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Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks
Mark Anderson | Security | August 22, 2025

Euclid Security Newsletter

August 22, 2025 

Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks

Attackers will continue to evolve, and the help desk will always be a target. But with the right mix of training, support, and trust, frontline agents can become your biggest security assets.

 

Security News

Top Cybersecurity Risk is Employee Distraction, Not Threat Sophistication

Findings from KnowBe4's survey of security professionals at Infosecurity Europe 2025 emphasise the importance of human risk management to improve cyber resilience.

Insider threats become more effective thanks to AI

Artificial intelligence is making insider threats more effective according to a new report which also shows that 53 percent of respondents have seen a measurable increase in insider incidents in the past year.

US charges Oregon man in vast botnet-for-hire operation

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged an Oregon man for allegedly running a global botnet-for-hire operation called Rapper Bot that used hacked IoT devices to conduct large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Cybercriminals Deploy CORNFLAKE.V3 Backdoor via ClickFix Tactic and Fake CAPTCHA Pages

Google-owned Mandiant described the activity, which it tracks as UNC5518, as part of an access-as-a-service scheme that employs fake CAPTCHA pages as lures to trick users into providing initial access to their systems, which is then monetized by other threat groups.

DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals.

HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach

Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases.

 

Important Updates & Patches

Apple Releases Security Updates for macOS, iOS and iPadOS

Apple has released security updates for macOS, iOS and iPadOS to patch zero-day vulnerability. Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.

 

Dan's Corner

You can search for files in Windows using Copilot now - here's how

The Copilot app lets you find photos, documents, and more using natural language prompts.

 

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