KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. The DBIR Figure 35 shows that Pretexting is now more prevalent than Phishing in Social Engineering incidents.

Phishing 75

Phishing Passwords Data breaches Security awareness 75

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. The threat actors sent the messages from e-mail addresses created on the public service “@outlook.com.”

Systems administration 92

Systems administration Military Phishing Government 92

eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

They found a tool called WormGPT “through a prominent online forum that’s often associated with cybercrime,” Kelley wrote in a blog post. ” Just last week, Acronis reported that AI tools like ChatGPT have been behind a 464% increase in phishing attacks this year.

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Phishing Systems administration Cybersecurity Marketing 98

IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

If you’re interested in detailed breakdowns of these incidents, why not subscribe to our Weekly Round-up or visit our blog , where we have a dedicated series on phishing scams ? San Diego school district investigating after online grading system hacked (unknown). Louis Community College caught out by phishing scam (5,100).

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Personal data 145

The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

Wipro issued a media statement , via its Economic Times division, acknowledging “potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign. One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover.

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Digital transformation Systems administration Phishing Ransomware 173

IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Many attacks are caused by phishing emails that contain infected attachments.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Phishing Insurance Systems administration 87

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.

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