SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 Most spam (21.27%) originated in Russia. Agentb malware family.

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Phishing Malware Scams Accountability 136

SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s columnist, Marcus Kaber of Specops Software, writes that as much as the tech companies are pushing biometrics options like facial recognition, most enterprises still run on legacy passwords. Enterprise security and IT are mostly well aware of these many password-driven risks. Industry must double down on password protection.

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Passwords Data breaches Social Engineering Security Awareness 79

Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

After a data breach in 2023 Cerebral disclosed that it had been using invisible pixel trackers from Google, Meta (Facebook), TikTok, and other third parties on its online services since October 2019. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

Data breaches 107

Data breaches Passwords Phishing Password Management 107

Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Google says YouTube creators have been targeted with password-stealing malware in phishing attacks coordinated by financially motivated threat actors since at least late 2019. [.].

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Malware Accountability Phishing Passwords 125

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. It seems obvious and important therefore to tell users not to reuse passwords.

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Passwords Password Management Accountability Internet 91

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. In 2014 eBay announced that over 145 million users’ information had been stolen, including names, addresses, date of birth, and passwords. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors.

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Backups Passwords Identity Theft Malware 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve seen numerous attack campaigns targeting this region come to the surface in 2019 alone. Not all employees are familiar with phishing and other digital threats, for instance. It will now be bringing those solutions with it to GITEX 2019. Digital criminals won’t stop targeting the Middle East. We hope to see you there!

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Telecommunications Encryption Software Banking 92

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. Why get rid of passwords?

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Passwords Accountability Authentication Phishing 84

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bryan hijacked social media and bitcoin accounts using a mix of voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks and “ SIM swapping ,” a form of fraud that involves bribing or tricking employees at mobile phone companies. Milleson , 21 of Timonium, Md. and 19-year-old Kingston, Pa. resident Kyell A.

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Scams Wireless Identity Theft Mobile 294

Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . charlysatoshi. This is a real email!

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Passwords Cryptocurrency Data breaches Advertising 66

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. It works because users often use the same password for multiple websites. It's good in theory but fails in practice.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined. While the number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 decreased by 58% compared to 2019, the coronavirus pandemic gave cybercriminals new ways to thrive,” wrote Bitdefender researcher and blogger Alina Bizga. Marriott (5.2

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Data breaches Social Engineering Antivirus Scams 252

Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. What is the Most Common Form of Phishing?

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Phishing Scams Media Backups 99

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

Security researchers at Cofense have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers distributing a new remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as WSH RAT. “This new variant is named WSH Remote Access Tool (RAT) by the malware’s author and was released on June 2, 2019. .” ” continues the post.

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Banking Phishing Advertising Malware 104

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

. “We became aware of a data security incident involving unauthorized access to our systems in February 2019. We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. ” continues the data breach notification note.

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Passwords Retail Accountability Data breaches 75

Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 21, 2021

According to Google, YouTube influencers have been targeted with password-stealing malware in a phishing campaign allegedly conducted by Russian-speaking cybercriminals. According to them, the YouTube creators have been targeted […].

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Accountability Phishing Passwords Malware 80

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Cofense researchers spotted a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States to infect them with the Amadey malware. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States attempting to infect them with a new piece of malware named Amadey. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Phishing Social Engineering Malware Advertising 88

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Already, three of the big companies were targeted by threat actors who use phishing attacks to spread the malicious OAuth application. OAuth is a kind of open standard password-based access to get access to sensitive data from an application.

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Phishing Authentication Passwords Risk 123

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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Phishing Mobile Advertising Scams 47

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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Phishing Accountability Social Engineering Mobile 52

SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. Traditionally, the study covers the common phishing threats encountered by users, along with Windows and Android-based financial malware.

Banking 118

Banking Phishing Malware Mobile 118

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, 97% of us can’t tell a phishing email from a legitimate one. Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”. Humans can be distracted, intimidated and especially – misled.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts. Multi-factor authentication is so much more secure, and with that a lot more forgiving, than passwords alone. So we wholeheartedly agree with Amazon on this.

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Authentication Passwords Social Engineering Accountability 124

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Using a compromised password, an unauthorized third party accessed the provisioning system in our legacy code base for Managed WordPress.” ” The intruders used a compromised password to access the provisioning system in the company’s legacy code base for Managed WordPress. We reset both passwords.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Phishing 128

Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don't use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

Ransomware 81

Ransomware Computers and Electronics Passwords Identity Theft 81

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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Phishing Accountability Advertising DNS 143

Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.

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Accountability Hacking Backups Passwords 221

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

Cryptocurrency 363

Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 363

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Accountability Malware Phishing Social Engineering 135

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Anti-malware/ phishing. The anti-malware and anti-phishing option in some VPNs doubles up to a company’s cybersecurity by intercepting phishing attacks, pop-up adverts, and other malicious cyber threats.

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Cybersecurity Password Management Passwords VPN 106

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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Hacking Passwords Internet Internet 174

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Recent reporting indicates cyber criminals will continue targeting healthcare payment processors through a variety of techniques, such as phishing campaigns and social engineering, to spoof support centers and obtain user access.” ” reads the alert. The attacker stole $3.1 million with this attack.

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Healthcare Social Engineering Accountability Passwords 91

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. “TAG tracks more than 270 targeted or government-backed groups from more than 50 countries. .”We

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Phishing Accountability Advertising Cyber Attacks 140

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to researchers at INKY, in the last few months, there’s been a sharp rise in these work-related phishing lures. Preventing phishing attacks, like the latest phony HR scams, should not fall on individual employees alone. They are fairly convincing emails at first, second and even third glances.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

In a recent statement, AT&T confessed that the leaked data set "appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 This includes updating credentials, using password managers, enabling multi-factor authentication, freezing credit reports, and signing up for identity theft protection services.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Authentication Accountability 80

Hot for Security

JUNE 18, 2021

A recent phishing campaign targeting Windows machines is attempting to infect users with one of the most recent versions of the Agent Tesla remote access Trojan (RAT). Active for over seven years, Agent Tesla has been used frequently in phishing campaigns seeking to steal user credentials, passwords and sensitive information.

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Phishing Malware Spyware Software 105

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. of all phishing schemes in 2021, compared to the 11.1%

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