SiteLock
AUGUST 27, 2021
In this week’s post, we take a look at “in-the-wild” phishing attacks and talk about how to protect against a phishing attack and how to counter them. Phishing Attack Examples. Here are two examples of phishing attacks that were carried out. Data URI and phishing page. We don’t want that. Gee, thanks, Kyle.
Spinone
MARCH 19, 2020
Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.
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Malwarebytes
AUGUST 29, 2023
The Ohio History Connection (OHC) has posted a breach notification in which it discloses that a ransomware attack successfully encrypted internal data servers. During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023).
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.
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)
SecureList
OCTOBER 7, 2022
It was active in the wild for at least for eight years—from 2009 to 2017—and targeted at least 20 civilian and military entities in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, Russia, Belarus, and the United Arab Emirates. The malware spreads through spear-phishing emails with a malicious Microsoft Office document as attachment.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 15, 2018
The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. The body of the messages includes a password to use to see the password-protected document.
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