Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours. Gone in 24 Hours.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TAG reported that Iranian-government-backed actors, known as APT35 and by the aliases Rocket Kitten and Charming Kitten, are quickly picking up speed, especially when it comes to implementing slick phishing attacks. Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. “APT28 has been known to access vulnerable routers by using default and weak SNMP community strings, and by exploiting CVE-2017-6742 (Cisco Bug ID: CSCve54313) as published by Cisco.” government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims.

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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

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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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 2, 2017. — Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) December 3, 2017. Seems slightly unfair to vilify @NadineDorries for what is common practice — JamesClayton (@JamesClayton5) December 3, 2017. No one else has access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

“Iarmak and his conspirators compromised millions of financial accounts, causing over a billion dollars in losses to Americans and costs to America’s economy,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Mr. ” continues DoJ. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

ransomware in May 2017, and the extortion and attempted extortion of victim companies from 2017 through 2020 involving the theft of sensitive data and deployment of other ransomware. The hackers employed false and fraudulent personas when they sent spear-phishing messages to victims. Department of State, and the U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. That’s not all: cybercriminals attempted to compromise more websites in Q3 2017 than in the previous quarter, increasing their attempted attacks by 16 percent. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said given the entities compromised — and that only a handful of known compromises occurred outside of France — there’s a strong possibility this was the result of an orchestrated phishing campaign targeting French infrastructure firms. There is a third Skype account nicknamed “Fatal.001”

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. The unsuspecting accountant asks the employee to send his new bank details.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From a certain perspective, 2018 hasn’t been as dramatic a cybersecurity year as 2017, in that we haven’t seen as many global pandemics like WannaCry. Still, Ransomware, zero-day exploits, and phishing attacks, were among the biggest threats facing IT security teams this year. Related: WannaCry signals worse things to come.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

Once purchased a pool of proxies, threat actors could redirect malicious internet traffic through the IP addresses associated with the compromised devices and carry out a broad range of malicious activities, including credential stuffing attacks, accessing compromised social media accounts, and sending out phishing messages.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

million online accounts at 17 companies, including online retailers, restaurant chains and food delivery services, according to the report. Users – forced to contend with an ever-expanding number of online accounts they must manage – tend to reuse the same passwords across multiple online services.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. You’ve likely read about high-profile cyberattacks in the headlines after a major data breach, such as the Equifax breach in 2017. What is a cyberattack? Ransomware.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Some of these include phishing, vishing , social media, and crowdfunding platforms. Phishing attacks are done over email and are one of the most popular vectors for scammers and cyber criminals. Back in 2017, there was a viral story about a homeless veteran who gave all his money to a woman on the side of the road with no gas.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). T1386) and spread over spear phishing campaigns as shown on delivery section. T1027), WebShell (rif.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

” reads the blog post published by MalwareBytes. Cobalt crime gang is a Russian hacking crew that has been active since at least 2016, it targeted banks worldwide, the group leveraged spear-phishing emails to compromise target systems, spoofed emails from financial institutions or a financial supplier/partner.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

— SignNow (@signnow) September 6, 2017. Having watched this pattern play out over the years, the offending Twitter accounts do seem to eventually realise that the strategy is either ineffective or simply pisses too many people off and cease the spam after a little while. It's the same deal - targeted spam.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. The phishing emails claimed to have urgent updates on today’s hottest topic – COVID-19 infections.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog will cover how we discovered CVE-2024-21378 and weaponized it by modifying Ruler , an Outlook penetration testing tool published by SensePost. In late 2015, Nick Landers, Co-Founder of Dreadnode, published a blog on the abuse of Outlook Rules for RCE. are displayed through a form structure in an “inspector window”.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

How can we prevent a replay of the 2017 attacks against Ukraine’s power grid from happening here? Even private companies like Colonial, until now under less pressure than a public utility to account for compromises, should be invited in. infrastructure cybersecurity? Don’t forget to secure corporate networks, too.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you have a blog on your site, pay special attention to the comment section; attackers often use it to flood a site with nefarious or irrelevant links, which damages your reputation and your site’s domain authority. To help protect your site, here are some of the most common stealthy cybersecurity threats to be aware of: Phishing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

The Necurs botnet was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April 2017 when it was observed using a new technique to avoid detection. ” reads a blog post published by the firm. ” continues the blog post. “At times, they’ve been known to be inactive for weeks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2021

We regularly blogged about his spam campaigns. 10APR2013 - " New Spam Attack accounts for 62% of our spam! ". We believed that Kelihos was sending FOUR BILLION SPAM MESSAGES PER DAY, and took the time to prove it was delivering ransomware attacks, banking trojan attacks, and phishing attacks. Here's some examples: .

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In this blog, we’re rounding up some of the main events we were involved in during European Cybersecurity Month. Keeping with awareness raising, we began the month with a blog that took its cue from the theme of this year’s European Cybersecurity Month campaign. October was a busy month on all fronts here at BH Consulting.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

One such example of a successful nation state initiated DDoS attack used as a retaliatory tactic against a victim’s infrastructure and public services occurred in June 2022 in Lithuania, and is well documented and described by Elizabeth Montalbano in a June 2022 blog post at ThreatPost. Russian espionage group APT28 (a.k.a.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Its operators seem to leverage vulnerabilities in external-facing servers while utilizing compromised account credentials to gain access and spread the malware further. In June 2017, Russia— as concluded by the CIA just months later —unleashed a cyberattack on Ukraine that spilled out into the world. But here, the stakes have changed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017). in March 2023, which is the most current version.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The victims are targeted with spear-phishing emails that trick them into mounting a malicious ISO file and double-clicking an LNK, which starts the infection chain. First, the actor sends a spear-phishing email to the potential victim with a lure to download additional documents. We believe the attacks occur in several stages.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. dongleauth.info. Finally, while there are.

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