Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. This relentless innovation makes threat actors more refined, targeted, and efficient, enabling them to have a bigger impact despite efforts to curb their activities.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

By mid-2024, Scattered Spiders hallmark tactics, including social engineering and SIM-swapping, were evident in RansomHubs double extortion attacks, cementing their collaboration. The groups adaptabilityevident in its seamless transition to RansomHuband its expertise in social engineering keep it highly valuable to ransomware partners.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel. For instance, the emails displayed the targeted company’s address and logo, while the sender address featured the company’s domain name.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Vulnerability Management Product Guides 8 Best Vulnerability Scanner Tools Top 10 Open Source Vulnerability Assessment Tools 12 Top Vulnerability Management Tools Threat Intelligence and Detection At the most basic level, threat detection strategies and tools monitor networks for suspicious and anomalous activity.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 10, 2024

These services include threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response. Cyber Insurance Partnerships Cyber insurance is becoming a must-have for businesses worldwide. Cybersecurity companies often partner with insurance firms to provide risk assessments and incident recovery services to clients.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. This is likely because threat actors perceive US-based organizations to be more financially capable of paying ransoms due to well-developed cyber insurance.

Cyber Attacks 59

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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. The key enterprise cyber security risk management process Maintain increased cybersecurity awareness of major types of threats.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. This is likely because threat actors perceive US-based organizations to be more financially capable of paying ransoms due to well-developed cyber insurance.

Cyber Attacks 52

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

AI's ability to evolve and adapt will redefine the cybersecurity landscape, making threat detection smarter and more proactive.' Attacks that we see today impacting single agent systems, such as data poisoning, prompt injection, or social engineering to influence agent behavior, could all be vulnerabilities within a multi-agent system.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter released a statement indicating that this attack was the result of employees with internal access falling victim to social engineering that allowed the bad actors to take advantage of their insider privilege. In fact, larger corporations experience more insider threats than small and mid-sized businesses.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance. Insider threats are particularly insidious, as attackers increasingly rely on employeesmalicious or unwittingas entry points. But it doesnt stop there. million annually compared to those that don’t.

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