Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Other cybercrimes that specifically target accounts are spear phishing, social engineering attacks, and password sprays —basic password attack tactics that nation-states carry out against target companies and governments. For example, from January to December 2021, Microsoft detected a jaw-dropping 25.6

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

Consider that the average cost for a ransomware attack against a business is about $4,400, and your run of the mill phishing incident weighs in at a much less hefty $500. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? In September 2019, the Bureau announced that the losses from BEC scams had doubled between May 2018 and July 2019.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

According to Sensity , the number of deepfake videos online has nearly doubled every six months since 2018, and more than 85,000 deepfake videos have been detected as of December 2020. However, by combining this data with deepfakes, cybercriminals can theoretically create almost undetectable phishing attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. An incident investigation conducted by Kaspersky ICS CERT at one of the attacked enterprises revealed that they exploited a vulnerability in FortiGate VPN servers (CVE-2018-13379).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Attacks on bank customers: The decline of Android Trojans and the triumph of phishing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The APT group RedCurl, discovered by Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts, has been active since at least 2018. The earliest known RedCurl attack dates back to May 2018. As with all subsequent campaigns, the initial compromise vector was a well-written phishing email. From Russia to Canada. Who are you, Mr. Pentester?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018. billion records.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Hackers Do a Payroll Diversion Through Phishing. A direct deposit paycheck hack involves getting the necessary details from the victim through a phishing scheme. This method hackers use likely won’t come as a surprise when you consider a few recent statistics about phishing. Security Affairs – Paycheck, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TA544 group leverages phishing and social engineering techniques to lure victims into enabling macro included in weaponized documents. Since 2018, attackers have employed very sophisticated techniques in their attacks. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start. ” Martire told me.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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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. Kaspersky first discovered this malware in 2018, together with the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability. SoleDragon is complex malware used by the SilentBreak threat group.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

At the end of 2018, employees of the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs came across the trail of a group of telephone scammers who had long been involved in fraud, extracting large sums of money from Russian elderly people. SecurityAffairs – phone scammers, cybercrime). It’s rare for one of their victims to escape unscathed.”

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Since the IC3 was created in 2000, it has consistently shined a light on forms of cybercrime – some new and evolving, others belligerently persistent – and has made laudable strides in stopping the fraudulent transfer of funds whenever possible. The report shows that BEC/EAC complaints have reduced from 20,373 in 2018 to 19,369 in 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense. AI-Powered Cybercrime Despite the advancements in using AI to improve security, cybercriminals also have access to AI and LLMs.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. Since 2018, we have been tracking Roaming Mantis – a threat actor that targets Android devices. When opened, this document eventually downloads a backdoor. Roaming Mantis reaches Europe. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. — Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) January 20, 2018. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In late September 2018, the REACT Task Force spearheaded an investigation that led to the arrest of two Missouri men — both in their early 20s — who are accused of conducting SIM swaps to steal $14 million from a cryptocurrency company based in San Jose, Calif. million customers.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. BazarLoader malware usually comes from phishing emails, the advisory says, with a link to a Google Drive document or another file hosting service housing what looks like a PDF file but is really an executable. as phishing attempts often do to gain trust.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We had initially analyzed this Delphi malware in April 2018. We found overlaps in the infrastructure used by a tunneling tool used by the actor and several possible phishing websites set up within the above time frame. The attack targets victims with spear-phishing emails containing malicious OOXML files. Final thoughts.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit CVE-2018-0802. 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.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The initial attack vector was a phishing email disguised as an email from a government entity or service. The group targets its victims by sending spear-phishing emails with Microsoft Office documents attached. We assess with low confidence that this operation has ties to the Lyceum threat group.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio’s activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

government taking a more active role in the battle against cybercrime, more needs to be done defensively to protect the private companies that make?up Here’s why: Total global losses from cybercrime in 2021 are estimated to top $6 trillion , with the U.S. Despite the U.S. of the critical infrastructure in our nation.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

We have designated it as a new threat actor and named it “HotCousin” The attacks began with a spear-phishing email which led to an ISO file container being stored on disk and mounted. Previous activity also connected with this group relied heavily on spear-phishing and Cobalt Strike throughout 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The past year — a harrowing period for the world economy — culminated in the spike of cybercrime. Phishing grows by 118%. IT giants, and media companies.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. Traditionally, these attacks put an emphasis on social engineering, finding innovative new ways to defraud end-users.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. Petya was initially developed by a group called Janus Cybercrime Solutions as part of its ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform. GandCrab burst onto the scene in 2018. One of the first instances was the Love Letter virus of 2000.

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