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Symantec experts warn European organizations of sophisticated social engineering attacks that have targeted at least 14 companies from France. While most of the impacted organizations appear to be from France, victims have also been spotted in Romania and Luxembourg.
According to Symantec, the attacks start with a p... |
14 May 2013
07:54 GMT |
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A security researcher that uses the online moniker TibitXimer claims that Skype accounts can be easily hacked by social engineering the company’s support team. He came to this conclusion after his own account had been hijacked six times in a single day. TibitXimer says that accounts can be taken over by anyon... |
29 April 2013
07:27 GMT |
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Back in February, we learned that a number of oil rigs and platforms had been targeted by cyberattacks which, in some cases, even managed to knock systems offline. Oil and gas companies have begun to realize that computer security is not something that should be taken lightly and some of them have already started doi... |
5 April 2013
06:59 GMT |
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BitInstant is the latest Bitcoin exchange website to fall victim to hackers. The company was forced to shut down its website between Thursday and Monday to address the issue. According to a statement made by the company’s representatives, the attackers haven’t managed to gain access to any personal ... |
6 March 2013
10:11 GMT |
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Hack in the Box 2013 Amsterdam (HITB2013AMS) will host all sorts of interesting talks and competitions. One of these competitions is the Sogeti Social Engineering Challenge 2013.
Sogeti aims at raising awareness among organizations on the importance of effective security policies that can help them avoid reputation-... |
25 February 2013
18:21 GMT |
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In his latest blog post, John McAfee briefly introduces the girls that helped him gather intelligence on the Belizean government. As described in an earlier post, he purchased a number of 75 laptop computers, installed malware on them and gave them out as gifts to various Belizean officials. Then, he hired “... |
15 January 2013
04:48 GMT |
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The climax of the John McAfee saga appears to be over, but the antivirus guru still has a lot to say about his Belizean adventures. In his last blog post, he described how he and his girlfriend Sam managed to escape from Belize after authorities started pursuing him for the murder of his neighbor. McAfee claims that... |
28 December 2012
07:27 GMT |
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In its latest Security Threat Report, Sophos makes some interesting predictions for 2013. According to one of them, the latest exploit mitigation technologies will make it more difficult for cybercriminals to leverage software vulnerabilities in their attacks.
Over the past year, we’ve learned about numerous ... |
7 December 2012
18:31 GMT |
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The prank call made by the hosts of Sydney-based radio station 2Day FM to the King Edward VII Hospital in London – where the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton has been admitted – highlights the dangers posed by social engineering attacks.
While the phone call in which the hosts pretended to be Queen El... |
6 December 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Would you pay $900 (730 EUR) to take part in discussions on business strategies and ideas? If you did, you should be on the lookout for spam emails that advertise the Product Development Summits.
Here’s how these emails look like:
Hi [recipient name], hope all is well. On behalf of our Board, I wanted to pers... |
14 August 2012
09:15 GMT |
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If you own a company and you want to register it in an online directory, you should beware of these shady emails. They purport to come from the World Trade Register and they try to trick customers into paying fairly large amounts of money for services that, at first glance, appear to be free.
MX Lab experts reveal ... |
10 July 2012
04:42 GMT |
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The controversial UGNazi group claims to have gained access to Google’s Mark Monitor account by social engineering an employee into associating one of the hackers’ email address with google.com. “So, Today, we are releasing our statement on that no one on the Internet is safe from UGNazi. On June... |
15 June 2012
05:39 GMT |
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As we’ve mentioned on previous occasions, this year’s Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference in Amsterdam will feature a lot of great speakers and challenges. One of these will be the “Social Engineering and CTF Challenge” created and run by Sogeti Nederland B.V. “With #SSEC2012, So... |
17 May 2012
09:02 GMT |
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The release of Opera 11.62 is catalogued by the company as being a “recommended security and stability update” in which not only vulnerabilities are addressed, but also a number of functionality issues.
The improvements made in the security sector are important because most of them are made to prevent cy... |
27 March 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Wells Fargo, the world renowned bank, fell for a plot cleverly designed by a skilled social engineer and wired him the sum of $2.1 million (1.5 million EUR) to a bank account in Hong Kong without questioning his identity too much.
According to Forbes, the hospital chain Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) whose escrow ac... |
1 March 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has been recently blamed for a number of security issues with the Xbox Live service and, in order to mark Safer Internet Day, the company has issued a statement showing its commitment to keeping Xbox Live users as safe as possible.
