SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. Hacker targets victims with fear. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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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.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The social engineering aspect around phishing works because humans want to be helpful, informed, paid well, get stuff for free sometimes, and generally not end up on the wrong side of management. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults).

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

By hiding the truth and not communicating with us, what happened will be published on social media and yet in news websites. Gootkit: the cautious banking Trojan. It is complex multi-stage banking malware, which was initially discovered by Doctor Web in 2014. Bizarro banking Trojan expands into Europe.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

The recent social engineering MFA bombing attacks (or push bombing as defined by CISA, the US Cyber Infrastructure Security Agency) have raised concerns about which MFA method businesses should select. Most banking applications use CBA behind the scenes and further protect the digital certificate using a fingerprint or a passcode.

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