Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2021

Top three patterns in breaches were: social engineering, basic web application attacks, and system intrusion. Top three patterns in incidents were: denial of service, basic web application attacks, and social engineering. The top two (phishing and credential stuffing) were disproportionately represented in the data.

Data breaches 192

Data breaches Social Engineering Ransomware Phishing 192

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). The Phishing template.

Phishing 101

Phishing Social Engineering Banking Engineering 101

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Since passports contain a significant amount of personal information, including full names, date of birth, and a unique passport number, cyber criminals could use them to impersonate victims and steal their identities,” the team said. Another risk people whose passports were exposed have to deal with is spear phishing attacks.

Identity Theft 127

Identity Theft Social Engineering Banking Risk 127

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The experts pointed out that crooks engaged in phishing activities have started to rely on the popular instant messaging platform more in recent months. On Telegram is possible to find channels that offer: Free phishing kits that can be used to target users of a large number of global and local brands. ” Phishing-as-a-Service.

Phishing 93

Phishing Scams Social Engineering Banking 93

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. Upon detection, it alters the banking information of the intended recipient (like the victim’s supplier) to details specified by the perpetrator.

Artificial Intelligence 128

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 128

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

Security experts analyzed a new interesting Android banking Trojan, dubbed Cerberus, that is offered for rent by its author. The malware implements banking Trojan capabilities such as the use of overlay attacks, the ability to intercept SMS messages and access to the contact list. ” continues the report.

Banking 94

Banking Malware Advertising Social Engineering 94

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Know how to identify a phishing attack.

Social Engineering 145

Social Engineering Password Management Passwords Phishing 145

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The proliferation of digital has seen us move from bricks and mortar stores and banks to online services. Recognize phishing. Phishing is a popular tactic for cybercriminals. Cybercriminals increasingly employ social engineering tactics because they are effective. Everything depends on how we take in information.

Security Awareness 71

Security Awareness Data breaches Social Engineering Phishing 71

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. Beware of suspicious messages on social media and connection requests from strangers. About the author: CyberNews Team.

Social Engineering 143

Social Engineering Data collection Media Passwords 143

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. The spam messages use weaponized office documents to drop the Ursnif banking Trojan in the final stage.

Malware 92

Malware Banking Social Engineering Retail 92

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

Data breaches 90

Data breaches Cybercrime Firewall Artificial Intelligence 90

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 352 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

Social Engineering 84

Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Small Business Ransomware 84

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

About 10 or 11 years ago, when I came to the conclusion that there was this huge problem of social engineering, the only two companies were PhishMe and Wombat. And on the change from international expansion: our business is unique in that it’s not just translating phishing attacks to different languages.

Firewall 54

Firewall Social Engineering Phishing Marketing 54

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

Malware 82

Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 82

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

According to the report, more than 90% of African businesses are operating without the necessary cyber security protocols in place. It is important to highlight that Africa has the fastest-growing telephone and Internet networks in the world, and it as the widest use of mobile banking services.

Cybercrime 84

Cybercrime Scams DDOS Banking 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

), and finally with stealing not only your searches and browsing data, but also affiliation to 10,000 targeted sites — a capability that is easily leveraged for targeted spear phishing, account takeover and credential extraction — all using this powerful network of millions of infected computers worldwide!”

Social Engineering 92

Social Engineering Phishing Accountability Banking 92

Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Threat actors have devised a new trick to disable macro security warning that leverage non-malicious docs in malspam attacks. Most of the malspam campaigns leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. Zeus OpenSSL).

Social Engineering 114

Social Engineering Banking Engineering Passwords 114

Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Another type of info stealer, this malware checks the user’s clipboard and steals banking information or other sensitive data a user copies. Experts also warn of scams and other social engineering attacks that cybercriminals use to trick victims into sending funds to the attackers’ wallets.

Cryptocurrency 99

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Malware Cybercrime 99

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails.

Social Engineering 129

Social Engineering Passwords Marketing Phishing 129

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews The information exposed in this data leak could have been exploited for fraud, identity theft, phishing attempts, or as a source of data for meticulously targeted cyberattacks. Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents.

Passwords 114

Passwords Identity Theft Social Engineering Spyware 114

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. A few days later, the company account department’s mailbox receives an e-mail from the vacationing employee requesting his pay to be deposited to a card in a different bank.

Identity Theft 101

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 101

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

Since the end of April 2020, a new trojan has been affecting Portuguese users from several bank organizations. At least since the year of 2014 that new variants have been observed, with minor changes, and with the objective of collecting bank details of the victims. The modus operandi of this piece of malware is not new in Portugal.

Banking 115

Banking Malware Phishing Social Engineering 115

Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it. Plus, in 83.9%

Phishing 97

Phishing Accountability Banking Social Engineering 97

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A new threat actor, tracked as TA2101, is using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy to multiple families of malware, deliver ransomware, and banking Trojans. The phishing campaigns delivering malicious attachments were observed since the end of October. ” concludes Proofpoint.

Government 80

Government Malware Social Engineering Banking 80

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel. As with all subsequent campaigns, the initial compromise vector was a well-written phishing email. Who are you, Mr. Pentester?

Phishing 143

Phishing Social Engineering Banking Advertising 143

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. Instead of using the “spray and pray” technique, they started zeroing in on enterprise networks.

Ransomware 243

Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2023

A Mexican threat actor that goes online with the moniker Neo_Net is behind an Android malware campaign targeting banks worldwide. The case was reported by security researcher Pol Thill. The threat actor also targeted banks in other regions, including Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole and ING. ” Thill explained.

Banking 85

Banking Phishing Social Engineering Authentication 85

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place.

Passwords 136

Passwords Authentication Identity Theft Engineering 136

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2022

The best asset management software sets up a stock of your organization’s assets, phases of their entire life cycles, most recent software upgrades, the risks they could face, and the approaches to ensure their security. . . IoT devices could be used like botnets so as to execute DDoS attacks. . . Conclusion.

Cyber Risk 122

Cyber Risk Software Risk IoT 122

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Police report containing accident details, as well as involved parties phone numbers, driver’s license information, name-surname, and national identifier. After having access to victims’ phone calls and SMS messages, bad actors could then try to do the same operation with clients’ insurance and bank. Corporate Espionage.

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 106

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

The research also identified Babylon Health, Wombat, and First Bank Romania with over 100,000 installs each, as well as Coconut and Currencies Direct apps with over 10,000 installs each. Threat actors can abuse PII to conduct phishing and social engineering attacks. Verification process. Looming dangers.

Identity Theft 91

Identity Theft Accountability Data breaches Social Engineering 91

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently observed threat actors using sophisticated social engineering tactics to target IT help desks in the health sector. bank accounts.” The attackers aim at gaining initial access to target organizations. ” reads the HC3 sector alert.

Social Engineering 121

Social Engineering Healthcare Engineering Accountability 121

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

Security Awareness 40

Security Awareness Risk Cyber threats Cyber Risk 40

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

In this context, the prime risks are the responsibility and role of employees in ensuring data and information security. On 14th August 2019, the auto parts supplier was tricked into making a large fund transfer into the hackers’ bank account. Social engineering.

Cybersecurity 137

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Phishing Engineering 137

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). Increasing security savvy at home can motivate employees to go further to protect your organization’s network and the customer information on it. These six areas will help improve your security program.

Healthcare 214

Healthcare Cyber Attacks Education Social Engineering 214

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. For more information about the Qakbot TTPs check below the full analysis.

Threat Reports 86

Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 86

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Phishing and Malware Q2 2022. of the total, in comparison with 6.9%

Threat Reports 85

Threat Reports Phishing Banking Malware 85