Social Engineering

Social Engineering

FBI Warns of Criminals Using Social Engineering, Technical Attacks to Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication

FBI Warns of Criminals Using Social Engineering, Technical Attacks to Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication

| | FBI, Industry News, MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication, social engineering
FBI’s Cyber Division issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) warning businesses and other organizations that criminals are using a variety of hacking attacks and social engineering to bypass multi-factor authentication. “FBI reporting ...
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Stopping Sophisticated Social Engineering Scams – Looking Beyond the Basic Signs

| | phishing defense, phishing threat intelligence, real time phishing threat intelligence, social engineering, social engineering attacks, social engineering scams
We recently came across an article at CSO online – 10 signs you’re being […] ...
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Is Business Email Compromise a “cyber attack?”

Is Business Email Compromise a “cyber attack?”

| | Awareness, online security, social engineering, worst practices
Just what constitutes a cyber attack? That’s the question facing a court in a case brought against insurer AIG. One of the firm’s clients was ...
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Hong Kong Protests, Instagram’s Anti-Phishing Tool, Smart Device Fail

| | Cybersecurity, D-Link, facial recognition, fail, hong kong, Instagram, Phishing, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, Protest, router, smart device, Smart Lock, social engineering, Weekly Blaze Podcast, wifi
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston In episode 90 for October 14th 2019: How protesters in Hong ...
Shared Security Podcast
Emotet

A Closer Look at the Emotet Banking Trojan

| | banking, Cybersecurity, Emotet, Malware, Phishing, Ryuk, TrickBot, trojan
Banking trojans can be one of the most financially damaging pieces of malware to infect computers. Banking trojans are typically seen as any piece of malicious software designed to gain access to ...
Security Boulevard
Threat Discovery: Attackers are Abusing Adobe Open Redirect Service to Serve Phishing

Threat Discovery: Attackers are Abusing Adobe Open Redirect Service to Serve Phishing

| | Phishing, phishing defense, phishing site, phishing threat, phishing URL, real time phishing threat intelligence, social engineering attacks, targeted phishing defense
As we’ve blogged about before, cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging legitimate commercial infrastructure sites to […] ...
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The Threat Detection Deficit – Microsoft Office 365 ATP Raises the Stakes

| | APT, Phishing, Phishing Attacks, phishing threat detection, phishing URL, phishing URL analysis, real time phishing threat intelligence, social engineering attacks, threat detection
A recent Dark Reading article, based on IRONSCALES’ research, found that Microsoft Office 365 […] ...
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How to Protect Your Employees When Threat Actors Leverage Legitimate Infrastructure

| | Phishing Attacks, phishing emails, real time phishing threat intelligence, social engineering attacks, targeted phishing defense, Threat Intelligence, URL filtering, URL filtering tools
In a recent blog we discussed Why Organizations Need to Take Phishing Threats Against […] ...
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Amazon Smart Glasses, Webkey Social Engineering, Erase Your Old Hard Drives!

| | Alexa, amazon, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Frames, Data Privacy, data storage, Hard Drives, Phishing, Podcast Episodes, social engineering, Webkey
In episode 92 of our monthly show Tom and Scott talk about Amazon’s new smart glasses that work with Alexa, what webkey’s are and how they could be used for social engineering, ...
Shared Security Podcast
Enigma 2019

USENIX Enigma 2019, Aaron Grattafiori’s ‘If Red Teaming Is Easy: You’re Doing It Wrong’

| | Conferences, education, Information Security, Red Team, USENIX Enigma 2019
Thanks to USENIX for publishing the USENIX Enigma 2019 outstanding conference videos on their YouTube Channel Permalink ...
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