Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

Cyber researchers warn of a modified Zoom app that was used by threat actors in a phishing campaign to deliver the IcedID Malware. Cyble researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign targeting users of the popular video conferencing and online meeting platform Zoom to deliver the IcedID malware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this research, we analyze various types of threats, such as financial malware and phishing pages mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms, banking and payment systems, and discuss recent trends. Over the first ten months of 2022, Kaspersky prevented 38,596,555 financial phishing attacks. Methodology.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2021

Today, we are reviewing the GreatHorn Cloud Email Security Platform, an email security solution to protect organizations against phishing attacks and advanced communication threats. Phishing attacks have been growing dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting massive increase in employees working from home.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Cybercriminals are targeting Coinbase platform users with phishing campaings in an attempt to steal their account credentials and drain their cryptocurrency wallets, Bitdefender Antispam Lab has learned. According to our latest telemetry, the phishing campaign was noticed since mid-February, targeting over 25,000 users.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2023

The Mandiant Intelligence team has identified this actor, known as UNC3844, evading security software detections on Azure cloud platforms. Phishing attacks via SMS operations have been their preferred method of targeting victims.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

Discord, the popular VoIP and instant messaging social platform, disclosed a data breach and is notifying the impacted users. In response to the incident, the company immediately deactivated the compromised account and analyzed the impacted machine to determine if it was infected with malware. ” concludes the notice. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The 2024 European Union elections face threats from content generated through these platforms. Leveraging an artificial intelligence-driven system allows for the generation of this content in real-time based on actual events and the level of citizen engagement in public discussions on major social media platforms.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. 1 – Example of Phishing Page Delivered by Azure Front Door (AFD).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

The malware is being dubbed as “Go#Webbfuscator” and has the potential to be spread through phishing emails loaded with a malicious deep image file in a Word document, apart from the James Webb Space Telescope generated images.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Hacker Combat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A technical report by Volexity revealing a continuing campaign uncovered an active campaign taking advantage of a zero-day susceptibility in the Zimbra webmail platform since December 2021. . Zimbra is an open-source email platform that serves hundreds of millions of mailboxes across 140 countries. The Genesis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Israel’s National Cybersecurity Directorate is readying itself to set up a helpline that will help educate, analyzing, mitigating the cyber threats of all range. Therefore, companies needing or willing to seek help can pretty soon contact the centralized platform to keep their businesses secure from ransomware attacks.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For years, it has been aware of spam, fake job offers, phishing, fraudulent investments, and (at times) malware, and has been trying to combat those issues. Tech that analyzes profile pictures. The platform now warns potential targets when the person they're talking to suggests they move elsewhere. Source: LinkedIn).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Most of the attacks observed by the researchers that targeted crypto communities are based on the Discord platform, threat actors shared download links via Discord channels . “In the campaign that we observed, a threat actor took advantage of these features in order to phish victims.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

28, 2023 – AppDirect , the world’s leading B2B subscription commerce platform, today released key findings from its IT Business Leaders 2024 Outlook Report. In fact, all of their other concerns—malware, stolen data, phishing, ransomware and misconfiguration of cloud services—include an element of human error and/or malice.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Users who sign up on the platform mainly provide their personal information directly during the setup process. Additional technical information about the devices you use in your online gaming sessions may also be collected and analyzed. Why changing only the breached credentials is not enough.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 17, 2021

When it comes to safeguarding email against today’s advanced threats like phishing and malware information is power. Vendors will re-write embedded URLs, so when a user clicks on the URL, it is scanned to analyze the potential threat. Remote work has magnified the threats users and businesses face online daily.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2020

A sample analyzed by Bleeping computer composed of 290 accounts (some offered for free) included credentials of accounts for many colleges, including the University of Vermont, University of Colorado, Dartmouth, Lafayette, University of Florida. ” states a post published by BleepingComputer that first reported the discovery.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Crooks increasingly often use legitimate services such as Google Forms and Telegram to obtain user data stolen on phishing websites. Such platforms are distributed under the cybercrime-as-a-service model, which subsequently leads to more groups conducting attacks. Phishing kits are usually sold on underground forums on the darknet.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

The tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of this threat actor have a high overlap with a previous voicemail campaign that ThreatLabz analyzed in July 2020. Voicemail-themed phishing campaigns continue to be a successful social engineering theme used by this threat actor to lure victims in opening a malicious attachment.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

Deep learning technology analyzes tons of existing images or audio of a target and then uses that knowledge to create new, artificial content. AI-Powered Phishing Scammers have begun leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to make phishing scams more convincing and impactful.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Belgian intelligence service VSSE accused Alibaba of ‘possible espionage’ at European hub in Liege A WhatsApp zero-day exploit can cost several million dollars CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity and Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog NATO is investigating a new cyber attack claimed by the SiegedSec group Global CRM Provider Exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Palo Alto Network Unit 42 discovered a previously unreported phishing campaign that distributed a Python variant of the NodeStealer. Since December 2022, the experts observed threat actors targeting Facebook business accounts with a phishing lure offering tools such as spreadsheet templates for business. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2023

Related: Training employees to mitigate phishing It pressures working analysts to perform 24 hours’ worth of work in an 8-hour day. Security Orchestration, Automation and Response: Cross-platform tech stacks that can do tasks like remediation and submitting security alerts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Researchers at Cofense uncovered an advanced phishing campaign delivering Quasar RAT via fake resumes. Experts at security firm Cofense observed an advanced phishing campaign delivering Quasar RAT via fake resumes. The fake resumes distributed in this phishing campaign detected are password-protected Microsoft Word documents.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

From analyzing attack methods and suggesting defense tactics to doing vulnerability assessments, it provides users with the knowledge to improve their security posture. With swift response capabilities, GPT-3 and GPT-4 capacity, and upcoming mobile access, HackerGPT provides accessibility on most platforms, plus operational efficiency.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2023

Disclosing personal data on platforms providing digital services is always risky. Trustanduse.com is a platform for consumers to rate products, services, professionals, and stores, as well as get offers and discounts. We reached out to trustanduse.com, and the company fixed the issue. Sensitive information exposed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

Putting yourself out there on social media platforms opens up your personal information to cyber threats. People use online services all the time, and not everyone is up to date with the latest ways to catch phishing scams or create safe passwords. Learn how to educate your social media following on everyday cybersecurity risks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

LODEINFO has been observed engaged in a spear- phishing campaign since December 2019 by JPCERT/CC. They observed another spear-phishing campaign in March 2022. You need humans to operate these tools and analyze threats and IoCs (Indicators of Compromise). The sophisticated malware was hidden in malicious Word file attachments.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2023

Unlike traditional deep learning systems – which generally analyze words or tokens in small bunches – this technology could find the relationships among enormous sets of unstructured data like Wikipedia or Reddit. Another benefit of an LLM is that it can analyze and process huge amounts of information.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 11, 2023

Like all social media platforms, Facebook constantly has to deal with fake accounts, scams and malware. Meta has tracked and analyzed several threat actors such as DuckTail that have been active for a number of years with a particular interest for Facebook advertising accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

Cybersecurity company Darktrace integrates its threat analysis intelligence with machine learning tools offering enhanced security features across varied cloud platforms and enterprise environments, thus easing work pressure for the security teams. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. E-commerce-related phishing continued to exceed banking-related phishing, as it did in 2020, making up 17.6%

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Educate and train employees to recognize phishing attempts, use strong passwords, and follow secure data handling practices. As a result, individuals become adept at identifying potential threats, reducing the risk of falling victim to phishing attacks or inadvertently mishandling sensitive information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 20, 2021

Yes, what you’ve read is right as it was reported by cyber threat intelligence firm Check Point after it analyzed the facts in a recently concluded study meant to learn how mobile apps were exposing the personal data of their users respectively.

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