Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

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). Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

Founded in 2009, the company provides luggage and passenger transportation services on many popular hiking routes, including the famous Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail. Leaked data might also lead to phishing scams. The services are well-reviewed by their clients, with an overall four-star rating on TripAdvisor.

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Passwords Identity Theft Scams Social Engineering 96

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.”

Identity Theft 78

Identity Theft Scams Advertising Risk 78

The Security Ledger

JANUARY 23, 2024

And yet, the awareness of cyber security risks – from phishing and social engineering attacks to software supply chain compromises – remains low. Software is now central to the operation of our economy – as digital transformation washes over every industry. Nobody knows that better than our guest this week.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware.

Banking 94

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 94

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

.” FACCT says on its website that it is a “Russian developer of technologies for combating cybercrime,” and that it works with clients to fight targeted attacks, data leaks, fraud, phishing and brand abuse. A 2009 census found that Russians make up about 24 percent of the population of Kazakhstan.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 21, 2021

By the way, this is why the most common starter SOAR playbook is about phishing, a major time-suck of many aspiring SOCs (I’ve heard one spent 40% of analyst time on phishing response and that was after the email security gateway did its work). So people often point out that the value of automation is about saving time. Guess what?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Qbot , aka Qakbot , is a data stealer worm with backdoor capabilities that was first detected by Symantec back in 2009. ” The malware is distributed through phishing attacks that attempt to trick victims into visiting websites that use exploits to inject Qbot via a dropper. The campaign targets 36 different U.S.

Banking 104

Banking Malware Advertising Financial Services 104

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)

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Phishing Hacking Cryptocurrency Encryption 77

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

Malware 87

Malware Hacking Phishing Ransomware 87

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

Cryptocurrency 130

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to Forrester , the term Zero Trust was born in 2009. Traditionally CISOs have talked about the importance of improving security awareness which has resulted in the growth of those test phishing emails we all know and love so much. How Zero Trust will progress. From Security Awareness to Culture Change.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

Watch out for incoming spam emails, unsolicited texts, and phishing messages. An example of leaked passwords included in the RockYou2021 compilation: With a collection that exceeds its 12-year-old namesake by more than 262 times, this leak is comparable to the Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB) , the largest data breach compilation ever.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It's been active since 2009 and is responsible for many high profile attacks. In January of 2022 the Malwarebytes Intelligence Team uncovered a campaign where Lazarus conducted spear phishing attacks weaponized with malicious documents that used a familiar job opportunities theme.

Cryptocurrency 75

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. With the active development of telehealth, medicine will only become a more commonly used bait, just as the digitalization of banks has turned banking phishing into one of the most popularly used types of phishing. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Back in the days of Xbox360, especially around 2009, custom made booter services became very popular with gamers. ” As it turns out, pushing that button to win is a lot less intensive than figuring out how to make people run your executable or set up a working phishing page. Why are booters so popular?

DDOS 85

DDOS Marketing Phishing Risk 85

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The DarkUniverse has been active at least from 2009 until 2017. The DarkUniverse APT carried spear-phishing attacks using weaponized Microsoft Office document, each email was prepared separately for each victim. .” The dump also included an intriguing Pyton script named sigs.py

Malware 54

Malware Advertising Accountability Phishing 54

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.

Media 86

Media Advertising Malware Phishing 86

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 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.

Advertising 91

Advertising Healthcare Manufacturing Malware 91

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For Charlet, the 2009 Operation Aurora cyberattack on Google was a watershed moment for the company. For example, how do we discern when an email may be phishing; how do you know what to do and what not to do?". Recognizing and reporting phishing. Criminals leverage all of it, exposing people to scams," he said.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

Retail 99

Retail Advertising Malware Cryptocurrency 99

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. In August, F-Secure Labs experts observed a spear-phishing campaign targeting an organization in the cryptocurrency industry.

Malware 104

Malware Software Cryptocurrency Financial Services 104

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. . The experts discovered the custom backdoor while investigating an incident, it was used by attackers for lateral movements and data exfiltration.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The modern era of mass data breaches perhaps began in 2009, with the hack of 32 million account credentials held by software developer RockYou, in which a SQL injection attack revealed that passwords were simple held in cleartext in a database table. Taking a password dump from a server isn’t, of course, the only route to compromise.

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Passwords Internet Internet Data breaches 99

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

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.

Advertising 87

Advertising Malware Government Hacking 87

Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries. Scams, Phishing and Malware. Leaked contact information may be used to launch scam, phishing and malware attacks against FBS users. The breach is a danger to both FBS and its customers.

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Passwords Accountability Media Identity Theft 125

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

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. ” continues the report.

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Identity Theft Hacking System Administration Advertising 88

Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2022

Phishing attacks, vulnerability exploits, DDoS attacks, and much more threaten your company’s Macs at any time — and if any of them are successful, it could cost your business millions in lost productivity and information theft. And it’s not just malware you have to worry about with your Mac endpoints.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Experts believe APT threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks against the bank, malicious messages used Windows executable.

Banking 94

Banking Retail Advertising Malware 94

Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

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.

Cyber Attacks 101

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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.

Malware 141

Malware Computers and Electronics Telecommunications Encryption 141

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 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.

Computers and Electronics 83

Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Technology Manufacturing 83

Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

The Problem with Website Passwords (from Blog Post from 2009). Phishing Scammers imitate Windows logo with HTML Tables to Slip through Email Gateways. An example they give is " RedPantsTree ", which is unlikely to be used anywhere else online. Passwords are and have always been an Achilles Heel in Cybersecurity. Stay safe and secure.

Ransomware 124

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

This increases the likelihood of making mistakes, such as clicking on phishing links, sharing data in insecure ways, using weak passwords, or not spotting cyber threat patterns. Organisations When employees suffer from burnout, their brains become tired and less able to cope with the demands of their job. Naturally, attackers take advantage.

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Cybersecurity Risk InfoSec CISO 130

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even small details like using financial hooks as part of a phishing awareness campaign can come across as poor taste at a time of rising consumer prices, she said. It’s a message that organisers Irisscert have promoted since the very first IRISSCON back in 2009. Avast’s CISO – Jaya Baloo.

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Social Engineering Insurance CISO Ransomware 59