The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Phishing attacks are nothing new, but scammers are getting savvier with their tactics. Related: The threat of ‘business logic’ hacks. Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Spear phishing. Phishing via texting.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2021

Microsoft warns of a long-running spear-phishing campaign that has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks since July 2020. Microsoft revealed that a year-long spear-phishing campaign has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks starting with July 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Twitch, the American online streaming platform, was reportedly hacked by an anonymous hacker last month who now claims to leak over 100GB data online to disrupt the future business plans of the victimized company further. The post Twitch hacked, and 100GB data stolen appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 10, 2021

A hacking malware distributed onto 3.25 According to research carried out by a Cybersecurity firm named NordLocker, a hacking group devised malware and distributed it onto millions of PCs in 2018. The post More than 26m user passwords stolen from Amazon, Apple, and Facebook appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. 45% of breaches involved Hacking. 22% involved phishing. Phishing is usually going after credentials, but stealing money is continues to rise in popularity. Hacking, social, and malware have fallen the most.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Microsoft uncovered an extensive series of credential phishing campaigns that employed a custom phishing kit tracked as TodayZoo. Microsoft researchers uncovered a custom phishing kit, dubbed TodayZoo, that was used in an extensive series of credential phishing campaigns. com domain to send the phishing messages.

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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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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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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. So did the 2020 Twitter hack.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020.” The company confirmed that the an investigation into the hack is still ongoing. The post 3.4

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Cuba ransomware has been active since at least January 2020. The Hancitor malware is distributed through phishing emails, or using compromised credentials, exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, or legitimate Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) tools to gain initial access to a victim’s network. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Another noticeable phishing trend targeting the corporate sector was to exploit popular cloud services as bait.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

KillSomeOne was first disclosed by a Sophos report in November 2020. Threat actors conducted spear-phishing attacks, using files related to current events as bait, such as the Taiwanese presidential election that took place in January 2024. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) William Evanina shared information on ongoing operations aimed at influencing the 2020 US election. In recent months, the group carried out brute force attacks and password spray, instead of spear-phishing, likely to automate their operations. Trump for President campaign.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A statement from the SEC read as follows: “According to SEC, it has penalized eight companies in three actions for negligence of their cyber protection guidelines and procedures that stimulated email account hacks exposing personal data of numerous clients and customers in each firm.” . Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2020

And according to Google, it's happening again in 2020. This specialized team hunts down major cybersecurity threats, including tracking nation-state hacking groups. And according to Shane Huntley , Head of TAG, the team recently uncovered some vital security intel regarding the 2020 U.S. No sign of compromise. improving ?technology

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At times it can seem like a war of attrition, which brings us to the first series of predictions for 2020: CISOs will get worse at their jobs. In 2020 there will be somewhere around 20 billion IoT devices in use around the world. It’s good news for 2020 babies. . 2020 promises to be an interesting ride.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. Coupled with the current pandemic and the cybersecurity threats that have been very prevalent and growing in recent years such as ransomware, there are many different cyber risk types n 2020 that your business needs to prepare for.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The cybersecurity industry faced a challenging combination of new and familiar challenges in 2020. In 2020, hackers actively exploited the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the resulting unemployment. Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2023

The database of the popular RaidForums hacking forum has been leaked on a new hacking forum, 478,000 members exposed. A database belonging to the now-defunct RaidForums cybercrime platform has been leaked on a new hacking forum called Exposed. The database contains data belonging to 478,000 RaidForums members.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Spotify). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 26, 2021

Fact: In November 2020, a database containing over 200 million usernames and passwords was leaked in the infamous Cit0day breach. was a data breach index website that collected previously hacked databases and advertised them in the cybercriminal community and on underground forums. Was your data exposed in the Cit0day breach?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Group-IB’s CERT-GIB analyzed hundreds of coronavirus -related phishing emails and discovered top malware strains in COVID-19 campaigns. Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-GIB ) analyzed hundreds of coronavirus-related phishing emails between February 13 and April 1, 2020. Source: CERT-GIB. Source: CERT-GIB.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Leak data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, such as phishing/spear-phishing attacks, identity theft, and scams. Clubhouse is an invite-only social media app launched in March 2020 that allows its users to participate in audio conversations, or “rooms,” talking about various topics.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means. In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts. The attackers set up fake university login pages and embedded a credential harvester link in phishing emails. Pierluigi Paganini.

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