Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cyber cops in Ukraine carried out an arrest and several raids last week in connection with the author of a U-Admin , a software package used to administer what’s being called “one of the world’s largest phishing services.” The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. million records): Hackers successfully breached the accounts of two Marriott employees and compromised the PII of at least 5.2

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers. A screenshot of the phishing domain privatemessage dot net.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The most recent data in this database is from May 2020. Now, a cybercriminal using the monicker Jurak, leaked sensitive information related to roughly 12 million accounts, which allegedly stems from a breach that happened last year. This would be the 2nd (hacked back in 2020) major data breach for Zacks. . Take your time.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

After a user logs in, the link prompts them to install a malicious but innocuously-named app that gives the attacker persistent, password-free access to any of the user’s emails and files, both of which are then plundered to launch malware and phishing scams against others. Image: Proofpoint.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 2, 2020

And then there's Scott's Grindr account. 22% of breaches begin with phishing (DBIR 2020). This week there's a lot of connected things: connected shoes, connected garage camera and connected GoPro. This week there's all the above and, on a more personal note, my relationship with Charlotte. Sponsored by: Tines.

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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. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. PST on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug.

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Researchers on Thursday reported that despite a 50% increase in mobile device management (MDM) adoption during the past year, average quarterly exposure to phishing attacks on mobile devices in the financial sector rose by 125% – and malware and app risk exposure increased by more than five times. (Uris at English Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 ).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

TARGETED PHISHING. But the more insidious threat with hacked databases comes not from password re-use but from targeted phishing activity in the early days of a breach, when relatively few ne’er-do-wells have got their hands on a hot new hacked database. The targeted phishing message that went out to classicfootballshirts.co.uk

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K. A Scattered Spider phishing lure sent to Twilio employees.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 In this report, we cover PC and mobile threats as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on popular games. Methodology.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this study, we analyzed how long phishing pages survive as well as the signs they show when they become inactive. In addition to the general data, we provided a number of options for classifying phishing pages according to formal criteria and analyzed the results for each of them. Life cycle of phishing pages. Introduction.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings. The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Scammers who had already stolen someone’s bank account credentials could enter the target’s phone number and name, and the service would initiate an automated phone call to the target that warned them about unauthorized activity on their account. The NCA said it began investigating the service in June 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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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. The links in their messages took the victim to a well-designed phishing pages with official emblems, business language and references to relevant laws. Quarterly highlights. Vaccine with cyberthreat.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

In November 2020, KrebsOnSecurity heard from security researcher Abraham Vegh , who noticed something odd while inspecting an email from his financial institution. The messages from Netspend all were to confirm the email address tied to a new account, and concerned “me-to-me transfers” set up through its service.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Abnormal’s Crane Hassold wrote. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The HeartSender group has sold phishing tools to criminals since 2020, causing over $3 million in U.S. The Saim Raza group run multiple marketplaces that advertised and facilitated the sale of hacking and fraud tools, including malware, phishing kits and email extractors. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Microsoft is tracking an ongoing Office 365 phishing campaign aimed at enterprises that is able to detect sandbox solutions and evade detection. Microsoft is tracking an ongoing Office 365 phishing campaign that is targeting enterprises, the attacks are able to detect sandbox solutions and evade detection.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected–and do the best we can in a rapidly changing world. Don’t re-use passwords: Yes, keeping track of passwords for all of your accounts can be a chore, but using the same password means that one breached account can be used to others that use the same user credentials.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bad ops of operators of a phishing campaign exposed credentials stolen in attacks and made them publicly available through Google queries. . Check Point Research along with experts from cybersecurity firm Otorio shared details on their investigation into a large-scale phishing campaign that targeted thousands of global organizations.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4 Meanwhile, threat actors’ siege on web applications surged 62 percent in 2020 vs. 2019: Akamai observed nearly 6.3 Q: The scale of ‘attacks’ in 2020 is astronomical: 6.3 I’ve known Ragan for a long time and greatly respect his work. It is astronomical.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After 1Password, BeyondTrust, and Cloudflare detected unauthorized log-in attempts to their in-house Okta administrator accounts, they reported the incidents to Okta who started an investigation. To gain access to that service account, the attacker compromised an Okta employee. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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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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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

From AI-generated voices to realistic websites and stolen accounts, scams today are slick, fast, and global. Romance & Dating Scams Over 400 million lost since 2020. MFA Bypass Methods: SIM swaps, malware, or phishing sites that trick you into revealing or approving access. Often promoted through fake celebrity endorsements.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. The system does not hold any bank or credit card details.”

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Phishing scammers love well known brand names, because people trust them, and their email designs are easy to rip off. Google searches for DocuSign almost doubled during March 2020, and stayed there, as so many people around the world started working from home. We’ve included some examples of DocuSign phishing campaigns below.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2024

Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country's emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

This type of targeted phishing or whaling (executive-level) attack tricks email recipients into believing someone they know and trust is asking them to carry out a specific financial task. The CFO commonly carries out such tasks and arranges a wire transfer using the account information provided on the invoice. Scenario 2. Scenario 3.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. ua-passport[.]space

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. These malicious actions all lay the groundwork for secondary attacks such as committing identity theft and creating HTTPS-protected phishing pages. Its aim is to foster dialogue around the importance of privacy. A Streamlined Data Security Strategy.

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