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An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEV#POPPER, linking it to North Korean threat actors. “During these fraudulent interviews, the developers are often asked […]
Threat actors operating with interests aligned to Belarus and Russia have been linked to a new cyber espionage campaign that likely exploited cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Roundcube webmail servers to target over 80 organizations. These entities are primarily located in Georgia, Poland, and Ukraine, according to Recorded Future, which attributed the intrusion set to […]
Android smartphone users in India are the target of a new malware campaign that employs social engineering lures to install fraudulent apps that are capable of harvesting sensitive data. “Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are sending messages designed to lure users into installing a malicious app on their mobile device by […]
Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees. The company said its “cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or compromise of customer information.” The incident, which took place on February 5, 2023, resulted in the exposure of […]
Uber, in an update, said there is “no evidence” that users’ private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems that was discovered late Thursday. “We have no evidence that the incident involved access to sensitive user data (like trip history),” the company said. “All of our services including Uber, Uber Eats, […]
A threat actor with affiliations to the cyber warfare division of Hamas has been linked to an “elaborate campaign” targeting high-profile Israeli individuals employed in sensitive defense, law enforcement, and emergency services organizations. “The campaign operators use sophisticated social engineering techniques, ultimately aimed to deliver previously undocumented backdoors for Windows and Android devices,” cybersecurity company […]
Social engineering attacks are not becoming common against corporate organizations and SMBs but are also getting increasingly advanced. With hackers adopting smarter methods for trapping employees and individuals into giving up their valuable data, enterprises must use considerable efforts to stay two steps forward of the cybercriminals. These attacks usually involve some psychological manipulation to […]
Email-based cyber attacks have become common these days. I am not the only one receiving emails saying that the file in the attachment contains data that I might be interested in knowing. Social engineering has become one of the major tools attackers use to lure targets into opening links or attachments. A report by Proofpoint […]
We all know how AI has advanced over the years and is continuing to do so for a better future. While AI helps us in numerous ways, it also contributes to malicious activities as suggested by a new cybercriminal case. AI used in money fraud As hinted by a report by the Wall Street Journal, […]
GHIDRA is NSA’s reverse engineering tool released earlier this month. Earlier this month, Hackread.com posted about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) publicly releasing its decompiler and disassembler tool GHIDRA and make it open-source software. Now, it has been revealed that the generic reverse engineering tool has a flaw that can be exploited by cybercriminals for carrying […]
Trape Intro:- Trape is a OSINT (Open Source Intelligence Tool) is a tracking tool in which you can execute social engineering attack in a real time, ethical hacking specialists clarifies. It was created with the goal of to tell the world that how an attacker can obtain confidential info such as victim location beyond their IP […]
Cybercriminals now using new Fallout Exploit Kit for launching GandCrab Ransomware via Malvertising Campaign that targets many victims around the world. This malvertising campaign mainly affected users in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southern Europe, Asia Pacific region and other countries. Along with this Exploit kit, there are additional domains, regions, and payloads associated with the campaign […]
You might have heard the word Social Engineering. But, what exactly is Social Engineering? What are the types of Social Engineering techniques? It can be assumed as a set of methods primarily intended by the people who want to hack other people or make them do some particular task to benefit the attacker. However, to […]
Your Netflix account will be suspended if you don’t update your billing information, says a personalized email from Netflix, which is a phishing attack. However, this is different from the one that targeted Netflix users earlier this year. The wholesale phishing spree was discovered by an Australian security firm called Mailguard last week, Deadline reports. […]
What do you mean by social engineering? Social engineering is the art of manipulating users of a computing system into revealing confidential information. The term can also include activities such as exploiting human kindness, greed and curiosity. To gain access to restricted access buildings or getting the users to installing backdoor software. HERE, […]
“In the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.” A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional “con” in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme. […]
Phishing attacks have become a common norm now but lately, a different kind of social engineering hack has been identified, which uses a mobile phone to trap you. Now this can be termed as a seriously scary trick for hacking email accounts. This Symantec video explains that a new trick has been developed by attackers […]