Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Victims are lured into downloading the malware with a variety of social engineering tactics, including spearphishing. Educate users on social engineering attacks like spearphishing. All of this is done to create an environment where the group can initiate fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. dll (Nitrogen).

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. Continuously educating your workforce. Continuously Educate Your Workforce. dollars to remediate per incident.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

Starting out on a help desk, Chris worked his way up to roles as a system administrator and network engineer, eventually taking the IT helm at a power provider with a portfolio of over 30 North American plants, including three nuclear facilities.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While we tend to associate phishing emails more with our personal accounts, attacks targeting our work identities whether through socially engineered phishing, brute force, or another form, are very common. An email containing a QR code constructed from Unicode characters (defanged) identified by Cisco Talos.

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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. Insiders with privileged access expose companies to the most dangerous cyber threats , and damage the most valuable and sensitive corporate data.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. As managing vulnerabilities in embedded systems become increasingly crucial to cybersecurity, Maria Markstedter offers her expertise as an independent security researcher and founder of Azeria Labs.

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