Tag: social-engineering
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Insight Partners impacted by social engineering attack
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/insight-partners-impacted-by-social-engineering-attack
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Ukrainian Signal Users Fall to Russian Social Engineering
Google Expects Tactics to Spread; Global Targets and Other Services at Risk. Russian nation-state hackers are using phishing attacks to target Ukrainian users of the chat app Signal, say security researchers. Rather than circumventing Signal’s end-to-end encryption via a cryptographic attack, attackers use malicious prompting to prod victims into exposing messages. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Cyber Investor Insight Partners Suffers Security Breach
Venture capital firm Insight Partners, which counts Recorded Future, SentinelOne and Wiz in its portfolio, confirmed an intrusion into its systems via a social engineering attack First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/insight-partners-security-breach/
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Venture capital giant Insight Partners hit by cyberattack
New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/venture-capital-giant-insight-partners-hit-by-cyberattack/
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Wie Deepseek für Betrugsmaschen missbraucht wird
Mit dem Fortschritt künstlicher Intelligenz entwickeln sich auch die Methoden von Cyberkriminellen weiter. Der jüngste Anstieg KI-gestützter Betrugsmaschen rund um Deepseek zeigt, wie generative KI gezielt für Social-Engineering eingesetzt wird. Angreifer nutzen diese Technologie, um täuschend echte Phishing-Angriffe zu starten, Desinformationen zu verbreiten und Nutzer geschickt zur Preisgabe sensibler Informationen zu manipulieren. Während Unternehmen verstärkt…
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Beware! Fake Outlook Support Calls Leading to Ransomware Attacks
Telekom Security has recently uncovered a significant vishing (voice phishing) campaign targeting individuals and organizations across Germany. This operation appears to be linked to a ransomware group employing sophisticated social engineering tactics. The attackers impersonate Microsoft Outlook support personnel, aiming to trick victims into granting access to their systems, which can lead to devastating ransomware…
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Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft Device Code Authentication in Targeted Attacks Against M365 Accounts
Tags: attack, authentication, cybersecurity, exploit, hacker, microsoft, phishing, russia, social-engineeringCybersecurity researchers at Volexity have uncovered a series of targeted phishing and social engineering campaigns by multiple Russian First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/russian-hackers-exploit-microsoft-device-code-authentication-in-targeted-attacks-against-m365-accounts/
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AI-Powered Social Engineering: Ancillary Tools and Techniques
Social engineering is advancing fast, at the speed of generative AI. This is offering bad actors multiple new tools and techniques for researching, scoping, and exploiting organizations. In a recent communication, the FBI pointed out: ‘As technology continues to evolve, so do cybercriminals’ tactics.’This article explores some of the impacts of this GenAI-fueled acceleration. And…
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24% of vulnerabilities are abused before a patch is available
Building the case for proactive security: Boris Cipot, senior security engineer at software composition analysis firm Black Duck, said that several factors contribute toward the rise in exploited vulnerabilities, including improvements in monitoring.”The software we use may simply contain more vulnerabilities, or these vulnerabilities are being reported and discovered more effectively,” Cipot said. “Some vulnerabilities…
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Hackers Manipulate Users Into Running PowerShell as Admin to Exploit Windows
Tags: cyber, cyberattack, data-breach, exploit, group, hacker, hacking, intelligence, microsoft, north-korea, powershell, social-engineering, tactics, threat, windowsMicrosoft Threat Intelligence has exposed a novel cyberattack method employed by the North Korean state-sponsored hacking group, Emerald Sleet (also known as Kimsuky or VELVET CHOLLIMA). The group is exploiting social engineering tactics to deceive individuals into running PowerShell commands with administrative privileges, allowing them to infiltrate systems and pilfer critical information. Emerald Sleet’s new…
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Phishing Season 2025: The Latest Predictions Unveiled
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, election, email, exploit, finance, google, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, login, malware, mfa, mobile, network, passkey, phishing, ransomware, risk, service, social-engineering, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, voip, vulnerability, zero-trustEvery year, cybercriminals sharpen their tools and refine their tactics to exploit network and security vulnerabilities. Gone are the days of clumsy emails with glaring typos and suspicious attachments. Instead, we face an era of new sophistication. No longer just stealing credentials, attackers are creating intricate digital narratives that make it difficult to distinguish friend…