Alex Gardner, who is the general manager working on the Xbox Live service, ... |
8 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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At this year's Defcon conference, researchers from Social Engineer tested the reactions of 14 companies to see how fast they give in to social engineering attempts. The results show that sooner or later most organizations fail.
As it turns out, businesses that deal with customers in retail settings tended to be... |
1 November 2011
06:05 GMT |
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A code fragment of a threat discovered as starting its mission on social media networks is suspected to be a new bot called Andromeda, which is very similar to the now infamous ZeuS and SpyEye, known for targeting digital assets all around the globe.
Cybercriminals will combine social engineering with other types of... |
26 October 2011
08:52 GMT |
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Researchers tried to determine which methods are the most efficient in social engineering operations launched by cybercriminals to get our trust and then our belongings.
Social-engineer.org released the results of a poll that tried to determine which is the best way for a social engineer to manipulate a victim, by... |
20 October 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Social engineering is the top malware propagation tactic, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 11 Report(SIRv11), which includes data harvested in the first half of 2011.
The report reveals that social engineering is used more than any other techniques to spread malicious code, and that m... |
12 October 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Green card lottery spam email was seen once again running in the wild, but this time its content is so confusing that it's hard for the victim to understand if he is really going to America or somewhere in Asia.
GFI Labs informed us of this latest scheme which also offers free airline tickets to the lucky win... |
29 September 2011
04:56 GMT |
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The results of a test show that some of the most important companies in Australia are highly vulnerable against cybercriminals, their security being breached almost instantly after the examination began.
According to SC Magazine, the penetration testing firm Securus Global, conducted a series of infiltration test... |
13 September 2011
03:56 GMT |
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A new hoax is circulating across the internet, this time the victims being unknowing college students who require a loan in order to start a new year at the university.According to Sophos, students receive an email from Directgov UK, in which they are told that a problem has emerged regarding their student loan.The ... |
5 September 2011
05:25 GMT |
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The German Federal Police (BKA) has warned consumers about a new banking trojan that tricks victims into transferring money out of their accounts by themselves.While that might sound improbable, the attack is actually very sneaky and relies on web injects, a technique commonly used by banking trojans to modify pages ... |
29 July 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Ten years ago the Anna Kournikova email worm broke out, infecting millions of computers around the world and teaching everyone a hard lesson in social engineering.The malware was created by a 20-year old Dutch programmer named Jan de Wit, who used a virus generator downloaded from the Internet.Written in Visual Basic... |
11 February 2011
08:58 GMT |
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A study performed by a customer experience research firm revealed that many call center operators from Australian banks can be tricked into helping callers obtain information about other people's accounts.For their benchmark, the company, called Global Reviews, made twenty calls to the customer service hotlines ... |
11 January 2011
13:52 GMT |
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How about this for a New Year’s resolution: I will not/no longer fall victim to social engineering schemes. It’s really not that difficult, all that users have to do is mind the source that’s offering them downloads, updates, free software, or any other type of incentive, but also unsolicited antiv... |
4 January 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Gamers looking to get the Recon Armor in the latest iteration of the Halo franchise (Halo: Reach) should think twice about using “alternative” methods. Microsoft is warning fans of the game to steer clear of some code generators which promise to deliver the rare armor, but instead infect their computers ... |
4 October 2010
07:38 GMT |
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Thousands of Twitter users, including high-ranking officials from top companies like Google or Cisco failed to read the fine print and gave a questionable application access to post messages from their profile.An application developed by a Scottish teenager took Twitter by storm yesterday after it began advertising ... |
18 August 2010
04:35 GMT |
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Malware researchers from Microsoft are warning that users are tricked into flooding the 4chan image board by manually executing malicious JavaScript code hidden in an image.The social engineering attack starts with users receiving a PNG image which displays instructions to copy it in Paint, save it as an HTA file and... |
10 August 2010
11:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is expanding a very successful security feature from Internet Explorer 8 to protect users of its Cloud services and applications from social engineering attacks and account abuse. Essentially, the Redmond company announced the introduction of SmartScreen for URLs for its Windows Live Wave 4 offerings. As a ... |
7 July 2010
07:49 GMT |
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A security researcher has revealed a new method of launching executables embedded in PDF files, without exploiting any particular vulnerability. The technique, which employs a bit of social engineering, can also be used to infect previously clean PDF documents residing on the system.Vulnerabilities that allow for arb... |
2 April 2010
12:14 GMT |
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The hacker credited with pulling off the most damaging hack against Twitter to date, which resulted in the leak of thousands of confidential corporate documents, was arrested by authorities in France. However, the Frenchman was questioned about an earlier attack involving unauthorized access to several high profile T... |
