Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. In a filing with the U.S.

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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. Stamford, Ct. Stamford, Ct.-based

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. SECURITY CATEGORY (PHISHING).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

A successful DKIM check also verifies ownership of the email by matching the organization in the “from” fields of the email with the DNS associated with the organization. DKIM deploys as text files in an organization’s hosted Domain Name Service (DNS) record, but the standard can be complex to deploy correctly and maintain.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. The latest wave of attacks aimed at spreading phishing links via SMS messages (SMiShing), most of the victims were users in Russia, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Vietnam.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Roaming Mantis SMS phishing campaign is now targeting Android and iPhone users in Europe with malicious apps and phishing pages. Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 5, 2018. For example, check out how it's used when embedded in the TXT record of a DNS entry which is then loaded into a WHOIS service which doesn't properly output encode the results. This is from CVE-2018-12529 and the sample exploit was taken from the SecurityResearch101 blog. DNS Hijacking.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing ??attacks The Government Team for Response to Computer Emergencies of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing messages conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) against Ukrainian state bodies. attacks conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) on state organizations of Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. Then the attackers used the hijacked domain to launch spear-phishing attacks against some of its customers. In January 2018 Coincheck was hacked and attackers stole $400 million. NS ????????????

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In mid-August, the state-sponsored hackers launched a highly targeted spear-phishing email to a high-ranking office in a Middle Eastern nation. “In August 2018, Unit 42 observed OilRig targeting a government organization using spear-phishing emails to deliver an updated version of a Trojan known as BONDUPDATER.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. When it didn’t hear from French authorities after almost a week, HYAS asked the dynamic DNS provider to “ sinkhole ” the malware network’s control servers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

The operations described by QiAnXin are attributed to an APT group active since at least April 2018. Some of the phishing emails from the current campaign were sent from IP addresses corresponding to a range that belongs to Powerhouse Management, a VPN service. These files have fewer than a dozen sightings each.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

“Lancefly’s custom malware, which we have dubbed Merdoor, is a powerful backdoor that appears to have existed since 2018.” The attack chain employed in 2020 started with a phishing email with a lure based on the 37th ASEAN Summit. The intelligence-gathering campaign started in mid-2022 and is likely still ongoing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected devices to the IP address under the control of the attackers. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2018

Rather, it’s likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with their own versions of the phishing email after noticing that some recipients were actually paying up. All of those two-name domains used domain name servers (DNS servers) from uscourtsgov-dot-com at the time these emails were sent. Source: Archive.org.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

million) in just in 2 days. · CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal. · Linux Kernel Project rolled out security updates to fix two DoS vulnerabilities. · 2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1. · Marap modular downloader opens the doors to further attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . There are different kinds of cyber attacks that are faced by small businesses, including malware, phishing, SQL injection, DNS tunneling, and more. In fact, Phishing alone accounts for 90% of small business cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. Last DNS activity was in December 2018. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. group_c : from January 2018 to February 2018 4. 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.

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SecureList

MAY 1, 2023

Can ChatGPT detect phishing links? We work on applying machine learning technologies to cybersecurity tasks, specifically models that analyze websites to detect threats such as phishing. live/login.php Yes, it is likely a phishing attempt. Is it phishing? Please explain why.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The OopsIE Trojan is one of the malware in the APT’s arsenal that was detected for the first time in February 2018. “In July 2018 , we reported on a wave of OilRig attacks delivering a tool called QUADAGENT involving a Middle Eastern government agency. ” reads the analysis published by Paolo Alto Network.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Prior to April 2018, Silence’s target interests were primarily limited to 25 post-Soviet states and neighboring countries. Since the report “Silence: Moving into the darkside” was released in September 2018, Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team has detected at least 16 new campaigns targeting banks launched by Silence.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. Many of these faux-Zoom sites were used to distribute malware under the guise of links to online meetings.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]com. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com Jordan Evan Bloom, posing in front of his Lamborghini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. The Cybaze -Yoroi ZLab dissected one of these recent Danabot variants spread across the Italian cyberspace leveraging “ Fattura ” themed phishing emails (e.g.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. cents per record).

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Since 2018, Lazarus has persistently targeted crypto-currency-related businesses for a long time, using malicious Word documents and themes related to the crypto-currency business to lure potential targets. However, when we started hunting for more samples, we found phishing documents that ultimately dropped EarlyRat.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Email security consists of the policies, tools, and services deployed to protect against threats specific to email such as spam, phishing attacks, malware-infested attachments, impersonation, and email interception. First, the protocols improve the reputation of an organization which boosts the deliverability of marketing emails.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org After parsing the response to the DNS request, the backdoor launches a reverse shell, using the secondary C2 server for communications. org domain. The end result is the DarkGate loader.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We have been tracking Roaming Mantis since 2018, and published five blog posts about this campaign: Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones. Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually. Link from smishing message redirects to Wroba or phishing page. Roaming Mantis, part III.

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