SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

These include: Home personal networks, wired and wireless, including network reconnaissance and device inventorying. Devices owned by other companies that may be using the same network, wired or wireless, due to other family members working from home. SMishing is social engineering in the form of SMS text messages.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Some services also target other popular social media platforms or financial services, providing email phishing and SIM swapping capabilities.”. Phishing, Social Engineering are Still Problems. OTP Interception Services Emerge. Without employee education, issues like this will continue to impact businesses.”

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

CISA and the FBI consider Scattered Spider to be experts that use multiple social engineering techniques, especially phishing, push bombing, and SIM swap attacks, to obtain credentials, install remote access tools, and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). com, victimname-servicedesk[.]com com or victimname-okta[.]com.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2022

But this could have easily led to nefarious payloads, like malware, and some have already classed this as a smishing (or “SMS phishing”) attempt. Interestingly, Welch said, the texts appear to be targeting users of Verizon Wireless, one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the US.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

57% of organizations face weekly or daily phishing attempts, while injection attacks have become increasingly prevalent. Role of Social Engineering Social engineering has emerged as the predominant attack vector, accounting for 41% of initial breach incidents.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Most operations use payloads, but there are a few payload-less attacks, such as phishing campaigns that do not include malicious links or malware , but rely on more sophisticated deception such as spoofing to trick their targets. Such hackers don’t bother with social engineering or complex scenarios that only give a low success rate.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Most attacks make would-be victims click to install malware or redirect them to a phishing page to steal their credentials. There is no need for social engineering , as the program can implant backdoors directly without forced consent. Zero-click attacks remove this hurdle. Spyware and Zero-Days: A Troubling Market.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2023

and different types of penetration tests (black box, gray box, white box, social engineering, etc.). Number of people: If an organization decides to pursue social engineering tests, the organization may be charged by the number of people in the organization (unless flat-rate or hourly charges are used).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Wireless network vulnerability assessment: This type of assessment focuses on finding weaknesses in wireless networks, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks, and connected devices. Social engineering methods include phishing , baiting, and tailgating.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., phishing) Memory corruptions Wi-Fi attacks Kali is a wonderful toolbox, because it has tools for a wide range of pentests.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

There are two primary types of emails that attackers use to infiltrate an end user system or compromise credentials or other sensitive or otherwise protected types of information – phishing emails and emails with embedded malicious links. What is CIO fraud? An Attacker sends an email posing as the CIO of the business.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

AUGUST 28, 2024

In a previous Labs post, “ I Don’t Need a Badge – Lessons Learned from Physical Social Engineering ”, we introduced the ESPKey as a method of capture. This applies to anything from covert entry, phishing, or internal infrastructure engagements, depending on the scope.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 4, 2023

wlan0 eth0 Free-Wifi This command will use wlan0 which is the wireless interface for creating the access point, and the second interface eth0 will be used to give internet access to the users when they have submitted the login credentials. The internet interface can be wired or wireless, but obviously, the AP interface needs to be wireless.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Training must be more frequent and go beyond covering phishing and passwords. In the past 5-10 years, privacy and information security training vendors have moved to narrowing focus to largely phishing awareness and password security. Phishing and passwords are certainly important and should be covered with effective training.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. Dateline Cybercrime . It is thought to be the first computer virus. . billion dollars in damages.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers. Unfortunately, while symmetric encryption is a faster method, it also is less secure. Asymmetric Cryptography: Need for Security.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

If you read most forensic reports nowadays most of the intrusions happen through a combination of “spear-phishing / social engineering” attacks and technical exploits. Authenticated scans help figuring out how many versions of outdated Java or Adobe Reader softwares are present in the user’s workstations.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Asset Discovery Controls Unauthorized devices can intercept or redirect network traffic through attacks such as connecting unauthorized computers to the network, deploying packet sniffers to intercept network traffic, or delivering a phishing link to a man-in-the-middle attack to steal login credentials and data.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Most cyber attacks are carried out using a combination of social engineering, phishing emails, and vulnerabilities — Java, Adobe Flash and Acrobat, Firefox and Chrome plugins, 0-day client-side / browser vulnerabilities. They are usually the only way to determine whether the host has been compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 9, 2023

WithSecure Elements Vulnerability Management automatically reports activities such as phishing sites, third-party scams, and brand violations. Among the platform’s standout features is its phishing module, which is comprehensive and helps build a “human firewall” of sorts. What endpoints are covered?

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Each type of penetration test focuses on a different target: Network penetration testing Network penetration testing , also called network security testing , focuses on internal and external networks, wireless endpoints and wireless networks, email phishing, and other types of social engineering.

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NopSec

AUGUST 9, 2022

It can focus on external or internal networks or both, external and/or internal web-based applications, and other points of potential exposure that are not relevant to all organizations, such as wireless networks or point-of-sale (POS) hardware. Can the testers try phishing emails or phone calls with your employees, for example?

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 8, 2021

. ~/ kali@kali:~$ kali@kali:~$ xfce4-session-logout --reboot --fast Kali NetHunter Updates Thanks to the amazing work of @yesimxev , we have a new addition to the NetHunter app: The Social-Engineer Toolkit! A future release of kalipi-config will allow you to switch between them, if you would like to test different versions.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Marcus Scharra , Co-CEO, Senhasegura Scharra The primary takeaway from 2023 is that most cybersecurity attacks are still linked to credentials — whether it’s the use of stolen credentials, or social engineering attacks to mine new credentials. Meanwhile QR-code phishing arose as a popular form of attack.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. It would then attempt to spread via wireless Bluetooth signals. The way it spread was not through more traditional ransomware vectors like email phishing but instead through EternalBlue, a Windows exploit initially developed by the U.S.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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SecureList

JANUARY 29, 2025

Attackers also do not ignore technical progress; their use of AI at various stages of the killchain (for malicious tools development and social engineering, such as text generation for phishing emails ) reduces costs, thereby accelerating the development of cyberthreats. This tendency will certainly evolve in 2025.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2024

env) International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime The “Mad Liberator” ransomware group leverages social-engineering moves to watch out for New U.N. million to $459.8

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

billion data records with Social Security numbers Disrupting Russian Cybercrime: WWH-Club Admins Arrested International Investigation Leads to Shutdown of Ransomware Group Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks Kootenai Health Data Breach Unconfirmed Hack of 2.9

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