Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. Perhaps more importantly for Sprint and its customers, the forum also included numerous links and references to internal tools and procedures.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2023

This could be via social engineering, spear phishing attacks, or exploitation of other services.” While not standard in all organizations, RAS servers typically have direct access from the Internet where most users and services are connected.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s a digital swindle as old as the internet itself, and yet, as the data tells us, the vast majority of security incidents are still rooted in the low-tech art of social engineering. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

The joint FBI/CISA alert continued: “Actors first began using unattributed Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) numbers to call targeted employees on their personal cellphones, and later began incorporating spoofed numbers of other offices and employees in the victim company. ” SMASH & GRAB.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“This is typically achieved through social engineering attacks with spear phishing to gain initial access to a host before searching for other vulnerable internal targets – just because your Exchange Server doesn’t have internet-facing authentication doesn’t mean it’s protected,” Breen said.

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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. “If governments fail to prioritize this source of threat, violence originating from the Internet will affect regular people.”

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 20, 2022

Remote workforces, cloud applications and storage, the use of smartphones and other devices not under organizational control (BYOD), modern cyberattack techniques, hardware and software components sourced from around the world, vulnerabilities in Internet of Things devices, and various other practically-speaking unchangeable realities have both individually, (..)

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

February 6, 2024 is Safer Internet Day. When I was asked to write about the topic, I misunderstood the question and heard: “can you cover save the internet” and we all agreed that it might be too late for that. The internet has been around for quite some time now, and most of us wouldn’t know what to do without it.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2021

Top three patterns in breaches were: social engineering, basic web application attacks, and system intrusion. Top three patterns in incidents were: denial of service, basic web application attacks, and social engineering. Even the median random organization with an internet presence has 17 internet-facing assets.

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The State of Security

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

Breen said while Microsoft’s patch notes indicate that an attacker must already have gained access to a vulnerable host in the network, this is typically achieved through social engineering attacks with spear phishing to gain initial access to a host before searching for other internal targets.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Based on Ransomlooker, a free Cybernews tool for monitoring the dark web and other hidden areas of the internet, 64% of organizations have already suffered from a ransomware attack. The MGM attacks were almost identical to the social engineering attacks on Caesars, which targeted a third-party IT help desk.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

In the United States, when federal, state or local law enforcement agencies wish to obtain information about an account at a technology provider — such as the account’s email address, or what Internet addresses a specific cell phone account has used in the past — they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added to the many user-friendly digital tools scammers, sextortionists, and hackers can leverage in order to manipulate their victims.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. This disables peer-to-peer access, enabling internet-only access.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2024

“CVE-2024-30051 is used to gain initial access into a target environment and requires the use of social engineering tactics via email, social media or instant messaging to convince a target to open a specially crafted document file,” Narang said.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Then one day, while scouring the Internet for signs that others may have been phished by Daniel, he encountered Griffin posting on Reddit about the phone number involved in his recent bitcoin theft. This process, he explained, essentially self-selects people who are more likely to be susceptible to their social engineering schemes. [It

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. Always remember.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Top of the critical heap is CVE-2021-40444 , which affects the “MSHTML” component of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions. For a complete rundown of all patches released today and indexed by severity, check out the always-useful Patch Tuesday roundup from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

“Exploitation would require social engineering to entice a victim to open an attachment or visit a malicious website,” he said. As usual, the SANS Internet Storm Center has a per-patch breakdown by severity and impact. “Thankfully the Windows preview pane is not a vector for this attack.”

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier. Prevent intrusions.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

During the reporting period, key findings include: DDoS and ransomware rank the highest among the prime threats, with social engineering, data related threats, information manipulation, supply chain, and malware following.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In August 2024, a cybercriminal began selling Social Security numbers and other personal information stolen from National Public Data, a private data broker in Florida that collected and sold SSNs and contact data for a significant slice of the American population. national infrastructure.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Related: How PKI could secure the Internet of Things If that sounds too complicated to grasp, take a look at the web address for the home page of this website. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Take note of how the URL begins with HTTPS.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Additionally, keep in mind that while Lockdown Mode may make it more difficult for attackers to exploit social engineering in order to compromise devices, until Apple more strictly controls what apps it allows in its app store , potential government spying remains a major problem. Is that really true?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

And usually details such as these are accessed by cyber criminals to launch social engineering driven attacks in the future. Korea Internet and Security Agency was informed on a formal note on the incident and the matter has also been taken to the notice of Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks. IoT Vulnerabilities: With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the number of IoT-related cyber attacks is expected to increase by 25% in 2024.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2021

The cleaner’s insider access takes care of the physical access challenge, while detachment to the organization makes the individual more susceptible to social engineering. There is an abundance of social engineering techniques, of which many are sinister, such as blackmail. The Faceless Man.

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