Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The attack chain starts with COVID19-themed spear-phishing messages that contain either a malicious Word attachment or a link to one hosted on company servers. . Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption.

Malware 94

Malware Cryptocurrency Password Management Encryption 94

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. since Q3 of 2007.

Social Engineering 120

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 120

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

BMP) image files in a recent spear-phishing campaign targeting entities in South Korea. . Experts from Malwarebytes have uncovered a spear-phishing attack conducted by a North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group that obfuscated a malicious code within a bitmap (.BMP) North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is abusing bitmap (.BMP)

Phishing 69

Phishing Hacking Cryptocurrency Malware 69

eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Since blockchain’s arrival, cryptocurrency has framed the technology as permissionless, or a public blockchain. Since the 1970s, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has offered encryption , authentication, bootstrapping, and digital signatures to secure digital communications. The Intersection of Cryptocurrency and Cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity 135

Cybersecurity Cryptocurrency Technology Energy and Utilities 135

SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

The payloads were distinctively served, veiled as font files, in compressed and encrypted fashion. Careto is a highly sophisticated threat actor that has been seen targeting various high-profile organizations since at least 2007. Based on our telemetry, we pinpointed two victims within the South Korean cryptocurrency sector.

Malware 130

Malware Government DDOS Cryptocurrency 130