The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Using routine social engineering strategies, the cyber-thieves gathered information about key employees. Professional networking and social media platforms continue to prove a rich landscape for phone numbers, locations, hobbies, dates of birth, family members, and friendships.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. “ SpyLoan apps exploit official app stores like Google Play, deceptive branding, and social media ads to appear credible. ” reads the report published McAfee.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions. Deepfakes are revolutionizing social engineering attacks, making them more deceptive and harder to detect.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. “ SpyLoan apps exploit official app stores like Google Play, deceptive branding, and social media ads to appear credible. ” reads the report published McAfee.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Guidebooks are also available to instruct on how to exploit the information obtained, in order to more effectively target victims through social engineering and doxxing campaigns.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged that “a small number” of customer domain names had been modified after a “limited” number of GoDaddy employees fell for a social engineering scam. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2025

One of the most revealing recent cases involves the abuse of Email Marketing Platforms like MailChimp, whose accounts are being compromised through account takeover (ATO), phishing, and social engineering tactics.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com) com) targeting AT&T employees.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

The actors used social engineering techniques and, in some cases, posed as members of the victim company’s IT help desk, using their knowledge of the employee’s personally identifiable information—including name, position, duration at company, and home address—to gain the trust of the targeted employee.” ” SMASH & GRAB.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal support and account admin tool to obtain information about 133 customers.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The majority of the records were labelled as background checks which contained full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, employment history, family members, social media accounts, and criminal record history. SL Data Services markets itself as a provider of real estate information reports.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 20, 2022

So, let’s cut through the marketing fluff and understand what Zero Trust is – and, even before that that, what Zero Trust Is not. And, in many (if not most cases), the term is being misused – even by the very vendors who claim to be the ones delivering zero trust to the world. Zero Trust is not something that you can achieve overnight.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market their cybercriminal wares and services. He said while the Coronavirus has forced reshipping operators to make painful shifts in several parts of their business, the overall market for available mules has never looked brighter.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

He further highlights the role of employee training in cyber resilience, suggesting that organizations implement regular training sessions to help employees recognize social engineering tactics. The EDR market is explicitly endpoint DETECTION and RESPONSEthey're not intended to disrupt all attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Cybersecurity awareness training helps staff recognize phishing scams , social engineering attempts, and other threats. Regularly backing up data to a secure, offline location can mitigate the damage if a ransomware attack occurs, allowing you to recover data without succumbing to ransom demands.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” com, marketing@domain[.]com). What Happened? In October 2024, ReliaQuest responded to an alert for Impacket activity. noreply@domain[.]com, com, support@domain[.]com,

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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. They map to the CIS controls for recommendations. 85% of breaches involved a human element.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches. Marketing efforts will increasingly highlight these autonomous AI models as the next frontier, touting their ability to detect, respond to, and even mitigate threats in real-time – all without human input.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Market Growth: AI cyber security technology is projected to grow by 23.6% Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks. Market Size: The AI cyber security market was worth around $17.4

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

Called Xanthorox AI, the tool was first spotted earlier this year on darknet forums and encrypted chat groups, where its being marketed as the killer of WormGPT and all EvilGPT variants. But this isnt just another tweaked version of a chatbot. Xanthorox is something entirely different and far more advanced.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The fraudster commences the social engineering by irritating the targeted victim, and then follows up with an an offer to alleviate the annoyance. Audian Paxson is Director of Technical Product Marketing at Ironscales , an Atlanta-based email security company. One must admire the ingenuity of cybercriminals.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

AI chat tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claudefrom OpenAI competitor Anthropiccan brainstorm ideas for marketing materials, write book reports, compose poems, and even review human-written text for legibility. They can even mimic the styles of famous artists, like Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Picasso.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

But there are some good reasons for this trend: The global gaming market is booming—and is expected to reach $219 billion by 2024. Phishing and social engineering. Gaming is now an online social activity. Watch for phishing and social engineering. Why are cyber threats to gamers on the rise?

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Multi-Factor Authentication ( MFA ) can tremendously increase their access security and prevent phishing and social engineering attacks. About the essayist: Dr. Heiko Klarl is Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, iC Consult Group , a Munich, Germany-based supplier of IAM solutions.

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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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect. Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

. – June 21, 2023 – Axiad , a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today announced the results of its Passwordless Authentication survey fielded by Enterprise Research Group (ERG), a full-service market research company. and Canada were surveyed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Security experts say that such servers that are left unprotected could act as access points to hackers who can then siphon data and then indulge in robo-calling frauds, phishing & extortion tactics via social engineering attacks. GB data with no password protection that resulted in exposure of around 2.6

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? Social engineering schemes range from covert to obvious. OnePercent Group attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

A little more than a week later, cybersecurity firm Armorblox outlined an account takeover attack that leveraged malicious phishing and social engineering. In Armobox’s research, hackers used email with a socially engineered payload. Social Engineering Not Going Away. Spoofed Zoom email.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

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SC Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. “B” is obviously the correct choice, but not all companies succeed in motivating their workers to learn the ins and outs of phishing, social engineering and other cyber threats.

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