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Computer Sweden Social manipulation – 7 exempel på nya trick som används idag Gamla metoder i nya paketeringar tar plats på listan över de vanligaste attackerna inom social manipulation. Här ger säkerhetsexperter exempel på verkliga fall. Kopiera Social manipulation har glada tider. Pandemi-panik, osäkerhet kring människors välfärd och oro över hälsan har gjort det enklare för kriminella att utnyttja människors rädslor. Social manipulation är lika gammal som lögnen, det har bara fått ett nytt namn, och går helt enkelt ut på att digitalt attackera människor istället f...

minute read Share this article: The financially motivated cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak RAT is back with the Lizar malware, which can harvest all kinds of info from Windows machines. The notorious FIN7 cybercrime gang, a financially motivated group, is spreading a backdoor called Lizar under the guise of being a Windows pen-testing tool for ethical hackers. According to the BI.ZONE Cyber Threats Research Team, FIN7 is pretending to be a legitimate organization that hawks a security-analysis tool. They go to great lengths for verisimilitude, researchers said: “These groups...

Curaga / Cofotoisme / Getty Images It’s been a boom time for social engineering. Pandemic panic, desperation as income concerns grew, and worry over health and wellness made it easier for criminals to tap into fear. Social engineering, of course, means attacking the user rather than the computing system itself, trying to extract information or incite an action that will lead to compromise. It's as old as lying, with a new name for the computing age—and that's a perfect metaphor for how social engineering tactics evolve. "It's generally the same tricks wrapped up in new pack...

Google is seeing fresh threats from a North Korean government cyber group. This comes after Google’s Threat Analysis Group in January documented a hacking campaign targeting cyber security researchers. The hackers’ modus operandi is to build credibility by targeting legitimate researchers, according to Google. As described by Google in January, the actors set up a research blog and multiple Twitter profiles to interact with researchers and used the profiles to post links to their blog and post videos of "their claimed exploits." "Exploit" refers to code that takes advantage of a software ...

minute read Share this article: Cyberattackers have set up a website for a fake company called SecuriElite, as well as associated Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. The same North Korean threat actors that targeted security researchers in January appear to be readying a new campaign using a fake company (and associated social-media accounts) that aim to lure security professionals into another cyber-espionage trap. Google discovered the site as well as Twitter and LinkedIn profiles for a fake company called “SecuriElite” that purports to be an offensive security firm located in T...