Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

ybercriminals behind the PerSwaysion campaign gained access to many confidential corporate MS Office365 emails of mainly financial service companies, law firms, and real estate groups. When adopting cloud based corporate services, it is crucial to enforce 2FA authentication to mitigate risks of login credential theft.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Comprehensive training should include basic security knowledge like how to create a strong password and identify possible social engineering attacks as well as more advanced topics like risk management. Read more: Best Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems for 2021. Double-check your compliance requirements.

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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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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The social engineering aspect around phishing works because humans want to be helpful, informed, paid well, get stuff for free sometimes, and generally not end up on the wrong side of management. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I You could lose your data.'.

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