Troy Hunt

AUGUST 30, 2023

They'd observed a phishing campaign that had collected 68k credentials from unsuspecting victims and asked if HIBP may be used to help alert these individuals to their exposure. Data accumulated by the malicious activity spanned from October 2022 until just last week. Last week I was contacted by CERT Poland.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a campaign where threat actors exploit misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to send phishing emails. How the attack works The JavaGhost group, active since 2019, initially focused on website defacements before shifting to financially motivated phishing attacks in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. US phishing domains.US This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2022

Those include remote code execution bugs CVE-2022-24512 , affecting.NET and Visual Studio , and CVE-2022-21990 , affecting Remote Desktop Client. CVE-2022-24459 is a vulnerability in the Windows Fax and Scan service. All three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities are rated “ Important ” by Microsoft.

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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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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by threat actors. The post BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 24, 2022

A study conducted by Agari and PhishLabs found a five-times increase in attempted vishing attacks from the beginning of 2021 to Q1 of 2022. The post Voice phishing attacks reach all-time high appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com. The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. — and charged him with stealing at least $800,000 from five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. Urban allegedly went by the nicknames “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob, ” and is believed to be part of the same crew that hacked Twilio and a slew of other companies in 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2025

The FBI has issued a new warning to US law firms about an ongoing and increasingly aggressive phishing campaign orchestrated by the cybercriminal group Luna Moth. The post FBI Warns Law Firms: Hackers Are Calling Offices in Stealth Phishing Scam appeared first on eSecurity Planet. Enable two-factor authentication across all systems.

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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. GoDaddy has not disclosed the source of the breach in December 2022 that led to malware on some customer websites. In a filing with the U.S.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 22, 2022

A new wave of targeted voicemail phishing attacks has been hitting US companies in selected verticals since May 2022. The post Targeted voicemail phishing attacks hits specific US industries’ verticals appeared first on TechRepublic. The campaign’s goal is to collect Office 365 credentials of legitimate corporate users.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 19, 2022

LinkedIn was exploited in almost half of the phishing attempts seen by Check Point Research during the second quarter of 2022. The post LinkedIn and Microsoft are the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 19, 2022

Phishing attacks aimed at stealing LinkedIn account credentials surged during the first quarter of 2022, says Check Point Research. The post LinkedIn was the most exploited brand in phishing attacks last quarter appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 24, 2023

The post Spearphishing report: 50% of companies were impacted in 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic. Barracuda Networks found that spearphishing exploits last year worked to great effect and took days to detect.

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Javvad Malik

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Anyway, back in the hall, the session started and i joined as we're being told about a phishing attack and 2fa bypass @bsidesTLL. Lot's of pitfalls to look out for with 3rd party SSO sessions and crafty phishing methods. Originally tweeted by The Javvad Malik A.I. ( @J4vv4D ) on September 22, 2022.

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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. The messages began at 2022-07-20 22:50 UTC.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2025

Hive0117 targets Russian firms in multiple sectors with phishing attacks using a modified version of the DarkWatchman malware. A cybercrime group named Hive0117 is behind a fresh phishing campaign that targeted Russian organizations with a new version of the DarkWatchman malware, according to Russian cybersecurity firm F6.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 26, 2024

On the popular pirate e-book site Z-Library, or rather its phishing clone Z-lib, created in late 2022, there was a recent data breach affecting nearly 10 million users. On June 27, 2024, the Cybernews... The post 10 Million Users Compromised in Z-Library Phishing Site Hack appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2023

In its H1 2023 Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights , Perception Point reported an overall increase in social engineering attacks, including a 20% growth in the prevalence of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks along with a 41% surge in phishing attacks from H2 2022 to H1 2023.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Between September 2021 and April 2023, the hackers carried out phishing attacks to steal login credentials from employees of 12 companies and individuals. Hackers in their teens and 20s allegedly carried out phishing attacks via fake text messages to steal login credentials from employees of 12 companies and individuals.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The fake USPS phishing page. Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries. com usps.trckspost[.]com

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

From generating deepfakes to enhancing phishing campaigns, GAI is evolving into a tool for large-scale cyber offenses GAI has captured the attention of researchers and investors for its transformative potential across industries. GAI is also a boon for attackers seeking financial gain. As the technology evolves, so will its misuse.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2023

The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. ” Pivoting on the domain in the smishing message sent to Dylan shows the phishing domain shared an Internet host in Russia [91.215.85-166]

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Unlike phishing links that are easy to check and block, QR code is a headache for security solutions. Malevolent uses of QR codes in email Fraudsters use QR codes to encode links to phishing and scam pages. The campaign was not very large scale and dwindled by around mid-2022.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Bumblebee has been active since March 2022 when it was spotted by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), experts noticed that cybercriminal groups that were previously using the BazaLoader and IcedID as part of their malware campaigns switched to the Bumblebee loader. lnk” that, once executed, starts the attack chain.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In March 2022, we observed a Microsoft Word file that was used as the infection vector in some attacks. The second part will provide technical analysis of the LODEINFO backdoor and the related shellcode for each version of the backdoor with the latest LODEINFO IoCs and related information discovered in 2022. 2022-06-14 03:47:04.A

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 5, 2023

Google, Microsoft and Proton launched new end-to-end encryption products to confront the 50% increase in ransomware, phishing and other email-vector attacks from the first half of 2022. The post Cloud email services bolster encryption against hackers appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2025

Since mid-2022, theyve deployed RomCom via spear-phishing for espionage, lateral movement, and data theft. “The Nebulous Mantis team, which changes the domains they use every month, obtains these spear-phishing and C2 servers from LuxHost and AEZA bulletproof hosting (BPH) services.” ” continues the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2023

By Motti Elloul, VP Customer Success and Incident Response, Perception Point Email phishing scams are nothing new. But they are growing increasingly prevalent and sophisticated – over 3 billion phishing emails are sent every day, and the tactics used to disguise them are only growing more devious.

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SecureList

MAY 15, 2025

It reached its lowest level since the beginning of 2022. The main categories of threats from the internet are denylisted internet resources, malicious scripts and phishing pages. The main categories of threats spreading via email are malicious documents, spyware, malicious scripts and phishing pages.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2025

law firms for 2 years using callback phishing and social engineering extortion tactics. The FBI warns that the Silent Ransom Group, active since 2022 and also known as Luna Moth, has targeted U.S. law firms using phishing and social engineering. FBI warns Silent Ransom Group has targeted U.S. ” concludes the report.

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SecureList

JUNE 22, 2023

For this post, we selected three private reports, namely those related to LockBit and phishing campaigns targeting businesses, and prepared excerpts from these. Phishing and a kit Recently we stumbled upon a Business Email Compromise (BEC) case, active since at least Q3 2022.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year. US phishing domains.

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