25 March 2010
11:06 GMT |
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A malicious ad that silently infected visitors with scareware has made its way on Gizmodo. The incident was the result of a successful social engineering attack directed at the ad sales team of Gawker Media, the site's owner. Gizmodo is a popular technology blog owned by Gawker Media, an online media company co... |
28 October 2009
06:50 GMT |
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As a direct result of a phishing scheme, the credentials for approximately 20,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts have been leaked in the wild, and published on the Pastebin website. The leak was made public at the start of this week, and confirmed officially by Microsoft. This means that approximately 20,000 Windows L... |
7 October 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that sensitive data for several thousand Windows Live Hotmail accounts has been leaked in the wild. The details, including the passwords and usernames necessary to access the Hotmail accounts, were published on Pastebin. Microsoft has asked the website to remove the data as it was i... |
6 October 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new Koobface variant is currently making the rounds on Twitter. However, while the lure remains the same, the underlying social engineering has been improved to make them more credible.Koobface is one of the first and, at the same time, one of the most successful, social networking wo... |
7 August 2009
10:02 GMT |
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It was not any particular vulnerability that a French hacker exploited in order to get his hands on Twitter confidential corporate documents. According to his own account, it was patience and determination combined with the inherent security weaknesses in today's Web 2.0 ecosystem. TechCrunch, one of the first ... |
21 July 2009
05:31 GMT |
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This is shaping up to be a very bad year for micro-blogging platform Twitter, as far as its security is concerned. Last week, a hacker obtained access to a Twitter administrative account and subsequently leaked private information from ten profiles, including some belonging to celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Lily... |
4 May 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Microsoft's claims that it has invested heavily in bulletproofing Internet Explorer 8 as much as possible are by no means a simple marketing strategy to pass the browser as offering a high level of security for end users. In fact, a recent study performed by the NSS Labs signaled out IE8 as the safest browser co... |
26 March 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned users against fake emails claiming to be from the Windows Live team asking them for their account data. The Redmond company has described a scenario in which the fraudulent email messages masquerading as being sent from Windows Live request sensitive information such as username, password, date o... |
17 March 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro are warning against a new variant of the infamous Koobface worm that is targeting social networking users. While developing the new version, the worm writers have paid a lot of attention to details in an attempt to make their scheme as believable as possible. Koobface is... |
2 March 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Security researchers have documented a new malware attack, with an intriguing physical component. The attackers have used fake parking violation fliers in order to direct people to a malicious website installing malware. A lot of individuals are sensitive to spam and are able to realize when they're being serve... |
5 February 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Cyber-crooks don't need to worry about the language barrier anymore while scheming to defraud individuals or financial institutions. A new underground service offers social engineering services to scammers in multiple languages, Dancho Danchev, an independent security consultant, warns. As the security reasearch... |
16 December 2008
09:55 GMT |
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The writers of the Koobface worm that propagates on social networking websites have just released a new variant that is able to trick the security filters enforced by Facebook. In order to achieve this, the new strain makes use of the website's own features against itself. The Koobface worm was first detected b... |
6 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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The National Police Service in Ireland is investigating a major credit card scam in which information of over 20,000 credit and debit cards has been stolen. The attackers posed as bank service personnel and attached rogue devices to card readers in stores from northeast Ireland. The captured data was then sent on the... |
20 August 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Apple is riding a success wave fueled by the market performance of the Mac computers. And while the Cupertino-based hardware company was pushing in excess of 2.15 million Macs per month back in the third quarter of 2007, ahead of the advent of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, its proprietary operating system also grows its own... |
16 January 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Free porn and free security, especially designed for the Windows operating system. If such offerings sound too good to be true, that's because they actually are. Generally speaking, free pornographic content, from JPEG files to full movies, as well as free security solutions, both hosted online or desktop based,... |
18 October 2007
13:31 GMT |
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Free pornographic movies and nude images of Hollywood stars such as Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry, fail to deliver on both the promise of a free ride and that of sexual explicit content. And the fact of the matter is that the content adjacent to such promises is as far as possible from sexual and explicit. Pornograp... |
2 October 2007
13:54 GMT |
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Free pornographic content and the Windows platform simply mix. The is a very thin line between scantly clothed girls in sexually explicit scenarios and the Windows operating system, especially if Internet Explorer is involved. The promise of free porn is hard to resist, and generally it is a sufficient incentive for ... |
28 September 2007
13:44 GMT |
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