Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what’s a good security tool.
Tag Archives: Social Engineering
Fin7 sysadmin pleads guilty to running IT for billion-dollar crime syndicate
Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.
Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud
Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.
Social engineering forum hacked, user data dumped on rival site
Social Engineered, dedicated to the “Art of Human Hacking,” was gutted, with 55,121 users’ details leaked on the same day as the hack.
Most hackers for hire are scammers, research shows
Google & UC San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets.
Two people indicted for massive Anthem health data breach
They’re part of a gang that spearphished millions of records out of the health insurer and other businesses, the DOJ says.
Attackers used a LinkedIn job ad and Skype call to breach bank’s defences
A Chilean Senator has taken to Twitter with alarming news – the company running the country’s ATM network suffered a serious cyberattack.
Chinese hotel chain’s customer data on Dark Web – 500M records for $50K
You often have to share a lot of personal information when you check into a hotel – as cybercrooks know only too well.
‘Teen stoner’ who says he hacked CIA head’s email quite pleased with himself
“Since only 13 i am pretty hype about it,” he said, taking a break from pro-Palestinian posts sprinkled with CIA-related screenshots. 
Anthem healthcare breach is smaller – and bigger – than first thought
There’s good and bad news about Anthem’s recent data breach. The bad news includes the risk to between 8.8M and 18M non-customers who were in Anthem’s database anyway…