Social Engineering Category - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/category/blogs/social-engineering/ The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:05:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png Social Engineering Category - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/category/blogs/social-engineering/ 32 32 133346385 ‘China’ Azure Breach: MUCH Worse Than Microsoft Said https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/azure-breach-worse-richixbw/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:03:58 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1982521 Satya Nadella and President Xi Jinping

Storm-0558 Breaks: Satya and Pooh, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G.

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GitHub Developers Targeted by North Korea’s Lazarus Group https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/github-developers-targeted-by-north-koreas-lazarus-group/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:51:33 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1982351 GitHub satellite cyberattack Strontium cyberwarfare counter-drone The Legality of Waging War in Cyberspace

The Lazarus Group is behind a social engineering campaign that uses repository invitations and malicious npm packages to target developers on GitHub.

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R.I.P. Kevin Mitnick, 1963–2023 https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/rip-kevin-mitnick-richixbw/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:33:00 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1982320 Kevin Mitnick

Kevin is Free: Hackers’ hacker dies, aged 59.

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The Rise of QR Codes Spurs Rise in ‘Fresh Phish’ https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/the-rise-of-qr-codes-spurs-rise-in-fresh-phish/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:00:11 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1981769 QR codes ransomware, attacks, RaaS, SlashNext ransomware phishing attack

Miscreants have ramped up their use of QR codes to phish for credentials, according to INKY threat researchers.

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Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/biden-intellexa-cytrox-spyware-entity-list-richixbw/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:15:57 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1982013

European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S.

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CISA to Gov’t Agencies: Mitigate a Flaw in Windows and Office https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/cisa-to-govt-agencies-mitigate-a-flaw-in-windows-and-office/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:08:09 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1981878 Microsoft ransomware AWS Spring4Shell flaws vulnerabilities WhiteSource Python

The U.S. government is giving federal agencies three weeks to mitigate a zero-day Microsoft Windows and Office security flaw exploited by the Russian-linked RomCom threat group.

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A Look at the Email Threat Landscape in Q1 2023 https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/a-look-at-the-email-threat-landscape-in-q1-2023/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:00:42 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1981690 email cyber, resilience, Dell Lacework Adds Time Series Modeling to Cybersecurity Platform

VIPRE's Email Threat Trends Report for Q1 2023 analyzed 1.8 billion emails to provide a comprehensive understanding of contemporary email threats.

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The Two Faces of AI in Identity Management https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/the-two-faces-of-ai-in-identity-management/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:00:18 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1981655 GPT OpenSSF AI ML Darktrace Concentric supply chain Palo Alto AI partnership ai

The advent of AI made identity the most-targeted part of the attack surface. But without AI, identity is a sitting duck.

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OPSEC FAIL: US Military Email Going to Mali — via Typo https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/us-dod-email-mali-mil-typo-richixbw/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:41:25 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1981712

MX Mixup: Russian-allied government can intercept “highly sensitive information”—because there’s no “I” in .ML

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SlashNext Report Shows How Cybercriminals Use Generative AI https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/slashnext-report-shows-how-cybercriminals-use-generative-ai/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:10:35 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1981522 SlashNext BEC phishing

A SlashNext report detailed how cybercriminals use generative AI capabilities to launch phishing and BEC attacks in greater volume.

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