Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The Threat Report Portugal: Q4 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to September, Q4, of 2021. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

Threat Reports 98

Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 98

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from March to June, Q2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

Threat Reports 98

Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 98

Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2021

There’s lots of ways this kind of data collection and retention could go wrong. What about social engineers? Even more so, considering the indictment states the defendant did not “ …have a ‘need to know’ in most, if not all, of the information contained in those materials ”. This makes sense.

Social Engineering 109

Social Engineering Data collection Firewall Risk 109

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

It also empowers business owners to easily see, understand and act on contextual intelligence using scoring frameworks proven to stop insider threats, prevent data loss, maximize software investments and protect the workforce, wherever they may be.

Risk 134

Risk Social Engineering Surveillance Data collection 134

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

As a portion of data belongs to the armed forces personnel and some government employees holding bureaucrat status- an enormous threat to national security as such, info is often used to launch phishing or other forms of social engineering attacks. Voter ID details weren’t leaked in the cyber-attack.

Social Engineering 94

Social Engineering Banking Data collection Government 94

SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

Tamir Passi, Senior Product Director at DoControl, said : "Attackers are looking for information they can sell, ransom, use for extortion, or leverage in social engineering attacks. Infostealer attacks are on the rise, focusing on data collection rather than just hiding data behind encryption.

Data breaches 109

Data breaches Social Engineering Ransomware Backups 109

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

For example, data scraping is often used by spammers and phishers to find new targets: they aggregate public contact details and use them for robocalls, spam lists, and social engineering attacks.

Data breaches 103

Data breaches Social Engineering Data collection Media 103

Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap). Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

Data collection 98

Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open-sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

Threat Reports 98

Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 98

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

Data collection from FTP clients, IM clients. Users should receive regular social engineering training about what to look for in phishing emails and messages. Defenses against phishing and social engineering (like the ones listed above) help to prevent the spread of malware like RedLine. Autocomplete fields.

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Passwords Malware 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

The group used zero-day exploits, social engineering tricks, and Trojanized software installers to deliver malware to their victims. The researchers pointed out that only one other Android campaign has been previously attributed to the StrongPity group. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

Mobile 98

Mobile Social Engineering Malware Data collection 98

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Attackers can also automate data collection from the device (user’s current physical address, IP address, contents of the clipboard, stored pictures/videos, contact information and more) and send them to the victims to scare them. Below some recommendations shared by the experts: Never install a Shortcut from an untrusted source.

Social Engineering 111

Social Engineering Advertising Hacking Data collection 111

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing.

Cryptocurrency 296

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 296

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. ” continues the report.

Phishing 98

Phishing Scams Social Engineering Accountability 98

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

No matter what your angle of attack, whether your interest is in social engineering, pranking, system tampering, or data collection, there’s potentially something for everyone. Are these issues still a problem? For now, drive safely and we wish you a non-compromised journey.

Manufacturing 83

Manufacturing Data collection Social Engineering Engineering 83

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Employment screening company DISA says data of 3.3 million people was exposed in a data breach lasts year, prompting AppOmni CSO Cory Michal to say that data collection companies like DISA and National Public Data need more oversight, regulations, and penalties.

CSO 59

CSO Data collection Data breaches Social Engineering 59

Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Doing this helps me make an equal number of calls each day – gotta have even data collection! You’ve heard us say it before, you’ll hear us say it again; social engineering is not a politically correct field. After this, I go to my weekly task list and start dividing up call amounts. Which do I want to use?

Social Engineering 104

Social Engineering Passwords Engineering Data collection 104

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The naming of ElasticSearch indices inside the Thomson Reuters server suggests that the open instance was used as a logging server to collect vast amounts of data gathered through user-client interaction. Either way, even if all of the data was essential, that doesn’t make it less sensitive if leaked. Media giant with $6.35

IoT 127

IoT Engineering Passwords Media 127

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

AI is already used by security tools to detect unusual behavior , and Fortinet expects cybercriminals to use deep fakes and AI to mimic human activities to enhance social engineering attacks and bypass secure forms of authentication such as voiceprints or facial recognition.

