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Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers

Malwarebytes

We identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft’s search engine. While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share , crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already.

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Zanubis in motion: Tracing the active evolution of the Android banking malware

SecureList

Introduction Zanubis is a banking Trojan for Android that emerged in mid-2022. Since its inception, it has targeted banks and financial entities in Peru, before expanding its objectives to virtual cards and crypto wallets. The malware operated as an overlay-based banking Trojan that abused Android’s accessibility service.

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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

In the United States, when federal, state or local law enforcement agencies wish to obtain information about an account at a technology provider — such as the account’s email address, or what Internet addresses a specific cell phone account has used in the past — they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena.

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Threats in space (or rather, on Earth): internet-exposed GNSS receivers

SecureList

These systems are used for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) by a wide range of industries: agriculture, finance, transportation, mobile communications, banking and others. Internet-exposed GNSS receivers and attacks on them In 2023, at least two black hat groups conducted multiple attacks against GNSS receivers.

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Social Engineering: Back to the Basics

Security Through Education

When I first heard of social engineering, about 6 years ago, I couldnt define it clearly and concisely if you had offered me millions of dollars. ’ Lets re-visit what social engineering really means, how people use it, and how you can start protecting yourself from it. Either way, lets refresh and learn together!

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Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

Schneier on Security

It’s a folk belief, all over the Internet but with no actual research behind it—like the five-second rule when you drop food on the floor. It presumes people have the cognitive tools to understand the myriad potential attacks and figure out which one of the thousands of Internet actions they take is harmful.

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Columbus Ransomware Attack Exposes 500,000+ Residents’ Data: How to Stay Safe

eSecurity Planet

This data reportedly includes everything from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and bank account details. Despite efforts by Columbus officials to thwart the attack by disconnecting the city’s systems from the internet, it became evident later that substantial data had been stolen and circulated on the dark web.