Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs has identified a sophisticated phishing campaign leveraging a new variant of Remcos RAT (Remote Administration Tool).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2025

Recent Guardz research shows that more than 15% of the tools advertised on dark web forums target vulnerabilities like EternalBlue , a known Windows flaw dating back to 2017 that still hasnt been fully remediated across the globe. That means: Training employees to recognize phishing and avoid risky behavior.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882, to spread the Agent Tesla malware. Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), as part of phishing campaigns to spread the Agent Tesla malware.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Dubbed TA2541 by Proofpoint researchers, the group has been attacking targets in several critical industries since 2017 with phishing emails and cloud-hosted malware droppers. The post Researchers discover common threat actor behind aviation and defense malware campaigns appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The KONNI RAT was first discovered in May 2017 by researchers from the Cisco Talos team after it was employed in attacks aimed at organizations linked to North Korea. The malware has been active since at least 2014, it was undetected for more than 3 years and was used in highly targeted attacks. ” reads the CISA’s alert.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command : USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and recommends immediate #patching.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2021

If that trend continues, or even if there is only an average of 141 new compromises per month for the next six months, the total will still exceed the previous high of 1,632 breaches set in 2017. The post Phishing, Ransomware Driving Wave of Data Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureList

MARCH 10, 2025

We continued to monitor the group throughout the rest of the year, observing intense activity that included updates to SideWinder’s toolset and the creation of a massive new infrastructure to spread malware and control compromised systems. Infection flow The attacker sends spear-phishing emails with a DOCX file attached.

Energy and Utilities 116

Energy and Utilities Malware Government Phishing 116

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Experts uncovered a new Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) -themed campaign that is distributing a malware downloader that delivers the FormBook information-stealing Trojan. Experts at MalwareHunterTeam uncovered a new malspam campaign exploiting the fear in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) to deliver malware. states the analysis published by FireEye.

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Malware Scams Social Engineering Phishing 145

Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The DOJ said it did not seek to disinfect compromised devices; instead, it obtained court orders to remove the Cyclops Blink malware from its “command and control” servers — the hidden machines that allowed the attackers to orchestrate the activities of the botnet. energy facilities. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2025

. “The threat actor also used other means to distribute the malware, such as attaching the same file to emails and exploiting the Microsoft Office Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) [1].” Experts observed Kimsuky sending phishing emails targeting Korea and Japan from compromised systems.

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Phishing Malware Security Intelligence Hacking 80

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

China-linked BlackTech cyberespionage group was targeting Japanese companies using new malware tracked as ‘Flagpro’. Researchers from NTT Security reported that China-linked BlackTech cyberespionage group targeted Japanese companies using new malware tracked as ‘Flagpro’. “It means that they are actively developing new malwares.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 27, 2017

According to Verizon's 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, espionage-related attacks are growing in popularity, with malware and phishing still go-to tools for hackers as well.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2024

” The attackers use these decoy documents as a diversive tactic while while the malware is being deployed. Upon opening the decoy file, it relies on a remote template injection technique ( CVE-2017-0199 ) to gain initial access to the target’s system. ” reads the analysis published by the BlackBerry researchers.

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Phishing Malware Hacking Information Security 122

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A China-based financially motivated group, tracked as Fangxiao, is behind a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. Researchers from Cyjax reported that a China-based financially motivated group, dubbed Fangxiao, orchestrated a large-scale phishing campaign since 2017. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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Phishing Adware Retail Malware 131

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

A new malware developed by China is on the prowl on the web and is seen targeting Japanese companies for now. BlackTech Cyber Espionage APT group linked to Chinese intelligence was found distributing Flagpro in two stages via Phishing emails.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SideWinder’s most recent campaign schema Infection vectors The SideWinder attack chain typically starts with a spear-phishing email with an attachment, usually a Microsoft OOXML document (DOCX or XLSX) or a ZIP archive, which in turn contains a malicious LNK file. In particular, Avast and AVG solutions are of interest to the malware.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