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New Scareware Attack Targeting Mobile Users to Deploy Malicious Antivirus Apps
A new wave of scareware attacks has emerged, targeting unsuspecting mobile users with fake antivirus applications designed to exploit fear and trick victims into downloading malicious software. Scareware, a type of digital fraud, employs social engineering tactics to alarm users with fabricated warnings about security threats, ultimately coercing them into taking risky actions. Scareware: A…
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AI-Powered Social Engineering: Reinvented Threats
The foundations for social engineering attacks manipulating humans might not have changed much over the years. It’s the vectors how these techniques are deployed that are evolving. And like most industries these days, AI is accelerating its evolution. This article explores how these changes are impacting business, and how cybersecurity leaders can respond.Impersonation attacks: First…
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Studie: Auch bei Smartphones Phishing Top-Sicherheitsrisiko
Eine neue globale Umfrage unter Smartphone-Nutzern offenbart eine alarmierende Realität: Phishing ist auch für mobile Sicherheit die mit großem Abstand die größte Bedrohung. Cyberkriminelle nutzen raffinierte Täuschungsmanöver, um an persönliche Daten zu gelangen. Auf Platz zwei folgen Malware und Viren meist eingeschleust durch Social-Engineering-Tricks. First seen on itsicherheit-online.com Jump to article: www.itsicherheit-online.com/news/security-management/studie-auch-bei-smartphones-phishing-top-sicherheitsrisiko/
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Cryptohack Roundup: Critical Ethereum Vulnerability
Also: Conviction in £1.5M Fraud, Sentencing in Torture and Theft Case. This week’s stories include a critical Ethereum vulnerability, conviction in a £1.5M fraud, sentencing in a torture and crypto theft case, SEC’s new roadmap, Jan crypto stats, Coinbase social engineering victims, and U.S. lawmakers’ digital assets working group. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Wahlmanipulationen mithilfe von Fehlinformationen, Social-Engineering oder Hacking
Das war mal richtig Oldschool in unserer digitalen Welt: Wenige Sekunden benötigten Angreifende, um sozusagen einen analogen Deepfake zu kreieren: Bauschaum in den Auspuff gesprüht, Aufkleber mit dem Bild des Bündnis 90/Die Grünen-Kanzlerkandidaten Habeck und dem Appell ‘Sei grüner” auf den Lack geklebt und schon war beinahe in Echtzeit die Illusion kreiert, dass die Täter…
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AI Rise: Can We Still Trust What We See?
AI-Powered Social Engineering and Deepfake Threats in 2025. Security researchers predict threat actors will use artificial intelligence and large language models to enhance phishing attacks and create convincing fake personas, while defensive AI enters a new phase of semiautonomous operations. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-rise-we-still-trust-what-we-see-a-27457
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Abandoned AWS S3 buckets open door to remote code execution, supply-chain compromises
Tags: access, advisory, antivirus, apt, attack, cisa, cloud, cybersecurity, finance, framework, government, iam, infrastructure, injection, Internet, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, military, network, open-source, programming, ransomware, remote-code-execution, risk, social-engineering, software, supply-chain, tool, update, windowsCode references to nonexistent cloud assets continue to pose significant security risks, and the problem is only growing. Recent research identified approximately 150 AWS S3 storage buckets once used by various software projects to host sensitive scripts, configuration files, software updates, and other binary artifacts that were automatically downloaded and executed on user machines.Because these…
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Threat Analysis: Einblick in die E-Mail Security-Landschaft für das Jahr 2025
Tags: ai, cyberattack, cyersecurity, deep-fake, group, mail, phishing, qr, social-engineering, threatJährliche Studie zu E-Mail-Bedrohungen prognostiziert, dass Infostealer, BEC-Angriffe sowie KI-gesteuertes Phishing und Social Engineering auch im Jahr 2025 zu den weiter anhaltenden Bedrohungen zählen neben der Verwendung von QR-Codes, Deepfakes und synthetischen Medien. Die VIPRE Security Group, ein weltweit tätiges Unternehmen für Cybersicherheit, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, stellt seinen jährlich erscheinenden Bericht zur E-Mail-Bedrohungslandschaft unter… First…
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Hackers Mimic USPS To Deliver Malicious PDF In Attack Targeted Mobile Devices
