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Phishers turning hard-working: CERT-GIB records upsurge of phishing resource blockages as duration of attacks grows

Security Affairs

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, observed the growth of the lifespan of phishing attacks in the second half of 2019. Figure 1 The distribution of web-phishing among target categories . CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool. Target reshuffle.

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APT trends report Q3 2024

SecureList

Based on limited telemetry, we believe with medium to low confidence that some of the initial infections were spear-phishing emails. In this most recent campaign, the actor uses spear-phishing emails, embedding a JavaScript loader as the initial infection vector.

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The Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency

Security Affairs

Many experts linked the Regin malware to the Five Eyes alliance , they found alleged references to the super spyware in a number of presentations leaked by Edward Snowden and according to malware researchers, it has been used in targeted attacks against government agencies in the EU and the Belgian telecoms company Belgacom.

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Another NFT explainer, with a bonus look at the data security implications

Webroot

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. It seems phishing for users’ passwords to the sites used to buy and sell NFTs is the main method of compromise. Once a key is stolen—either by phishing, a keylogger or some other means—there’s very little in terms of a realistic prospect of getting it back.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. . 2008 — Heartland Payment Systems — 134 million credit cards are exposed through SQL injection to install spyware on Heartland’s data systems.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 178 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy. · What Happens to Whistleblowers After They Blow the Whistle?

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NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper

SecureList

NullMixer is a dropper that includes more than just specific malware families; it drops a wide variety of malicious binaries to infect the machine with, such as backdoors, bankers, downloaders, spyware and many others. The malware is known to be sold on online forums, and distributed via phishing emails. NullMixer execution chain.

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