As early as 2017, cybercriminals have been incorporating capabilities to defeat 2FA into their kits. Academics from Stony Brook University and Palo Alto Networks—namely Brian Kondracki, Babak Amin Azad, Nick Nikiforakis, and Oleksii Starov—have found at least 1,200 phishing kits online capable of capturing or intercepting 2FA security codes.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 23, 2025

A new phishing campaign distributing the FormBook infostealer malware has been uncovered by Fortinets FortiGuard Labs, targeting Windows The post FormBook Malware Spreads via Sophisticated Phishing Attack appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One of them even infected visitors with the SocGolish malware , a sophisticated JavaScript malware framework that has been actively used by cybercriminals since at least 2017. Malware injection where the criminals inject malicious code into your web shop by abusing a vulnerability in the platform itself or a plug-in.

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Small Business Data breaches Phishing Malware 80

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

The four malware families are named Guildma, Javali, Melcoz, and Grandoreiro, experts believe are the result of a Brazilian banking group/operation that is evolving its capabilities targeting banking users abroad. Experts noticed that the malware uses the BITSAdmin tool to download the additional modules.

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SecureList

MAY 3, 2021

Banking phishing: new version of an old scheme. Clients of several Dutch banks faced a phishing attack using QR codes. In actual fact, scanning the code resulted in a data leak, money theft or device infection, if it contained a link to a web page with malware. Quarterly highlights. Vaccine with cyberthreat.

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Phishing Banking Accountability Computers and Electronics 137

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.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2025

Victims are sent unsolicited invitations to join Zoom calls, often via links in phishing emails or messages. Once control is granted, the attacker can secretly install malware, including infostealers and remote access trojans (RATs), onto the victim's machine. Lazarus is also behind significant cryptocurrency heists, such as the $1.5

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

in parking lots) redirect to malware ridden websites. MFA Bypass Methods: SIM swaps, malware, or phishing sites that trick you into revealing or approving access. App-based MFA (like Google Authenticator ) is more secure, but still vulnerable to SIM swaps or malware. Goods are never delivered or are counterfeit.

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Scams Password Management Passwords Banking 130

Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The malware samples shared by USCYBERCOM last week were first detected in December 2016 in attacks attributed to Iran-linked APT33. Last week the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) uploaded to VirusTotal a malware used by Iran-linked APT33 group in attacks in Dec 2016 and Jan 2017. ” reads the report.

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Malware InfoSec Advertising Government 106

Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

In many cases, attackers targeted unpatched versions of Telerik user interface (UI) by exploiting CVE-2019-18935 , CVE-2017-9248 , CVE-2017-11317 , CVE-2017-11357 vulnerabilities. “The ACSC has identified instances where users have executed malware embedded in email attachments. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware Advertising Government Cyber Attacks 125

The Hacker News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attackers are weaponizing an old Microsoft Office vulnerability as part of phishing campaigns to distribute a strain of malware called Agent Tesla.

Malware 106

Malware Phishing 106

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

Cyber researchers warn of a modified Zoom app that was used by threat actors in a phishing campaign to deliver the IcedID Malware. Cyble researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign targeting users of the popular video conferencing and online meeting platform Zoom to deliver the IcedID malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware Phishing Banking Hacking 98

Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

“This is the largest release from Microsoft this year and the largest since at least 2017,” said Dustin Childs , from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). “BlackLotus can bypass functionality called secure boot, which is designed to block malware from being able to load when booting up. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Today, we are showing readers just what that evolution looked like, in our State of Malware 2021 report. This report provides our most comprehensive analysis of last year’s malware trends, with breakdowns by malware category, malware type, operating system, region, industry, and more.

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Malware Scams Spyware Healthcare 132

SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Interestingly enough, the share of adware attacks increased in relation to mobile malware in general. They typically work with malware developers to achieve this.

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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 145

Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

Ave Maria Malware – Phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The Cybaze -Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector.

Malware 106

Malware Phishing Advertising InfoSec 106

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

According to a research conducted by Proofpoint, cybersecurity researchers have been targeting the servers operating in aerospace and defense sector with a Trojan malware and the hacking group behind the incident has been dubbed as TA2541.

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Malware Phishing Hacking Ransomware 98