Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

German police arrested one individual suspected of having stolen €4 million from users via large-scale phishing campaigns. Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected.

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Phishing Banking DDOS Accountability 86

Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

We observed an increased number of phishing attacks in the Ukrainian cyberspace in February, just before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The post Phishing Attacks In Ukraine | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 9, 2022

Can you name the top cybersecurity risks for banking and investment? Most would probably list cyber attacks like phishing, credential theft, DDoS, and maybe ransomware. The post Five Client-Side Web App Risks Banking & Investment Should Know appeared first on Feroot. You know the […]. You know the […].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

Experts warn of a new malware campaign using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure to spread the remote access trojan BitRAT. Qualys experts spotted a new malware campaign spreading a remote access trojan called BitRAT using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure in phishing messages. Keylogging.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 The contact phone trick was heavily used both in email messages and on phishing pages. Interestingly, the cybercriminals did not limit their threats to DDoS.

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Phishing Malware Scams Accountability 139

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

February 25 – Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing. The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. February 19 – White House and UK Gov attribute DDoS attacks on Ukraine to Russia’s GRU. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Blocks phishing websites. Let’s say someone at your company gets an email from their “bank” asking them to update their password. . You might recognize this as one example of phishing , an attack where cybercriminals trick potential victims into sharing sensitive information or giving the perpetrator privileged access to a network.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians. that are easier for computers to manage.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

Digging further into the skimmer's infrastructure on Russian-based hosting provider DDoS-Guard, we came across a digital crime haven for cryptocurrency scams, Bitcoin mixers, malware distribution sites and much more. DDoS-Guard hosting. Figure 10: VirusTotal graph showing connections to DDos-Guard. asn_starts_with=DDOS-GUARD.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Justice as a top figure in the JabberZeus Crew , a small but potent cybercriminal collective from Ukraine and Russia that attacked victim companies with a powerful, custom-made version of the Zeus banking trojan. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declined to comment for this story. Tank, a.k.a. Our client — XYZ Corp. —

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

Financial institutions face a range of cybersecurity threats, including phishing attacks, malware, ransomware, and denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks. Top Cybersecurity threats faced by banks are: • Malware- Malware, or malicious software, is any program or file that is intentionally harmful to a computer, network or server.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

Twilio hackers also breached the food delivery firm DoorDash Unprecedented cyber attack hit State Infrastructure of Montenegro Threat actor abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat driver to disable antivirus Critical flaw impacts Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Iran-linked Mercury APT exploited Log4Shell in SysAid Apps for initial access GoldDragon (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

FBI and CISA published a new advisory on AvosLocker ransomware More than 17,000 WordPress websites infected with the Balada Injector in September Ransomlooker, a new tool to track and analyze ransomware groups’ activities Apple releases iOS 16 update to fix CVE-2023-42824 on older devices Phishing, the campaigns that are targeting Italy A new (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

. “Targets have included organizations in the Israeli energy and defense sectors and entities loyal to Fatah, the dominant Palestinian political faction in the West Bank, which were historically targets of Hamas cyberattacks.” The threat actors employed multiple backdoors and hosted their C2 infrastructure on Google Drive.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 354 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Banking Spyware Surveillance Ransomware 79

Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2022

Critical flaw in Netwrix Auditor application allows arbitrary code execution CISA urges to fix multiple critical flaws in Juniper Networks products Threat actors exploit a flaw in Digium Phone Software to target VoIP servers Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot Experts warn of attacks on sites using (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

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Banking Small Business Data breaches Firmware 65

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It is important to highlight that Africa has the fastest-growing telephone and Internet networks in the world, and it as the widest use of mobile banking services. This threat seeks to target and take advantage of victims’ fears, insecurities, and vulnerabilities through phishing, mass mailing and social engineering.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

More Phishing Attacks. Phishing may seem like an ordinary part of online life, but it could also be the initial volley in a major cyberattack. Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). It may look just like the real thing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot Banking Trojan spreads through fake AV apps on Google Play China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations A Mirai-based botnet is exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability?

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DDOS Data breaches Marketing Manufacturing 66

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Threat actors have also set a new record in DDoS attack power: 2.3 The quick growth applies to both textual data (bank card numbers, expiration dates, holder names, addresses, CVVs) and dumps (magnetic stripe data). Over the review period, the total price of all the bank card dumps offered for sale amounted to $1.5

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Banking Ransomware Phishing Marketing 125

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data from the Brazilian Federation of Banks registered a considerable increase in crime (such as explosions at bank branches to steal money) and cybercrime (increased phishing and social-engineering attacks) against banking customers and banking infrastructure. If not ransomware, then DDoS or possibly both.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

LockBit ransomware group claims to have hacked Bridgestone Americas Attackers use website contact forms to spread BazarLoader malware Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram Ubisoft suffered a cyber security incident that caused a temporary disruption Anonymous hacked Roskomnadzor agency revealing Russian disinformation Open (..)

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 17, 2023

DDoS, SQL injections, supply chain attacks, DNS tunneling – all pervasive attacks that can arrive on your doorstep anytime. Particular attacks include: Phishing and spear phishing attacks , in which criminals purport to be a trusted source and solicit information from their target.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

ZeuS was primarily created to be a financial or banking Trojan, otherwise known as crimeware. ZeuS affiliates focused their efforts away from corporations and large banks, going after small- to medium-sized organizations, including towns and churches, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Banking Malware Encryption Accountability 122

Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

DDoS attacks from rivals are common, so several domains working together keeps things ticking over. You run the risk of being targeted for spear phishing, or having your personal information used for fraudulent applications. SSNDOB attempted to ward off a permanent shut down by spreading the data across four different URLs.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. The phishing kit market.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

SC Magazine noted Verizon’s finding that DDoS attacks are getting worse. Finance fraud and phishing scams increase in Ireland, too Financial fraud and scams in Ireland have risen by 560 per cent in three years. Phishing frauds involving email, text messages and video were up by 417 per cent in the same time period.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1973 – Embezzlement — A teller at a local New York bank uses a computer to embezzle over $2 million dollars. 2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! Most users are unaffected.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

DDoS Attacks. DDoS attacks are used to flood a site with illegitimate and automated traffic in order to slow the site’s load time or crash the site entirely, taking it offline for visitors. It’s no wonder, then, that the average organization experiences eight DDoS attacks per day. Redirects.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). Last year, we forecasted phishing would continue to remain a prevailing method of attack , as unsuspecting individuals and businesses would fall victim to tailored assaults.

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Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2020

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

On a wider scale, in February 2021 the REvil ransomware group announced that they had added two stages to their double extortion scheme – DDoS attacks and phone calls to the victim’s business partners and the media. We recommend running a full compromise assessment any time there are signs of intrusion.

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