Krebs on Security
APRIL 6, 2022
“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. ” Like LAPSUS$, these vishers just kept up their social engineering attacks until they succeeded. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack.
IT Security Guru
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code. The weak point of all passwords is that the secret, once revealed, is useless as a defence.
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The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.)
Security Boulevard
MAY 10, 2023
From the services dropdown in Mythic’s side menu, the “Consuming Services” page shows a list of all the things that consuming services (webhooks and loggers) can listen for and acton upon. Mythic’s consuming services page There’s even a webhook for custom events which ties in to Mythic’s scripting.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. A SIM-swap works like this: The attackers spend some time gathering readily available personal information on the targeted victim, then call up the victim’s phone service provider.
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