Social Engineering – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:21:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://www.hackread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-Favicon-for-HACKREAD-32x32.png Social Engineering – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com 32 32 Ukrainian Hackers Breach Email of APT28 Leader, Who’s Wanted by FBI https://www.hackread.com/ukraine-hackers-breach-apt28-fbi-wanted-hacker/ https://www.hackread.com/ukraine-hackers-breach-apt28-fbi-wanted-hacker/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:26:50 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=110363 By Waqas

APT28, or Fancy Bear, is a Russian government-backed nefarious hacking group known for using spear-phishing campaigns against its targets.

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Ukrainian Hacktivists Trick Russian Military Wives for Personal Info https://www.hackread.com/ukrainian-hacktivists-russian-military-wives/ Sat, 01 Apr 2023 22:51:25 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=109866 By Waqas

Ukrainian hacktivists extracted personal information, including sensitive military data and even nude photos of one of the targeted military wives.

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Coinbase Employees Targeted by SMS Phishing Attack https://www.hackread.com/coinbase-employees-sms-phishing-attack/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:06:25 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=107944 By Waqas

The SMS phishing attack (smishing) was followed by a phone call from a scammer to one of the employees who fell for the scam.

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Hackers Compromise Employee Accounts to Access Twilio Internal Systems https://www.hackread.com/hackers-employee-accounts-twilio-internal-system/ Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:43:15 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=98891 By Waqas

Twilio says the threat actors behind the attack had “sophisticated abilities to match employee names from sources with…

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APT Groups Trapping Targets with Clever Twitter Scheme https://www.hackread.com/apt-groups-trapping-targets-clever-twitter-scheme/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:16:47 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=98121 By Deeba Ahmed

According to researchers, state-backed APT groups are trapping their targets by employing social engineering tactics including posing as…

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Download Kali Linux 2022.1 with new tools and wider SSH compatibility https://www.hackread.com/download-kali-linux-2022-1-tools-ssh-compatible/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:11:27 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=92219 By Waqas

You can download Kali Linux 2022.1 now or update your existing Kali Linux installation to the new one.…

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Kali Linux 2021.4 released with Samba compatibility, Apple M1 support, 9 new tools https://www.hackread.com/kali-linux-2021-4-samba-compatibility-9-new-tools/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:40:43 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=89702 By Waqas

The release of the new Kali Linux 2021.4 has been grabbing headlines for the array of new capabilities and tools embedded with it.

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Robinhood Data Breach – Hackers access millions of users’ data https://www.hackread.com/robinhood-data-breach-7-million-users/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:22:41 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=88848 By Waqas

Robinhood data breach involved social engineering attack in which hackers somehow managed to gain access to the company's support system.

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Flaw in NSA’s GHIDRA leads to remote code execution attacks https://www.hackread.com/nsa-ghidra-flaw-remote-code-execution-attacks/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:16:31 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=69873 By Waqas

GHIDRA is NSA’s reverse engineering tool released earlier this month. Earlier this month, Hackread.com posted about the National Security…

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Man jailed for hacking County jail’s records to get friend released early https://www.hackread.com/man-jailed-for-hacking-county-jails-records-for-friend/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:30:15 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=63756 By Waqas

Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for Hacking County Jail’s Records to Get Friend Released Early because…

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