Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. In a nutshell, it’s an extensive form of information theft, the likes of which could result in someone’s identity being fully stolen and their financial and other online accounts being taken over. Source: Akamai).

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2023

A massive social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server to steal their login credentials. ESET researchers uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server since April 2023. ” states the report published by ESET.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What is Phishing? One of the most common techniques used to exploit web users is the phishing scam. This article will cover what phishing is, cybercriminals’ different approaches, and how to prevent yourself from becoming a victim. What is Phishing? How Does Phishing Work? Spear Phishing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. Trezor WARNING: Elaborate Phishing attack. Trazor also took the phishing domain used by threat actors offline and launched an investigation to determine how many users have been impacted.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Armorblox discovered a new phishing campaign aimed at American Express customers. Armorblox researchers uncovered a new phishing campaign that is targeting American Express customers. The subject of the emails reads “Important Notification About Your Account” in an attempt to urge recipients to open it.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

Vishing, also known as voice phishing, is a type of cyberattack wherein malicious actors use phone calls in an attempt to collect confidential information from their targets.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 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,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. Open our letter at your email. ” Image: Sophos.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to hit more than 10,000 organizations. In AiTM phishing, threat actors set up a proxy server between a target user and the website the user wishes to visit, which is the phishing site under the control of the attackers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attack. Then they used the access to download a set of MFA SMS message logs belonging to customers’ Duo accounts. date and time of the message, type of message, etc.).”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 23, 2022

Europol has coordinated a joint operation to arrest members of a cybercrime gang and effectively dismantle their campaigns that netted million in Euros. The group was involved in fraud, money laundering, phishing, and scams. Money mules then used these credentials to cash out millions in Euros from victim accounts.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 7, 2021

The recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations report shows that global cybercrime is on the rise. Cybercrime Report Data. The report showed that phishing pumped up its frequency to being present in 36% of breaches, up from 25% last year. billion malicious login attempts last year.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The phishing messages use mortgage payments as a lure, they have the subject “Re: Payoff Request.”. The phishing message was sent from a legitimate individual’s compromised email account. The phishing pages were hosted on the “greenleafproperties[.]co[.]uk” SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

BEC attacks start because an actor steals information, then uses social engineering techniques to get the victim to transfer funds into a false account. Before the victim knows it, they have been conned into transferring their entire life's savings or some of their business's budget into a malicious hacker's bank account.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

A phishing campaign that Microsoft security researchers have been tracking for about a year highlights not only the ongoing success of social engineering efforts by hackers to compromise systems, but also the extent to which the bad actors will go to cover their tracks while stealing user credentials. Invoice-Themed Lures.

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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 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. What is the Most Common Form of Phishing?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Sometimes, it’s used even if an attack being discussed is a basic phish, or maybe some very generic malware. A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. Said funds would then be laundered across a variety of bank accounts “controlled by the defendant and others”.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The scam began with the employee receiving a phishing message purportedly from the company's chief financial officer requesting an urgent confidential transaction. Over multiple transactions, the criminals accumulated $25 million transferred to Hong Kong accounts before the company discovered and reported the fraud.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Known ransomware attacks July 2022 – December 2023 Big Game ransomware is just one part of a thriving and highly organized cybercrime business—a multi-billion-dollar mirror to the legitimate economy it feeds off. And like broader, law-abiding “Business” at large, cybercrime has settled on a collection of tools that work.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad. A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home.

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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. In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done. Account Takeover Prevention.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Phishing returned as the second most utilized vector , representing 22 percent of intrusions as compared to 12 percent in 2021.” “Of Furthermore, these adversaries demonstrated a willingness to get personal with their targets, bullying and threatening many of them. ”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. For cybercriminals that lacked the technical knowledge or means, the Fraud Family also offered to host the phishing sites and backend panels. 2FA bypass.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Is it just us, or is phishing everywhere right now? Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. An emotional phish . A message to you.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Crooks increasingly often use legitimate services such as Google Forms and Telegram to obtain user data stolen on phishing websites. Such platforms are distributed under the cybercrime-as-a-service model, which subsequently leads to more groups conducting attacks. Phishing kits are usually sold on underground forums on the darknet.

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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 detections compared to 5.04

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their activities focused on using AI for reconnaissance, social engineering, scripting, and evading detection. Specifically, it said: "Charcoal Typhoon used our services to research various companies and cybersecurity tools, debug code and generate scripts, and create content likely for use in phishing campaigns."

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SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

Human error accounts for 95% of all data breaches. This means that most cyberattacks could be prevented by following simple cybersecurity best practices, such as using strong passwords, updating software, and avoiding phishing emails. Phishing emails are more common than you know. Cybercrime is a highly profitable business.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

These criminals 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.". Business Email Compromise 2020.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

companies as a primary target of a new phishing scheme. Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The company could not be certain, however, if the V4 phishing kit was involved.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear. What people will eventually come to realize, the sooner the better, is that we will need to flatten the X factor represented by cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. What You Can Do. Update your software.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

The aim behind the said social engineering attack is simple, one to trap employees with fake job offers and second to lure customers in signing up the page and then steal their currency. All these days, they were busy launching phishing emails on corporate networks.

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