Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2019

Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). ” reads the study published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In March, Google shared data on alerts related to state-sponsored attacks, the tech giant revealed that it issued almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks to its users during 2019. The security key used during the registration process will be required anytime the users will sign into their accounts on new devices.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

Word is spreading of a compromise claimed to have accessed around 69 million user accounts. Back in 2014, “tens of millions” of Neopets accounts were said to have been traded on underground forums. In 2020, there were claims of ways to potentially gain access to user accounts. Neopets also addressed this.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2019

Experts at Proofpoint discovered that free code repositories on GitHub have been abused since at least 2017 to host phishing websites. Researchers at Proofpoint reported that crooks are abusing free code repositories on GitHub to host phishing websites and bypass security defenses. ” reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Google says that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week. Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Crooks leverage Google Translate service as camouflage on mobile browsers in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Google account and Facebook credentials. These phishing emails pose as alerts sent by Google that inform users that their accounts were accessed from a new Windows device. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The three most common forms of attack on web apps were phishing (to lure users into revealing their passwords), brute force attacks to crack passwords, and SQL injections. accounting for the biggest number of incidents by far – 54% of incidents compared to the next highest which was South Korea at just 6%.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Security experts at Myki have recently discovered a new phishing campaign that could deceive even most tech-savvy users. Crooks are distributing links to blogs and services that display users “login using Facebook account” to read an exclusive article or purchase a discounted product. SecurityAffairs – phishing, Facebook).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Secure web- phishing. In the light of global pandemic and the businesses’ dive into online world, the share of this phishing category increased to remarkable 46 percent.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

Last week, hackers published a list of Discord credentials (email addresses/passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform. Last week, a group of hackers published a list of Discord login credentials (email addresses and passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Lynx0x00’s Medium and Twitter accounts have mysteriously vanished but, fortunately, the Internet never truly forgets. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

Google this week announced that it is going to block login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) phishing attacks. “However, one form of phishing, known as “ man in the middle ” (MITM), is hard to detect when an embedded browser framework (e.g., Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Carbanak malware has been active since at least 2014 and has been used by ransomware gangs to infiltrate financial systems. The threat actors used sophisticated phishing techniques against bank employees. Imposters in November included the CRM platform HubSpot, data management software Veeam, and account tool Xero.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The hackers carried out spear-phishing attacks against the Swiss universities in an attempt of tricking its employees into providing their access data. The SonntagsZeitung also added that hackers attempted to breach the University of Zurich, but the employees at the university recognised the phishing attempts and neutralized them.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Over 90 percent of the users identified by Google were targeted via “credential phishing emails” that attempt to trick victims into providing their password or other account credentials to hijack their Google account. It doesn’t mean that hackers successfully compromised their Google accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

The archive included credentials for Zoom accounts belonging to organizations in various industries, including banking, consultancy, healthcare software companies. While some of the accounts “only” included an email and password, others included meeting IDs, names and host keys.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks, the recent mass scanning activity represents a change in the modus operandi of the group. Trend Micro investigated waves of the APT28’s targeted credential phishing attacks and collected thousands of email samples sent out by the group since 2014.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Security researchers at Check Point have discovered several flaws in the popular game Fortnite that could be exploited to takeover gamers’account. One of the flaws is an OAuth account takeover vulnerability that could have allowed a remote attacker to takeover gamer accounts tricking players into clicking a specially crafted link.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

million phishing ads for violation of its policies. million phishing ads. Google also revealed it was able to identify threat actors behind bad ads with the help of improved machine learning technology, it terminated nearly one million bad advertiser accounts. phishing ads appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Across Google products, we’re seeing bad actors use COVID-related themes to create urgency so that people respond to phishing attacks and scams.” One notable phishing campaign observed by Google’s experts targeted personal accounts of U.S. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

Kaspersky researchers found over 30 fraudulent websites and social media profiles disguised as official movie accounts (the actual number of these sites may be much higher) that supposedly distribute free copies of the latest film in the franchise.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch a phishing campaign against its donors. ” The phishing email utilized a Constant Contact tracking URL that redirected the victims to a page designed to steal donors’ credit card details.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Rampant Kitten has been active at least since 2014 and was involved in ongoing surveillance operations against Iranian minorities, anti-regime organizations, and resistance movements. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Rampant Kitten).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Experts have uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting the United Nations and NGOs, including UNICEF and UN World Food. Security firm Lookout uncovered an ongoing spear-phishing campaign aimed at NGOs, including human rights organizations such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food and the UN Development programs.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Phishing returned as the second most utilized vector , representing 22 percent of intrusions as compared to 12 percent in 2021.” “Of Furthermore, these adversaries demonstrated a willingness to get personal with their targets, bullying and threatening many of them. ”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom , was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

The University of Utah Health disclosed a security breach, it has discovered malware on its systems and revealed unauthorized access to some employee email accounts. Attackers breached the organization with a phishing attack, the intrusion took place between January 7 and February 21, 2020. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Experts spotted a phishing campaign that employees overlay screens and email ‘quarantine’ policies to steal Microsoft Outlook credentials from the victims. Researchers from Cofense discovered a phishing campaign that uses overlay screens and email ‘quarantine’ policies to steal Microsoft Outlook credentials from the targets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Industrial sector hit by a surgical spear-phishing campaign aimed at installing legitimate remote administration software on victims’ machines. Attackers personalized the content of each phishing email reflecting the activity of the target organization and the type of work performed by the employee to whom the email is sent.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. of all Gmail accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

GADOLINIUM abuses Microsoft cloud services as command and control infrastructure, the experts uncovered a spear-phishing campaign using messages with weaponized attachments. “ Microsoft also took down a GitHub account that was used by the Gadolinium group as part of a 2018 campaign. ” states Microsoft’s report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

Researchers from the IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) reported that attackers launched a COVID-19-themed spear-phishing campaign to steal the user credentials of over 100 senior executives. Once the attackers have obtained the login credentials they are sent to via email to several Yandex email accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The attackers targeted the employees at the merchant with a phishing campaign to obtain credentials for user accounts and were able to take over an administrator account. The recent attacks demonstrate that the threat actors continue to target merchant POS systems to harvest card present payment account data.

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