP of Strategy, Point3 Security : As this breach shows us, it’s possible for someone to gain access to an individual’s 2FA, so it’s important to use a verification app, such as Google Authenticator.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by hosting a malicious file on their server and tricking a user into downloading and opening it. An attacker could bypass Office macro policies by tricking an authenticated user into downloading and opening a specially crafted file from a website.

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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. The couple claimed that they were able to trick an employee into downloading malware from a phishing email. Risk Level. The common theme? Phishing and poor password practices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Experts uncovered a new Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) -themed campaign that is distributing a malware downloader that delivers the FormBook information-stealing Trojan. ’ The executable employed in this campaign is a strain of the GuLoader malware downloader. Verify a charity’s authenticity before making donations.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The malware utilizes cloud resources for its C2 (command and control) servers, which it accesses via APIs using authentication tokens. The malware, which received commands via the Dropbox cloud service, was used to download additional payloads. All the active sub-campaigns host the initial downloader on Dropbox.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The malware landing page is disguised as a software download URL that was sent via email or a PDF on Google Drive, or via Google documents containing the phishing links. Some of the samples employed several anti-sandboxing techniques including enlarged files, encrypted archive and download IP cloaking.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 31, 2023

Phishing attacks, malicious links and social engineering are just a few of the tricks used by cybercriminals to obtain credentials and other valuable information. The messages typically contain a link that downloads malware onto your device or directs you to a fake website that looks like the real one.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 23, 2025

"Ninety-nine percent of attacks can be blocked with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an oft-discussed quote from 2019. New threat types such as push-bombing, social engineering, and spear phishing are forcing organizations to do more than rely on MFA alone. Attacks have evolved.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

An attacker can obtain the parameter by using a social engineering technique. To do this, the attacker needs a valid ‘ssid’ parameter, generated when a NAS user shares a file from their QNAP device. This parameter is included in the URL of the ‘share’ link.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, if you just use the command as written, it will actually authenticate to the AZ CLI with the Entra ID user that is running the notebook code. Note that if the AML user has not already authenticated to the AML compute resource, they may be prompted to authenticate. Get the user to run the code in the notebook a.

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SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

Lumma has also been observed using exploit kits, social engineering, and compromised websites to extend its reach and evade detection by security solutions. txt file contains aBase64-encoded PowerShell script that then downloads and runs theLumma Stealer. txt The script performs the following actions: Downloads the malware.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Shadow says the incident happened at the end of September, and was the result of a social engineering attack on a Shadow employee. The attack began on the Discord platform after the employee downloaded malware he believed to be a game on the Steam platform. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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