Ransomware 136

Ransomware Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence CISO 136

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to convince users to click on malicious links or extract archives.

Ransomware 95

Ransomware Antivirus Malware Banking 95

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It is highly targeted and is usually delivered through social engineering, e.g., a target business may receive a call from a “technician” who insists that the company needs to update its PoS software. Warning from a PoS vendor about Prilex social engineering attacks. Initial infection vector. START GHOST] _.

Malware 139

Malware Banking Software Encryption 139

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In a recent security report, researchers revealed an unsecured archive of US voter data collected by Deep Root Analytics, a data firm connected to the Republican National Convention (RNC). Make sure your employees are prepared for “human attacks,” like phishing and social engineering.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Social Engineering Internet Internet 52

SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

While there are plenty of security and privacy training providers to select from, Rakoski emphasized the importance of companies customizing their awareness programs to their unique privacy challenges and requirements, lest they overlook an important regulation that applies to their specific industry needs or data collection practices.

Education 109

Education Security Awareness Data privacy Social Engineering 109

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC. There has been a significant rise in the number of crimes committed using web phishing and fake websites of banks, payment systems, telecoms operators, online stores and famous brands.

Cyber Attacks 108

Cyber Attacks Banking Cyber threats Phishing 108

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.

Surveillance 129

Surveillance IoT Accountability Passwords 129

SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.

Phishing 144

Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 144

Security Boulevard

APRIL 1, 2025

Wizs agentless data collection was key to this unification: by scanning the entire stack via cloud APIs with no agents to deploy, Wiz quickly populates the graph with comprehensive metadata from multicloud environments ( The World is a graph: How Wiz reimagines cloud security using a graph in Amazon Neptune | AWS Database Blog ).

Risk 52

Risk Internet Internet Cybersecurity 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

Retail 71

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 71

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Solutions like XDR, SIEM, and MDM platforms, apart from traditional anti-virus products, enable centralized data collection, accelerate analysis, and correlate security events from various sources, facilitating swift response to complex incidents.

Hacking 140

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 140

SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

In other cases, they used data that was stolen before the incident began. Attackers continue to refine their multi-step schemes and social engineering methods, often using attached documents and archives containing malware to penetrate the network. Rounding out the top three is targeted phishing.

VPN 122

VPN Accountability Passwords Antivirus 122

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

Retail 64

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 64

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The latter had a wide range of functions: it could steal cookies, saved passwords, autofill data for browser forms and cryptocurrency wallet data, collect system information, steal.txt files from the desktop and make screenshots. Launching the malware resulted in decryption and activation of a Trojan-stealer dubbed Taurus.

Mobile 133

Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 133

SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

We now have better visibility into the group’s tactics, particularly in the areas of lateral movement, data collection and exfiltration. In the past year, ToddyCat has updated its toolset to avoid detection and reduce the number of targets.

Malware 98

Malware Government Phishing Social Engineering 98

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Usages: Network Auditing : Used to assess the security of wireless networks by capturing data packets. Data Collection : Harvests user data and credentials from devices that connect to the rogue network. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks : Can intercept communications between a user and a legitimate network.

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing Computers and Electronics Hacking Wireless 52

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks. Within this framework are requirements to minimize lateral movement and impact in breach scenarios as well as data collection and response requirements.

Network Security 121

Network Security Penetration Testing Firewall Software 121

SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. No surprise, social engineering is mentioned right off the bat. These criminals' methods can be predictable.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Cryptocurrency 98

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And on top of that, social engineering woes are growing, that's becoming more and more of fraudulent payments, just all these other things. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. I'd like to say there's a dip which might have caused people to question whether or not cyber insurance was necessary.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Insurance Cyber Insurance 40