Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2022

Another day, another dollar, another phishing scam that'll make you holler. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the conviction of a California man who stole more than $23 million from the Department of Defense (DOD) through a complex phishing scam. He even hired someone else to pose as the shell company's owner.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Phishing is all around us. There, the employee is tricked into entering personal account details or other confidential information or into downloading an attachment that harbors a virus. If they can access an office, one old method involves scattering flash drives around, hoping a curious employee will plug one into their computer.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

They’re also related to the 2016 arrest of Krasimir Nikolov , a 47-year-old Bulgarian man who was extradited to the United States to face charges for allegedly cashing out bank accounts that were compromised by the GozNym malware. Prosecutors say Nikolov, a.k.a. Vladimir Gorin , a.k.a Avalanche was dismantled in Dec.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some crafty phishing email examples are those emails from your mom, your bank or your boss that require a prompt response… especially the ones from your boss (sorry mom). These phishing email examples may seem a little far-fetched, but they do happen, and happen quite often. Magnolia Health Corporation: CEO Gone Phishing.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Webroot

JUNE 17, 2025

Phishing scams: Phishing scams that target travel-related platforms are on the rise. In 2024, the travel website booking.com reported a 500%-900% increase in travel-related phishing scams. Thieves often access loyalty accounts with credentials stolen in a data breach.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2024

Not only does this trick innocent victims into downloading malware or losing their data to phishing sites, it also erodes trust in brands and by association in Google Search itself. This was the case here with this ad for Authenticator: The truth is Larry Marr has nothing to do with Google, and is likely a fake account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The authorities conducted 16 searches in Madrid, Málaga, Huelva, Alicante and Murcia and seized firearms, a katana, a baseball bat, four high-end cars, 80,000 euros in cash, a database with information on four million people, and computer and electronic material valued in thousands of euros. ” said the Spanish Police.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. million in 2022. of attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

The RSOCKS was composed of millions of compromised computers and other electronic devices around the world, including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. “The U.S. ” reads the announcement published by DoJ.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

These criminals have used phishing, spoofing, extortion and various types of Internet-enabled fraud to target the most vulnerable in our society – medical workers searching for personal protective equipment, families looking for information about stimulus checks to help pay bills and many others. Phishing Scams.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. 27 in the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In just a year, they were able to steal a total of 11.72M USD (10M EUR) from hundreds of victims of phishing attacks and other fraudulent activities such as SIM swapping (also known as SIMjacking ), business email compromise (BEC) , and money muling. From there, the money was then moved by money mules and invested into shell companies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In Q3 2021 , online stores were in second place by share of recorded phishing attacks (20.63%). In this research, we analyzed various types of threats: financial malware associated with major online shopping platforms as well as phishing pages and fake websites mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms. Methodology.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. Phishing: In 2020, the percentage of users hit by phishing declined slightly from 15.7% Financial phishing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

”The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud such as SIM swapping and business email compromise before laundering the money through a wide network of money mules and shell companies. .” The authorities have also frozen 118 bank accounts used by the organization.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This has resulted in no fewer than 194,905 accounts being compromised. If the user has reused their password, the accounts on those additional sites will also be vulnerable. This provides attackers with further inroads for all accounts tied to the address, and could end with a user losing access to many more of their online accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Last week the US agency has received several reports from taxpayers that received spam messages with “Automatic Income Tax Reminder” or “Electronic Tax Return Reminder” subjects. “The IRS this week detected this new scam as taxpayers began notifying phishing@irs.gov about unsolicited emails from IRS imposters.”

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On top of that, Angling Direct’s Twitter account was taken over, and it would seem that the hacker has at least some access to Angling Direct’s mail server, as they have claimed a local mail account as their own. Dutch electronics retail giant MediaMarkt has fallen victim to the Hive ransomware group. MediaMarkt.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive health information, particularly electronic health records (EHRs). 93H to protect the personal information of Massachusetts residents.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. And you can stop data breaches from spreading across multiple accounts that share passwords.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion from banks in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, Malta, and Africa by hacking the banks' computer networks and sending fraudulent Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) messages. The hackers employed false and fraudulent personas when they sent spear-phishing messages to victims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). From group_b to group_d time frame OilRig started a more sophisticated Spear Phishing (rif.T1193) campaigns within malicious attachments as their main threat delivery activity.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2022

The DOJ says RSOCKS initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers, though it expanded to targeting additional types of devices including conventional computers.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. It is thought to be the first computer virus. . years of probation.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

In a cybersecurity notice, TGH said it noticed unusual activity on its computer systems on May 31, 2023. According to TGH, the criminals did not access the hospital's electronic medical record system. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Watch out for fake vendors.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This incident demonstrates the possibility of attacks being conducted to cause physical harm, and various threat actors may be leveraging electronic or fully digital components. Media sources reported that explosives had been concealed within the devices. Why does it matter? The breach allowed the threat actor to download SMS message logs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. How did the contagion stop?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The use of phishing to take over user accounts as a first step to gain access to a campus for a ransomware attack has been making the headlines. Many campuses have reported after deploying MFA extensively across their campuses that account compromises due to phishing have reduced significantly.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The malware spreads through spear-phishing emails with a malicious Microsoft Office document as attachment. The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts.

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