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Tag Archives: social engineering
Ring! Ring! Yes, This is the I.R.S! NOT!
Criminals have been calling taxpayers and insisting they must “immediately give up their personal information or make a payment,” Don’t fall for it! It’s a scam! The I.R.S. will never call as their method is to send old fashioned mail. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercrime, fraud, hackers, IRS, privacy, risk, scam, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Vawtrack Trojan Capabilities
Vawtrak is a banking Trojan that has been spreading in recent months. It infects victims via malware downloaders, exploit kits, or through drive-by downloads (e.g. spam email attachments or links). AVG has a white paper (pdf) full of details. Vawtrak … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, malware, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, trojan, Vawtrack
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Fake Error Message, SSL Cert Invalid
Bad guys are putting up fake error messages with hopes that victims will call them for help. Don’t fall for it!
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Tagged Fake SSL Warning, hackers, online trickery, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Billion Dollar Bank Hack
Multiple banks to be exact, over the last two years, by an unknown but very organized group. The bank’s internal computers, used by employees who process daily transfers and conduct bookkeeping, had been penetrated by malware, through social engineering/phishing attacks, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 billion dollars, ATM, Carbanak, kapersky, phishing, social engineering
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SpearPhishing in Omaha Tricked a Financial Controller to send $17.2 Million to China
The FBI was brought in to investigate The Scoular Company after the controller wired $17.2 million dollars to China through their accounting firm, KPMG. There were emails to the controller from an email address that resembled but was not the … Continue reading
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Tagged Information Technology Security Awareness, Omaha, phishing, Scoular, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing, two-factor
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Phishing Anthem
Since my original posting about the Anthem Health Insurance Breach… Investigators believe the cyber crooks compromised the logins from 5 different tech workers, possibly through a phishing scheme that could have tricked them into unknowingly revealing a password or downloading … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Anthem, breach, Identity Theft, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering
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LinkedIn Phishing
There has been a lot of phishing emails claiming to be from LinkedIn Support, designed to fool recipients into giving up their login credentials. The email uses a lowercase I instead of a capital i when spelling ‘Linkedln’ I promote … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 factor, 2015, linkedin, passwords, phishing, social engineering, two-factor
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Stuart Varney, Fox Host, Gets Demo-Hacked By John McAfee
This was in the news yesterday, it is proof that social engineering is the master key to unlock many locks. It is also proof that to keep your lock secured, security awareness and training is needed with the end goal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Fox News, Information Technology Security Awareness, John McAfee, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, sony, spoof, spoofing, Stuart Varney
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An Intro To Recon-ng Pushpin
Recon-ng is a full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python. Complete with independent modules, database interaction, built in convenience functions, interactive help, and command completion, Recon-ng provides a powerful environment in which open source web-based reconnaissance can be conducted quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, phishing, recon-ng, Reconnaissance, social engineering, video tutorial
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Harvesting Birthdays
When participating in social media, there are all sorts of fun things to be part of, like “Who would be in your Zombie Apocalypse team?”. Though it’s fun, it’s also easy to give up your personal information. Why the heck … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, birthdays, cybercrime, fullz, harvesting, Security Awareness, social engineering
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