Collaborate Disseminate
Social engineering is a sophisticated form of manipulation but, thanks to AI advancements, malicious groups have gained access to highly sophisticated tools, suggesting that we might be facing more elaborate social engineering attacks in the future. It… Continue reading Emerging threat: AI-powered social engineering
Okta says some of its US-based customers have been targeted in social engineering attacks whose goal was to disable MFA and obtain high privileges.
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A new study found that 4.31% of phishing attacks mimicked Microsoft, far ahead of the second most-spoofed brand PayPal. Continue reading Abnormal Security: Microsoft Tops List of Most-Impersonated Brands in Phishing Exploits
Phishing attacks using open redirect flaws are on the rise again, according to Kroll’s Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team, which means organizations should consider refreshing employees’ awareness and knowledge on how to spot them. Malicious UR… Continue reading Open redirect flaws increasingly exploited by phishers
To counteract new and emerging threat methods enhanced by artificial intelligence, specialized email security vendors are leveraging a synergy of AI and human insights to enhance email security, according to IRONSCALES and Osterman Research. Cybercrimi… Continue reading Organizations invest in AI tools to elevate email security
Reading how Spotify was normalizing unicode inconsistently, and now I’m questioning if I am overlooking any issue on accepting non-normalized usernames.
From what I can tell, lowercase was first used on unix because users had to log in fro… Continue reading Is there any benefit to normalize unicode/utf-8 names that I am overlooking?
ESET researchers have uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign aimed at collecting Zimbra account users’ credentials. Zimbra Collaboration is an open-core collaborative software platform, a popular alternative to enterprise email solutions. About t… Continue reading Zimbra users in Europe, Latin America face phishing threat
It’s no surprise that cyber criminals target high-profile individuals or those with access privilege. Malicious actors often use social engineering and whale phishing attacks against these people to breach systems. But households and family members of company executives may also be the target of cyberattacks. In some cases, such as sextortion attempts, criminals demand monetary […]
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I remember seeing a tweet about an infosec research paper a while ago on how one can put a lot of "fake vulnerabilities", which resemble real vulnerabilities but are actually formally proven to be secure, into their software syst… Continue reading A paper about putting formally proven secure "fake" vulnerabilities into your software to waste malicious actors’ time
An APT group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has hit employees of several dozen global organizations with phishing attacks via Microsoft Teams, says Microsoft. A social engineering attack to bypass MFA protection “To facilit… Continue reading Russian APT phished government employees via Microsoft Teams