Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Automating response to phishing attacks remains one of the core use-cases of SOAR platforms. In 2022, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) logged ~4.7 million phishing attacks. Since 2019, the number of phishing attacks has increased by more than 150% yearly.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

In fact, even while MDM adoption rose 50%, quarterly exposure to phishing between 2019 and 2020 jumped by 125%, according to the Lookout Financial Services Threat Report. The post Despite MDM, Financial Services Plagued by Phishing, Malware appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

A spear-phishing attack this week hooked a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. 49 (that domain is hobbled here because it is currently flagged as hosting a phishing site). It was starting to look like someone had gotten phished.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the IC3 Annual Report released in April 2019 financial losses reached $2.7 The total cost of cybercrime for each company in 2019 reached US$13M. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. Financial losses reached $2.7 billion in 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

The report focuses on phishing kits – the driving force of the phishing industry, which is hard to detect but extremely valuable in terms of fight against phishing. The growing demand for phishing kits is also reflected in its price that skyrocketed last year by 149 percent and exceeded $300 per item.

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Trend Micro

JANUARY 24, 2021

We have been following an evolving phishing campaign that targets high-ranking company executives since 2019, reusing compromised credentials and URLs to target more.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. 2, 2019: What Westby’s iPhone displayed as the scam caller’s identity. As I noted in my October 2018 piece, Voice Phishing Scams are Getting More Clever , phone phishing usually invokes an element of urgency in a bid to get people to let their guard down.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You know how banks really, really want to avoid their customers falling victim to phishing scams? And how they put a heap of effort into education to warn folks about the hallmarks of phishing scams? Cc @troyhunt @NAB pic.twitter.com/hCW5ADLo0O — Sebastian Schmidt (@publicarray) November 11, 2019 So.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A China-based financially motivated group is leveraging the trust associated with popular international brands to orchestrate a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. The threat actor, dubbed Fangxiao by Cyjax, is said to have registered over 42,000 imposter domains, with initial activity observed in 2017. "It

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Meta, the Facebook’s parent company, has filed a lawsuit in a Californian court against some hackers who created over 39,000 fake Facebook(FB) pages as a part of a sophisticated phishing campaign. The post Facebook files lawsuit against Phishing Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Adam Levin

MARCH 23, 2020

As more employees are working remotely in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are being targeted by an increasing number of phishing campaigns. . It could very well be a business email compromise (BEC) scam, which cost businesses $26 billion in 2019 alone. The post Working Remotely?

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Cybercrime increasingly went mobile in 2019, with everything from Apple iPhone jailbreaks and rogue Android apps to 5G and mobile-first phishing dominating the news coverage. Here are Threatpost's Top 10 mobile security stories of 2019.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Illustration of what a MiTM phishing would look like. Source: Kondracki, et al).

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Zero Day

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

More than 50% of all phishing attacks that targeted Australia in 2019 were carried out using uPanel, officials said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

Google is urging users to beware of the phishing attacks that are taking place on Google Drive. In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, hackers are seen launching phishing campaigns against Google Drive users by sending them email’s filled with malicious links and locking them from their accounts thereafter.

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NSTIC

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In this post, Shaneé discusses Phishing attacks and scams, as well as ways to keep your information protected. At the end of 2019, an opportunity was presented to join the group’s Usable Cybersecurity program and How did you end up at NIST working on cybersecurity projects?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2022

However, irrespective of age and purpose, everyone who uses it should know how to identify a phishing website. This saves them from getting trapped in consent phishing and other phishing attack types. According to the FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime […].

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2021

94% of malware comes via email and 32% of security breaches in 2019 included phishing, according to statistics, and while there has been a big improvement in the way SMEs. The post Tips to Prepare for an Effective Phishing Attack Simulation appeared first on Indusface.

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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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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Proofpoint's senior director of the threat research team discusses the strange levels that attackers are going to in order to persuade victims to click on phishing messages.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

An international operation conducted by Ukraine’s police, along with the US and Australia peers, shut down the world’s largest phishing Service U-Admin. The phishing service was involved in attacks aimed at financial institutions in 11 countries (Australia, Spain, the U.S., and caused tens of millions of dollars in losses.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Cybercriminals double down on successful internet scams, with a focus on phishing, BEC and other defrauding schemes that have proven to work.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

A crook involved in a spear phishing scheme and that was in Kenya is facing up to 20 years in the US federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars from US universities. Amil Hassan Raage, 48, pleaded guilty last week in a southern California court to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Secure web- phishing. In the first six months of 2020, CERT-GIB blocked a total of 9 304 phishing web resources, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the previous year.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Infection vectors were evenly divided among phishing, vulnerability exploitation, and unauthorized credential use in 2019.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

All it takes is one weak password, one click on a phishing email, or one re-used password that has already been compromised, for an attacker to gain unauthorized access to your site. In SiteLock’s 2019 Website Security Report , we analyzed 6 million websites in our sample data to determine the most prevalent cyber threats websites face today.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

After the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) made a huge splash weeks ago when it told Google and Apple to pull TikTok from their respective app stores, the federal agency is now warning Americans of an increased wave of SMS phishing attacks. According to the FCC, it tracks consumer complaints instead of text volume.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

It typically spreads through two different vectors: perimeter breach, for instance compromising company’s websites; spear-phishing emails and malicious attachments. GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019. The post GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. Figure 2 – Modules of GreyEnergy malware (Figure by ESET).

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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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In 2019, over 320 million users were registered with the MercadoLivre e-commerce platform. . The kill chain starts with phishing messages that use a.docx file that once is opened triggers a template injection attack. The post Phishing campaign targets LATAM e-commerce users with Chaes Malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 8, 2023

Email has been a popular delivery of malware and risk for decades.The first phishing schemes took place in the 1990s, and phishing techniques have only become more sophisticated in the decades since. It’s particularly popular among criminals now; since 2019, the use of phishing scams has increased by 300%.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2019

Cyber Defense eMagazine April 2019 Edition has arrived. GARY BERMAN AND HIS TEAM BELIEVE THAT INFOSEC KNOWLEDGE IS POWERFUL – TAKE YOUR AVERAGE EMPLOYEE AND MAKE THEM A CYBER HERO – YOU WILL EMPOWERED THEM AGAINST THE LATEST SPEAR PHISHING ATTACKS AND RANSOMWARE, IN A FUN EDUCATIONAL WAY. InfoSec Knowledge is Power.

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