CSO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

Social engineering is involved in the vast majority of cyberattacks, but a new report from Proofpoint has revealed five common social engineering assumptions that are not only wrong but are repeatedly subverted by malicious actors in their attacks.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Using social engineering rather than traditional ransomware tactics, the Lapsus$ group has already hit multiple organizations, says Microsoft. The post Microsoft warns of destructive attacks by Lapsus$ cybercrime group appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 24, 2022

An online cybersecurity event with 2,500 people already logged in had to be cancelled after suspected cybercriminals launched a social engineering attack in the event’s chat window.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 23, 2023

A threat actor known as Muddled Libra is targeting the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry with persistent attacks that leverage advanced social engineering ploys to gain initial access.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The surge gives further credence to the idea that cybercrime is less about tech know-how and more about social engineering, according to its fraud report.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina. Click to enlarge.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2022

As per an article by The Hindu, 50,035 cases of cybercrime were reported in 2020, 11.8% of cybercrimes were of fraud. The post Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World appeared first on Kratikal Blogs. The post Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World appeared first on Kratikal Blogs. more than in 2019 while 60.2%

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Five alleged members of the infamous Scattered Spider cybercrime crew have been indicted in the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Popular email marketing service MailChimp recently fell victim to another data breach, this time caused by a successful social engineering attack on its employees and contractors.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Cybercrime is here, it is dynamic and it is not going anywhere. The three-day event saw 12 peer-reviewed papers on cybercrime and ecrime presented and discussed from both academia and the cybersecurity sectors. The post APWG’s eCrime 2021 Symposium Shows Cybercrime Evolving appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Social engineering is a core part of these schemes and the tricks we see are sometimes very clever. Overlap with other campaigns As mentioned previously, this type of social engineering attack is getting more and more popular. Interestingly, the same domain ( topsportracing[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven. But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider , a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , Mailchimp , and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. man arrested was a SIM-swapper who went by the alias “ Tyler.”

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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. “Brickings” are among the “violence-as-a-service” offerings broadly available on many cybercrime channels.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” Crazy Evil is referred as a traffer team, which is a group of social engineering specialists tasked with redirecting legitimate traffic to malicious landing pages. The cybercrime gang focused on targeting the Web3 and decentralized finance industry. These factors make it a persistent cyber threat.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 23, 2021

The post AI-Fueled Deep Fakes Signal New Era of Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard. Events like the 2020 U.S. elections or COVID-19 vaccinations highlight how political opponents and rogue nations actively practice disinformation campaigns to undermine confidence in governments and science, sowing.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware. Uncovered by cybersecurity firm Group-IB , GoldPickaxe exists in both Android and iOS versions and was developed by a suspected Chinese hacking group called "GoldFactory."

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In a report published today, the company said since late March 2020 it has observed several crooks complaining about COVID-19 interfering with the daily activities of their various money mules (people hired to help launder the proceeds of cybercrime). ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed. .

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Scattered Spider threat actors typically engage in data theft for extortion using multiple social engineering techniques and have recently leveraged BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware alongside their

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions. Deepfakes are revolutionizing social engineering attacks, making them more deceptive and harder to detect.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

“Cloaks attack strategy involves acquiring network access through Initial Access Brokers (IABs) or social engineering methods such as phishing, malvertising, exploit kits, and drive-by downloads disguised as legitimate updates like Microsoft Windows installers.” ” reads a report published by Halcyon.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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Digital Shadows

APRIL 20, 2022

The post The role of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in facilitating cybercrime first appeared on Digital Shadows. You’d have to have been living under a rock to have avoided the excitement surrounding Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) in the last.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Researchers at Datadog Security Labs have uncovered a year-long, large-scale cybercrime campaign by a threat actor tracked as MUT-1244. This operation, which blends social engineering and technical exploitation, has resulted in the theft of more than 390,000 WordPress credentials.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

March is a time for leprechauns and four-leaf clovers, and as luck would have it, its also a time to learn how to protect your private data from cybercrime. Social engineering attacks Social engineering attacks occur when someone uses a fake persona to gain your trust.

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The Hacker News

JULY 16, 2024

The infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has incorporated ransomware strains such as RansomHub and Qilin into its arsenal, Microsoft has revealed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2023

In recent months, a cybercrime group known as Blacktail has begun to make headlines as they continue to target organizations around the globe. Two of the most popular tools that have been used by the cybercrime group are LockBit 3.0 The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. Both LockBit 3.0

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

Phishing plays straight out of the cybercrime playbook "March Madness brings heightened cybersecurity risks this year, especially with the expansion of sports gambling beyond traditional office pools creating new attack vectors for credential harvesting and financial fraud," warns J.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Code snippets in attacker supplied prompts indicated it had standard surveillanceware capabilities” OpenAI finally reported that China-linked group SweetSpectre used ChatGPT for reconnaissance, vulnerability research, malware development, and social engineering.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. “The world is full of targets that are not used to being targeted this way.”

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Phishing scams continue to top the list of cybercrimes. Unfortunately, it’s likely 2022 will continue this trend as these types of social engineering attacks become more sophisticated. The statistics are alarming. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

In its latest research , SlashNext—a provider of multi-channel phishing and human hacking solutions—delves into the emerging use of generative AI, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, and the cybercrime tool WormGPT, in Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. Urgency is a key emotion that social engineers prey upon to induce actions."

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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. The post Hackers shifting cybercrime focus towards smart phones and tablets appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Threat actors relies on social engineering tactics like ClickFix and FakeCaptcha to trick users into executing malicious scripts via PowerShell or Run prompts. Researchers from Gen Digital who discovered the threat, believe it is in its early development phase. Gen Digital observed phishing campaigns distributing the Glove Stealer.

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