Tags: attack, communications, credentials, cyber, hacker, malicious, mobile, phishing, service, social-engineering, tacticsIn a detailed analysis published on January 27, 2025, Zimperium’s zLabs team uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting mobile devices through malicious PDF files. Disguised as communications from the United States Postal Service (USPS), this campaign employs advanced social engineering and obfuscation tactics to steal user credentials and sensitive data. The campaign reportedly spans more…
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Insurance companies can reduce risk with Attack Path Management
Tags: access, attack, backdoor, blueteam, breach, business, credentials, credit-card, data, identity, insurance, login, microsoft, network, risk, social-engineering, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityTL;DR Insurance companies host large amounts of sensitive data (PII, PHI, etc.) and often have complex environments due to M&A and divestitures Most breaches start with human error Fortune 500 companies rely on Microsoft Active Directory as a backbone for Identity and Access Management Attackers target Active Directory to move laterally and escalate privilege An Attack…
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Hackers Deliver Ransomware on Windows Via Microsoft Teams Voice Calls
Sophos X-Ops’ Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team has uncovered two highly active threat actor clusters exploiting Microsoft Office 365 to target organizations. Identified as STAC5143 and STAC5777, these clusters use advanced social engineering tactics, such as email bombing, fake Microsoft Teams tech support calls, and misuse of Microsoft tools, like Quick Assist and Teams’…
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25 on 2025: APAC security thought leaders share their predictions and aspirations
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cryptography, csf, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, deep-fake, detection, disinformation, encryption, endpoint, exploit, extortion, finance, framework, fraud, government, group, hacking, Hardware, identity, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, international, iot, malicious, malware, microsoft, monitoring, network, nist, phishing, privacy, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, scam, service, skills, social-engineering, software, spear-phishing, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, warfare, zero-trustAs threat actors and security teams harness the growing potential of artificial intelligence (AI), who will prevail? From generative AI (GenAI) to agentic AI, we look through the lens of 25 of Asia-Pacific’s thought leaders in security and dive into their predictions and goals for the year. src=”https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Athikom.jpg?quality=50&strip=all” alt=”athikom” loading=”lazy” width=”400px”>Athikom Kanchanavibhu Chief Information Security…
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Life at SpecterOps Part II: From Dream to Reality
Tags: automation, conference, jobs, linkedin, open-source, RedTeam, social-engineering, software, tool, trainingTL;DR We are hiring consultants at various levels. The job posting can be found under the Consultant opening here: specterops.io/careers/#careers Introduction Hey, it’s me again! The last time we spoke back in August 2024, I told you all about life and some of the intangible benefits of working as a consultant at SpecterOps. In that…
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Microsoft Teams vishing attacks trick employees into handing over remote access
Tags: access, attack, backdoor, control, credentials, cybercrime, data, detection, email, exploit, group, hacking, lockbit, malicious, malware, microsoft, monitoring, network, office, password, phishing, powershell, ransomware, russia, service, social-engineering, sophos, spam, tactics, threat, tool, vpn, windowsAttackers believed to be affiliated with ransomware groups have recently been observed using a technique in which they bombard employees with spam emails and then call them on Microsoft Teams posing as technical support representatives from their organizations.The goal of this formerly uncovered social engineering tactic is to create a sense of urgency and trick…
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Gootloader Malware Employs Blackhat SEO Techniques To Attack Victims
The Gootloader malware family employs sophisticated social engineering tactics to infiltrate computers. By leveraging compromised legitimate WordPress websites, Gootloader’s operators manipulate Google search results to redirect users to a deceptive online message board. They link the malware to a simulated conversation featuring fictitious users, effectively answering the exact queries victims input into search engines. Investigate…
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Scam Yourself attacks: How social engineering is evolving
We’ve entered a new era where verification must come before trust, and for good reason. Cyber threats are evolving rapidly, and one of the trends getting a fresh reboot in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/21/scam-yourself-attacks/