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Ingenious Phishing Tactics in the Modern Scammer's Toolbox

SecureWorld News

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit. And for good reason. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S.

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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

About 60% of the information that a hacker needs to craft a really good spear phish is found on Instagram alone. For example, a hacker might find out personal histories from your social media, then send a phishing email that says things like: “I’m sorry about your brother’s passing. Don’t tag images. And so on it goes.

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An introduction to Kit Hunter, a phishing kit detector | Salted Hash Ep 40

Network World

Kit Hunter, a basic Python script written by host Steve Ragan, searches on common tag elements to find hidden phishing kits on a web server.

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Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT project shared a scam link, and followers lost thousands of dollars

The Verge

But just two days after the tokens were minted, supporters are being targeted by a phishing scam that drains cryptocurrency from their wallets, playing off a bad link shared by the project’s official Twitter account. I tagged them a few times in various tweets, as have a few other people, but no response,” he said.

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John Oliver on Surveillance Capitalism

Phil Windley

We could, for example, use data brokers to go phishing for members of congress, by creating a demographic group consisting of men, age 45 and up, in a 5-mile radius of the U.S. Tags: privacy surveillance+capitalism humor. The ads they ran were Marriage shouldn't be a prison , Can you vote twice? , and Ted Cruz erotic fan fiction.

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Passkeys: Using FIDO for Secure and Easy Authentication

Phil Windley

Summary: Passkeys, the popular name for FIDO, are not only easy, they offer better protection against phishing than other forms of multi-factor authentication. One of the weaknesses of how we use TLS today is that people don't usually check the lock icon in the browser and don't understand domain names enough to tell if they're being phished.