SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Another noticeable phishing trend targeting the corporate sector was to exploit popular cloud services as bait.

Phishing 68

Phishing Scams Accountability Banking 68

SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. Other malware.

Phishing 110

Phishing Spyware Firmware Malware 110

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing. Examples of Phishing Malware Attacks.

Malware 104

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 104

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Since at least 2017, the prolific gang compromised at least 500,000 government and private sector companies in more than 150 countries. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of email phishing attack that relies on social engineering. 2 Sample of the TMT’s phishing email. 1 Courtesy of INTERPOL.

Cybercrime 125

Cybercrime Phishing Social Engineering Spyware 125

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews Usernames Names Government ID numbers (CURP) Phone numbers Email addresses Home addresses Dates of Birth Gender KYC status IP addresses used to register for an account IP addresses used to log in Deposit amounts Withdrawal amounts Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents. Amount of leaked data.

Passwords 96

Passwords Identity Theft Social Engineering Spyware 96

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The emails provide updates on the Coronavirus outbreak, it includes stats on the epidemic and contains an email of corona-virus@caramail.com that is likely used for phishing purposes. See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information.

Malware 117

Malware Scams Social Engineering Phishing 117

SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

The threat landscape is constantly updated through new malware and spyware, advanced phishing methods, and new social engineering techniques. Last year, the cybersecurity of corporations and government agencies was more significant than ever before, and will become even more so in 2023.

Media 108

Media Social Engineering Ransomware Hacking 108

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The rise of destructive attacks In December of last year, shortly after we released our predictions for 2023, Russian government agencies were reported to have been targeted by a data wiper called CryWiper. This politician became the target of a previously undiscovered “zero-day” attack aimed at infecting his phone with spyware.

Hacking 109

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 109

SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Following this, we released the first of a series of additional reports describing the final payload in the infection chain: a highly sophisticated spyware implant that we dubbed “TriangleDB” Operating in memory, this implant periodically communicates with the C2 (command and control) infrastructure to receive commands.

Malware 88

Malware Government Phishing Social Engineering 88

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The victims are targeted with spear-phishing emails that trick them into mounting a malicious ISO file and double-clicking an LNK, which starts the infection chain. In most cases, the targets appear to be diplomatic and government organizations in Europe. The group’s TTPs remained consistent with those we described before.

Malware 142

Malware Ransomware Spyware Encryption 142

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

First, the threat actor sends a spear-phishing email to the potential victim with a lure to download additional documents. The attacks, which took place earlier this year, affected industrial plants, design bureaus and research institutes, government agencies, ministries and departments. The attacks occur in several stages.

Malware 105

Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 105