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Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account information. Continue reading Two Charged in SIM Swapping, Vishing Scams
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The scammers who hijacked celebrity Twitter accounts to promote cryptocurrency in July did so by posing as a customer support team in a breach that caught Twitter’s security team flat-footed, a New York regulator said in a report Wednesday. The investigation from New York’s Department of Financial Services faulted Twitter for not heightening security measures for telework during the coronavirus pandemic, and called for regulation of social media companies to force better cybersecurity practices. “Social-media platforms have quickly become the leading source of news and information, yet no regulator has adequate oversight of their cybersecurity,” Linda Lacewell, Superintendent of FinancialServices, said in a statement. “The fact that Twitter was vulnerable to an unsophisticated attack shows that self-regulation is not the answer.” According to the report, attackers posed as Twitter’s IT department and phoned Twitter employees to discuss an apparent problem with their virtual provide networking (VPN) connection, a security technology that […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “vishing” attacks targeting companies. The advisory came less than 24 hours after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at a crime group offering a service that people can hire to steal VPN credentials and other sensitive data from employees working remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading FBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “vishing” attacks targeting companies. The advisory came less than 24 hours after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at a crime group offering a service that people can hire to steal VPN credentials and other sensitive data from employees working remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading FBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat
The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. Continue reading Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs
A pair of recent campaigns aim to lift credentials and other personal information under the guise of Amazon package-delivery notices. Continue reading Amazon-Themed Phishing Campaigns Swim Past Security Checks
Sometimes the old ways are the most effective. While black hat artificial intelligence and 5G threats grab the headlines, phishing remains the top challenge for global organizations. Like all good cybersecurity, there’s an art to responding effectivel… Continue reading Order Out of Chaos: Tackling Phishing Attacks