SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

and Dutch law enforcement agencies have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers in an effort to disrupt a Pakistan-based network of online marketplaces selling phishing and fraud-enabling tools. Organizations should enforce least privilege access and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all accounts that have it available.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Social media users’ delight at receiving notification that their accounts have qualified for Verification (that is, receiving the often-coveted “blue check mark” that appears on the social media profiles of public figures) has become the latest target of criminal exploitation.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cyber cops in Ukraine carried out an arrest and several raids last week in connection with the author of a U-Admin , a software package used to administer what’s being called “one of the world’s largest phishing services.” The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Thieves are combining SMS-based phishing attacks with new “cardless” ATMs to rapidly convert phished bank account credentials into cash. The text messages contained a link to unlock their accounts and led customers to a Web site that mimicked the legitimate Fifth Third site. Image: Mastercard.us.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2025

PayPal scammers are using an old Docusign trick to enhance the trustworthiness of their phishing emails. The Docusign Application Programming Interface (API) allows customers to send emails that come from genuine Docusign accounts, and they can use templates to impersonate reputable companies. It doesnt even exist. What can I do?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2025

Buchanan was arrested in Spain last year on a warrant from the FBI, which wanted him in connection with a series of SMS-based phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that led to intrusions at Twilio, LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, and many other tech firms. A Scattered Spider/0Ktapus SMS phishing lure sent to Twilio employees in 2022.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 22, 2025

Cybercriminals are abusing Googles infrastructure, creating emails that appear to come from Google in order to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials. Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. Instead create an account on the service itself.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 8, 2025

Brand impersonation: from Google ad to phishing page Accounting and tax preparation software has traditionally been a common lure for scammers, particularly those related to online support operating out of large call centres in India and surrounding areas. Malicious QuickBooks domains quicckboocks-accounting[.]com

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. The file included in this phishing scam uses what’s known as a “right-to-left override” or RLO character.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Recently weve been seeing quite a few phishing campaigns using QR codes in email attachments. The lure and the targets are varied, but the use of a QR code to get someone to visit the phishing site is fast becoming a preferred method for cybercriminals. DocuSign , Adobe), which increases the perceived legitimacy of the phish.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 27, 2025

They often arrive via phishing emails, malicious websites, or bundled with cracked software. Since one infected system can leak multiple credentials tied to different accounts and services, the number of victims is likely far smaller than the number of exposed credentials but still alarmingly high.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature. Urlscan also found this phishing scam from Jan.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

And third, using flawed mental shortcuts, like believing PDFs to be safer than Microsoft Word documents, or that mobile devices are safer than computers for opening suspicious emails. Current phishing attacks have evolved from those older Nigerian scams filled with grammar mistakes and typos. This is all hard.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 8, 2020

A new attack discovered by Abnormal Security aims to steal account credentials from people who use the online document signing platform.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2025

After the operation, the authorities alerted over 216,000 victims to help them quickly secure their accounts and prevent further unauthorized access. ” As part of Operation Secure, Vietnamese police arrested 18 suspects and seized cash, SIMs, and documents tied to a scheme selling corporate accounts. .”

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals. .

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. PST on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

Squarespace bought all assets of Google Domains a year ago, but many customers still haven’t set up their new accounts. Experts say malicious hackers learned they could commandeer any migrated Squarespace accounts that hadn’t yet been registered, merely by supplying an email address tied to an existing domain.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Top MITRE Technique: Spearphishing The construction sector is no stranger to phishing attacks, which topped the list of initial access techniques between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. Phishing is favored by threat actors for its simplicity and effectiveness.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The initial attack vector is a phishing email containing a link to a malicious application disguised as a link to a PDF document relating to a cryptocurrency topic such as “Hidden Risk Behind New Surge of Bitcoin Price”, “Altcoin Season 2.0-The The attackers exploit a unique, novel persistence method via the zshenv configuration file.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. He said anyone who knew the URL for a valid document at the Web site could view other documents just by modifying a single digit in the link.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

What are phishing kits? One of the most common tricks scammers use in phishing attacks is to create a fake official page of a famous brand. Even phishing page domain name can often look like the real web address of a certain brand, as cybercriminals include the name of the company or service they are posing as in the URL.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, brackets create opportunities for a wide array of phishing and hacking campaigns, particularly in workplaces where a lot of brackets are distributed. A single compromised account is usually the point of entry for hacking campaigns. Use online or cloud-based office software for non-sensitive documents.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

million through the “extortion of international clients in the name of up-selling, the sale of fake/fabricated USPTO certificates, and the maintaining of phishing websites.” com were paid for by the same account advertising a number of scam websites selling logo and web design services. ” Reached via LinkedIn, Mr. .

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

The reason lame domains are problematic is that a number of Web hosting and DNS providers allow users to claim control over a domain without accessing the true owner’s account at their DNS provider or registrar. Other attacks have used hijacked domains in targeted phishing attacks by creating lookalike subdomains. .”

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2024

What made this market attractive for cybercriminals was that they could buy data sorted by region and account balance with advanced filtering options. A network of fake online shops set up to phish for payment information provided one of the sources of stolen data.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

We discovered a new phishing kit targeting payroll and payment platforms that aims to not only steal victims’ credentials but also to commit wire fraud. Clicking on the ad sent employees and employers to a phishing website impersonating Deel. Phishing portal and 2FA The first phishing domain we saw was login-deel[.]app

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This social engineering scheme has been amplified by targeted phishing, smishing, and vishing activities, with a noticeable increase around the winter holidays. A month earlier, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Police warned citizens not to share their confidential information, including their account, card details or online banking credentials.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

From AI-generated voices to realistic websites and stolen accounts, scams today are slick, fast, and global. Scammers use fake personas often posing as military personnel or celebrities e.g., a French woman recently lost 700,000 to scammers pretending to be Brad Pitt using AI-generated photos and fake documents ( BBC ).

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time. Phishing site with chat support.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With cyberattacks on operating systems, applications, and networks becoming more sophisticated, the tech giant formulated a strategy to enhance the protection of Windows systems, focusing strongly on phishing attacks. Users will be given standard user accounts by default.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link. ” Image: SlowMist.

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