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Crooks use The Pirate Bay to spread PirateMatryoshka malware via reputed seeders

Security Affairs

“We noticed that the tracker contained malicious torrents created from dozens of different accounts, including ones registered on TBP for quite some time.” ” Once the malware was downloaded, it installs adware programs and other tools on the users’ computers making it virtually useless. PirateMatryoshka.”

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Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading

Security Affairs

Although the campaign has not reached the magnitude of the Zacinlo adware campaign, it is already infecting users worldwide.” It can also steal cookies and login info from victims’ accounts on Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and Airbnb. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

Security Affairs

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. Once again thank you! Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2022

SecureList

First, the threat actor sends a spear-phishing email to the potential victim with a lure to download additional documents. The attackers gained access to the enterprise network using carefully crafted phishing emails. Prilex, active since 2014, is a well-known threat actor targeting ATMs and Point of Sale (PoS) terminals.

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Cyber Threats to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Digital Shadows

The level of sophistication used by attackers to mimic the original domains varied greatly, ranging from low quality, obvious phishing pages to more refined efforts mimicking animations and logos. pro is flagged as a phishing domain by multiple security providers. Among these pages, a notable example was the qatar2022[.]pro

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IT threat evolution Q2 2021

SecureList

All of these documents were blank, suggesting the existence of precursor documents – possibly delivered by means of spear-phishing or a previous infection – that trigger the download of the RTF files. It is complex multi-stage banking malware, which was initially discovered by Doctor Web in 2014.