Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

Microsoft warns of a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms ahead of Tax Day. Tax Day, Microsoft has observed a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms. The phishing attacks began in February 2023, the IT giant reported. Ahead of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims. The infographic below outlines the most common types of phishing attacks used against individuals or businesses. The eight most common forms of phishing-based cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Microsoft has disrupted activity by SEABORGIUM, a Russia-based actor launching persistent phishing, credential and data theft, intrusions, and hack-and-leak campaigns tied to espionage. More details + TTPs in this MSTIC blog: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) August 15, 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors are exploiting the death of Queen Elizabeth II as bait in phishing attacks to steal Microsoft account credentials from victims. Researchers from Proofpoint are warning of threat actors that are using the death of Queen Elizabeth II as bait in phishing attacks. The phishing page (hxxps://auth[.]royalqueenelizabeth[.]com/?)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

A phishing campaign employing QR codes targeted a leading energy company in the US, cybersecurity firm Cofense reported. “Beginning in May 2023, Cofense has observed a large phishing campaign utilizing QR codes targeting the Microsoft credentials of users from a wide array of industries.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. The vulnerability is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Ukraine’s technical security and intelligence service warns of threat actors targeting aimed at gaining access to users’ Telegram accounts. State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection (SSSCIP) of Ukraine spotted a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at gaining access to users’ Telegram accounts.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. Keep reading to find out more!

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

pic.twitter.com/5OUODUt3fu — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) May 20, 2024 The gang claims to have stolen 730GB of data from ATLAS, including Corporate data: Accounts, HR, Finance, Executive, department data, and users and employees’ data. The attacks began with a spam/phishing email containing malicious URL links.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Researchers warn of a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit, called Caffeine, which is being used by cybercriminals. In March 2022, Mandiant researchers discovered threat actors using a shared Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Caffeine. ” reads the report published by Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

A spear-phishing campaign, tracked as Asylum Ambuscade, targets European government personnel aiding Ukrainian refugees. The phishing messages included a weaponized attachment designed to download a Lua-based malware dubbed SunSeed. net) that appears to belong to a compromised Ukranian armed service member.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

Threat actors behind the Twilio hack also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service. The attackers accessed company systems using employee credentials obtained through a sophisticated SMS phishing attack. ” reads an update provided by the company on August 24, 2022.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Resecurity researchers discovered a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) called EvilProxy advertised on the Dark Web. Following the recent Twilio hack leading to the leakage of 2FA (OTP) codes, cybercriminals continue to upgrade their attack arsenal to orchestrate advanced phishing campaigns targeting users worldwide. How It Works?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Python Package Index (PyPI) warns of an ongoing phishing campaign to steal developer credentials and distribute malicious updates. The Python Package Index, PyPI, this week warned of an ongoing phishing campaign that aims to steal developer credentials and inject malicious updates to the packages in the repository.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. The identified phishing e-mail warned the victims about overdue payments to the IRS, which should then be paid via PayPal, the e-mail contained an HTML attachment imitating an electronic invoice.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. The last update of the service was registered May 1, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Application security, information security, network security, disaster recovery, operational security, etc. Improved Data Security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of a surge in the number of attacks from Russian and Iranian nation-state actors. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning of targeted phishing attacks conducted by threat actors based in Russia and Iran. The are increasingly targeting organizations and individuals.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ConnectWise , which offers a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. build and the then-canary 22.9

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

Proofpoint researchers observed the Iran-linked APT group MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm , TEMP.Zagros , TA450, and Static Kitten ) was behind a new phishing campaign in March 2024 that attempted to drop a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution called Atera on the target systems. sender account.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

The hacker conducted a phishing attack, they set up a phishing site that impersonated the official BAYC site claiming that BAYC, MAYC and OthersideMeta holders were able to claim a free NFT for a short period of time. — Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) June 4, 2022.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For example, a popular tactic in spyware attacks is now to send phishing e-mails from compromised corporate mail accounts of a partner organization of the intended victim. And plans to improve information security and introduce new protection tools and measures are predicated, in some way, on the chosen adversary model.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2022 (ETL) report , which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This is the 10 th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2021 and July 2022. ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

Investigations revealed that a threat actor gained access to data, including customer information like emails, usernames, phone numbers, and hashed passwords. Additionally, certain account settings and authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication details were compromised.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. In their 2021 report, Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all breach events. Click the button!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the past, the group’s activity involved persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. Recently, TAG has observed COLDRIVER delivering custom malware via phishing campaigns using PDFs as lure documents. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2024

Early adoption by Fortune 100 companies worldwide, LayerX already secures more users than any other browser security solution and enables unmatched security, performance and experience Today’s modern enterprise employees rely heavily on browser-based services and SaaS applications.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The threat actors used sophisticated phishing techniques against bank employees. Imposters in November included the CRM platform HubSpot, data management software Veeam, and account tool Xero.” The Carbanak malware has been active since at least 2014 and has been used by ransomware gangs to infiltrate financial systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The experts pointed out that crooks engaged in phishing activities have started to rely on the popular instant messaging platform more in recent months. On Telegram is possible to find channels that offer: Free phishing kits that can be used to target users of a large number of global and local brands. ” Phishing-as-a-Service.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The APT group was spotted exploiting public-facing servers, it was observed sending spear phishing emails to deliver previously undetected backdoors. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The end of the year is a good time to reflect on the past 12 months and create a plan to improve in 2022. After analyzing the responses, below are five recommendations every CEO should know going into 2022. Security is an investment, and there is a correlation between job openings and current salaries.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Zimbra flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-27926 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2022-27926 flaw affects Zimbra Collaboration version 9.0.0, which is used to host publicly-facing webmail portals. reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

According to the advisory published by Dropbox, the company was the target of a phishing campaign that resulted in access to the GitHub repositories. The company pointed out that no one’s content, passwords, or payment information were accessed, it also remarked that the issue was quickly resolved.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In part two, we are going deep with security: Integrating Security. Automated Account Provisioning, by Adi Sankar. Integrating Meraki Scanning Data with Umbrella Security Events, by Christian Clasen. Integrating Security. Automated Account Provisioning, by Adi Sankar.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 The US topped the list at $5.09

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