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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

February 26, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, escrow.com, godaddy breach december 2022, godaddy breach march 2020, godaddy breach november 2020, godaddy breach november 2021, Ne'er-Do-Well News, vishing, voice phishing, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:15 +0000

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Voice-scamming site “iSpoof” seized, 100s arrested in massive crackdown

November 25, 2022 0 Comments europol, FBI, ispoof, Law & order, metropolitan police, phishing, Privacy, vishing, vishing-as-a-service

Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:17:25 +0000

Those numbers or names that pop up when a call comes up? They’re OK as a hint of who’s calling, but THEY PROVE NOTHING

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S3 Ep87: Follina, AirTags, ID theft and the Law of Big Numbers [Podcast]

June 16, 2022 0 Comments Apple, cve-2022-30190, Exploit, follina, Microsoft, phishing, Podcast, SMS, vishing, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:52:55 +0000

Lastest epsiode – listen now!

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Interpol’s First Light operation smashes crime on a global scale

June 16, 2022 0 Comments fake jobs, first light, forced labor, fraud, interpol, law enforcement, money mule, muling, police, scams, social media, Telecommunications, trafficking, vishing

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 13:24:46 +0000

Interpol’s annual First Light project has gone global for the second time. We take a look at the results, findings, and trends.

The post Interpol’s First Light operation smashes crime on a global scale appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

April 6, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, advanced persistent teenagers, amit yoran, APT, cisa, FBI, lapsus, Microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NVIDIA, okta, Samsung, tenable, The Coming Storm, twitter hack, vishing, voice phishing, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:55:38 +0000

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual “smash and grab” attacks we’ve seen recently from LAPSUS$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world’s biggest corporations on edge.

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Alexa and Google Home phishing apps demonstrated by researchers

October 23, 2019 0 Comments actions, Alexa, amazon, amazon echo, eavesdropping, Google, Google Home, karsten nohl, passwords, phishing, Privacy, security research labs, skills, smart spies, spying apps, srl, vishing

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:43:57 +0000

The researchers’ “Smart Spies” apps showed how Amazon Alexa and Google Home users could be exposed to vishing and eavesdropping.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2-76soYbixo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day

September 17, 2019 0 Comments caller id, data loss, legislation, Mobile, neighbor spoofing, nuisance calls, phishing, robocalling, robocalls, security threats, shaken/stir, snowshoe spamming, spoofing, telemarketing, vishing, voip

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:24:15 +0000

According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UDmV3nOCTag” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243,000 transfer

September 5, 2019 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, audio, audio deepfake, CEO, deepfake, fraud, Machine Learning, Scam, security threats, vishing, voice, voice phishing

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:38:02 +0000

The voice had the hint of a German accent and the same “melody” that an employee recognized in his boss’s voice.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_coDs7IxGNM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>