eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Social Tactics.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

To gain access to internal networks, Akira targeted local accounts with disabled multifactor authentication (MFA) and SonicOS firmware versions vulnerable to exploitation, often exposed to the internet for virtual private network (VPN) access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

. “Between October 16 and November 12, 2019, Proofpoint researchers observed the actor sending malicious email messages to organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States, targeting no particular vertical but with recipients that were heavily weighted towards business and IT services, manufacturing, and healthcare.”

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Navigating the internet in 2022 is more dangerous than ever for Australian netizens. Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. How Can Social Engineering Affect the Current State of Security in Australia?

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 17, 2024

It also includes network vulnerabilities, like open or unprotected ports, unpatched software, and avenues for phishing or social engineering attacks. Organisations involved in manufacturing for example may be working across legacy equipment, created for a manufacturing environment which in many cases predates the Internet completely.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

.” The duo homed in on a list of emerging technologies that could create new wrinkles in the security landscape: automation, machine learning and AI including advances in NLP and GAN, immersive digital environments, data in the digital supply chain, cyber/physical crossover, additive manufacturing and the prevalence of 5G and widescale IoT.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Globally, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and state and local governments continue to see a rise in the frequency of attacks. From internet providers to manufacturers, this continues to be an issue. Meanwhile, bad actors are finding ways to exploit devices connected to the internet at a record pace.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Toy manufacturers are striving to keep up with these trends, releasing more and more models that can also be called “smart.” ” For instance, educational robots that connect to the internet and support video calls. Toy The robot connects to a home Wi-Fi network and interacts with the application through the internet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

Other top 4 targeted industries include Manufacturing, Insurance, Technology, and Financial Services seeing 15%, 9%, 7%, and 6% of the campaign traffic respectively.” Experts warn that the Energy sector was a major focus of this campaign, followed by manufacturing, and insurance. ” continues the report.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

There was increased concerned for protection of consumer privacy because of the use of cellphones, social media, and other Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Answer: Educating employees and consumers on the topic and dangers of Phishing and Social Engineering. Answer: As an enlisted member of the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published its 2022 Internet Crime Report. The numbers are based on the complaints reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Mostly by deploying social engineering, victims are tricked into linking their cryptocurrency wallet to a fraudulent liquidity mining application.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2024

The use of voice-based social engineering to gain entry into networks is on the rise—a technique made popular by Scattered Spider and the Qakbot threat group. The report breaks down the most significant law enforcement operations against ransomware groups and initial access brokers over the past year. Top ransomware targets4.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques. compared to Q3 2023.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 24, 2021

These conditions are conductive for social engineering attacks and other digital crime attempts. Years before the pandemic struck, organizations first began adding Internet of Things (IoT) along with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices to their networks. Internet Of Things. That’s a crucial point.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Most of the infections were still at financial institutions in Vietnam, with one victim active in the manufacturing industry. For example, new persistence mechanisms were detected and we found that the loading mechanism of the final payload, the P8 beacon, also changed. In terms of victimology, there was little change.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). Malicious actors will continue to improve their social engineering tactics, making it more difficult to recognize deception and make it increasingly easier to become a victim, predicts Milbourne.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the pandemic struck, online bad actors took it as an opportunity to double-down on their attacks through ransomware, malware, and social engineering. Article by Beau Peters. Newly remote workers and remotely connected workplaces had to adapt rapidly to a greater digital threat as well as a public health crisis.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Below is our esteemed panel of SC Awards judges, contributing from health care, engineering, finance, education, manufacturing, nonprofit and consulting, among others. John Johnson is cybersecurity leader for a large consumer manufacturing company. He was also director of the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Google Security

MAY 15, 2024

Google Pixel, Honor, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, Oppo, Sharp, Transsion, and other manufacturers are deploying live threat detection later this year. The detection of suspicious behavior is done on device in a privacy preserving way through Private Compute Core, which allows us to protect users without collecting data.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The US, manufacturing sector, and professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS) sector are primary targets amidst an overall increase in ransomware attacks. This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In general, we’ve observed hacktivists in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict become more skilled and more focused on attacking large organizations such as government, manufacturing and energy entities. In the case of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, notable hacktivist groups we reported on included Twelve , Head Mare and Crypt Ghouls.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., granting them access to live and archived video feeds across multiple organizations, including manufacturing facilities, hospitals, schools, police departments and prisons. Pictured: a Dome Series security camera from Verkada.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 29, 2025

Top ransomware predictions for 2025Prediction 1: AI-powered social engineering attacks will surge and fuel ransomware campaignsIn 2025, threat actors will increasingly use generative AI (GenAI) to conduct more effective social engineering attacks. A top emerging AI-driven trend is voice phishing (vishing).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

More than 1,500 organizations worldwide spanning Financial Services, Defense, Manufacturing, Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation Systems trust OPSWAT to secure their files and devices; ensure compliance with industry and government-driven policies and regulations, and protect their reputation, finances,?

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

We investigated a long-running espionage campaign, dubbed A41APT, targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas bases, which has been active since March 2019. Final thoughts.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. GRAY: The Internet is a penetration test. That's an example of AI.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Based on current trends, NopSec has released its latest report on the 5 biggest cyber threats we expect to see this year: nation-state cyber attacks, ransomware, DDoS attacks , the Internet of Things, and social engineering & human error. For a preview, read on. (For The attack may have approached a volume of 1.2

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

A manufacturer of rubber parts in Korea. . A luxury gas fireplace manufacturer in New Zealand . A manufacturer of mechanical-electrical alternators in Italy . A furniture manufacturer and design company in Switzerland . Malware analysis researchers have also discovered that LockBit 2.0 Financials . JINYANG .

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. The manufacturer of the mobile device preloads an adware application or a component with the firmware. Trends of the year.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2022

Combined with social media propaganda, social engineering targeting, and email phishing attacks, these threat vectors could change the course of the battle well before a single shot is fired. Even with modern cyber capabilities around EDR, XDR, anti-virus updates, some of the dormant attack tools could go undetected for years.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Some applications, cloud infrastructure, networking equipment, or Internet of Things (IoT) devices may require more sophisticated ITAM or additional tools to detect them.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Unpatched exploits.

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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. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The US, manufacturing sector, and professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS) sector are primary targets amidst an overall increase in ransomware attacks. This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Moreover, even some representatives of companies manufacturing products positioned as NGFW commit this fault. "We According to the old Akamai 2019 Traffic Report, back then, 83% of HTTP traffic on the Internet was made up of API calls. Some information security specialists confuse the concepts of WAF and NGFW. or "Why do we need WAF?"

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. Did you just put a system on the internet that shouldn't be? David Brumley: We've even seen this go to medical device manufacturers where they're using it as an upgrade path: "I'm sorry you bought that expensive piece of hospital equipment that's now outdated.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. Did you just put a system on the internet that shouldn't be? David Brumley: We've even seen this go to medical device manufacturers where they're using it as an upgrade path: "I'm sorry you bought that expensive piece of hospital equipment that's now outdated.

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