Social Engineering

Law Enforcement, Microsoft Disrupt Operations of Popular Lumma Stealer
International law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity vendors seized thousands of domains used to run the MaaS operations of the widely popular Lumma Stealer malware, which was used to facilitate ransomware, malvertising, and ...
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The Coinbase Data Breach: A Breakdown of What Went Wrong
Deepak Gupta - Tech Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Author | | Breach, Coinbase, customer data, Cybersecurity, data protection, Data Security, Infrastructure, social engineering
How did a $400 million data breach happen at Coinbase? It wasn't a tech failure—it was a human one. Learn how social engineering exploited trust and what it means for cybersecurity ...

Warning to US Retail: ‘Scattered Spider’ Targets YOU (with DragonForce Ransomware)
Richi Jennings | | 0ktapus, attacks on online retailers, Co-op, Dembe Zuma, DragonForce, google, Harrods, internet retailers, John Hultquist, Mandiant, Marks & Spencer, Muddled Libra, online retailer, Online Retailers, online retailers cyber threats, Ransomware, Raymond Reddington, retail, Retail & Commerce, Retail & Consumer Goods, Retail & e-commerce, Retail and E-Commerce, Retail Cybersecurity, Retail Industry, SB Blogwatch, Scatter Swine, scattered spider, Starfraud, the Com, the Community, UNC3944
Arachnid alarm: Three major British retailers recently attacked, resulting in huge damage. Now we see the self-same scum spotlighting stores in the States ...
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The Growing and Changing Threat of Deepfake Attacks
Enterprises should extend deepfake-awareness training and mitigation techniques beyond C-suite executives to address the increasingly likely threat against other roles in the company. ...
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Ensuring High Availability and Resilience in the ‘Everything App’ Era
Bhooshan Thakar | | data resilience, digital-first, everything apps, high availability, infrastructure strain, social media
This critical shift of social media apps becoming “mission-critical” everything apps requires a different approach when it comes to resiliency. ...
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Treasury Moves to Ban Huione Group for Laundering $4 Billion
The Treasury Department is moving to cut off Huione Group, a Cambodian conglomerate, from the U.S. financial system, saying the firm and its multiple entities laundered billions of dollars for North Korea's ...
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North Korean Group Creates Fake Crypto Firms in Job Complex Scam
The North Korean hackers behind the Contagious Interview worker scam, which threat intelligence analysts have followed since late 2023, are now hiding behind three bogus crypto companies they created as fronts for ...
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The Human Advantage in the Age of Technological Uncertainties
Steve Durbin | | AI, AI-based technology, deepfakes, human creativity, humans, inclusive learning., quantum computing, technology
Our excessive reliance on technology has disabled us from crossing the barriers to experience, sense, and relate with others the way we used to. ...
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Massive Increase to Unwanted Cell Calls
Something happened this weekend — starting on Monday my cellphone has been lighting up with unknown callers — a 30x increase! I rarely give out the number so I assume one of the following:Ended up on a ...

Asian Scam Farms: ‘Industrial Scale,’ Warns UN Report
Richi Jennings | | #CryptoScam, #InvestmentScam, #PigButchering, Amazon Phishing Scams, AppleCare Warranty Scam, bank scam, bitcoin ATM scam, bitcoin scam, bitcoin transfer scams, gift card, gift card fraud, Gift Card Gang, gift card scams, gift cards, GiftCardScams, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, social media intelligence, United Nations, UNODC
Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar ...
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