fight-long-game-social-engineering 
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Sophisticated cybercriminals are playing the long game. Unlike the typical hit-and-run cyber attacks, they build trust before laying their traps. They create a story so believable and intertwined with trust that even the most careful individuals can get caught in a trap set over time.
KnowBe4
DECEMBER 13, 2023
CISA sent out a warning about a Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) called Star Blizzard warning about their long-game social engineering tactics.
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number. “And we are constantly working to fight against it,” the statement reads.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 22, 2022
In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN). One of several IQOR support engineers who told LAPSUS$ no over and over again.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 28, 2021
The general message on vulnerabilities at the conference is that cybersecurity is a constant game of preparing for the latest and most dangerous tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). Malware detection has long been a game of signature detection. Also Read: Cybersecurity Becomes A Government Priority.
ForAllSecure
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
AI is almost good enough at simulating human activity to defeat the biometric systems designed to fight fraud, effectively putting us back at square one. Alan Turing questioned this in the 1950s and thus we have the Turing test, or what was originally known then as the imitation game. Say you want to take over someone’s account.
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 19, 2021
He credits one engineer at the Chinese propaganda department for helping solve a mystery that resulted in the largest film piracy takedown operation of all time, anywhere in the world. One was the fight against piracy, second time was the DVD standard. Vamosi: The blacklisted server was only getting started.
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