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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

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.

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APT trends report Q1 2024

SecureList

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. This characteristic led us to highly similar incidents in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

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