Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

” A copy of the phishing message included in the PayPal.com invoice. While the phishing message attached to the invoice is somewhat awkwardly worded, there are many convincing aspects of this hybrid scam. Details of this scam were shared Wednesday with PayPal’s anti-abuse (phish@paypal.com) and media relations teams.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2025

Morphing Meerkat phishing kits exploit DNS MX records to deliver spoofed login pages, targeting over 100 brands. Threat actors are exploiting DNS techniques to enhance phishing attacks, using MX records to dynamically serve spoofed login pages. “We discovered cyber campaigns that used the phishing kits as early as January 2020.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. Bank customers. Bank customers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards. million total.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2025

DomainTools noted that the fake Bitdefender site also overlaps in timing and infrastructure with other phishing domains impersonating banks and IT services, including sites used to steal logins for Microsoft and the Royal Bank of Canada. 160 on port 4449. ” concludes the report that also provides Indicators of compromise.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 30, 2025

They access and exfiltrate sensitive information such as banking details, personal identification numbers, and confidential files. There are several circumstances that make this campaign hard to detect: The cybercriminals send phishing emails from compromised WordPress sites, so the domains themselves appear legitimate and not malicious.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

I had the chance to sit down with Eyal Benishti , IRONSCALES founder and CEO, to get a breakdown of how their new Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) technology utilizes a specialized LLM to reinforce anti-phishing mitigation services. For a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

Financial information, like your banking credentials and crypto wallets. Report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. com (phishing) convertitoremp3[.]it com (Phishing) convertix-api[.]xyz Other passwords and session tokens that could allow the scammers to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Email addresses.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For the most popular operating system in the world—which is Android and it isn’t even a contest —there’s a sneaky cyberthreat that can empty out a person’s bank accounts to fill the illicit coffers of cybercriminals. What are Android banking trojans? Take the SharkBot banking trojan, which Malwarebytes detects and stops.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

A new banking trojan dubbed maxtrilha (due to its encryption key) has been discovered in the last few days and targeting customers of European and South American banks. The new maxtrilha trojan is being disseminated and targeting several banks around the world. Figure 1: High-level diagram of maxtrilha banking trojan.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 23, 2021

People who lose out to internet fakery often feel guilty, or assume that they messed up somehow. Nobody wants to be laughed at via internet shenanigans. They had indeed received a bogus Royal Mail text, and entered their payment details into the phishing page. Phished by phone. Why can’t the bank do it?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

March Madness is here, and while fans are busy filling out brackets and making last-minute bets, cybercriminals are running their own full-court presstargeting unsuspecting fans with phishing scams, fake betting apps, and credential-harvesting schemes. This scenario follows the common phishing tactics: strike at personal interest.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. TARGETED PHISHING.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Note that for mobile banking malware, we retrospectively revised the 2023 numbers to provide more accurate statistics. We also changed the methodology for PC banking malware by removing obsolete families that no longer use Trojan banker functionality, hence the sharp drop in numbers against 2023. million detections compared to 5.84

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Researchers from threat intelligence Cyble have discovered threat actors abusing the Ngrok platform in a fresh phishing campaign. Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2025

The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and international calling, SIM-only plans and device deals. Compromised data includes full names, contact details, ID numbers, banking information, drivers license numbers, medical records and passport details.

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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. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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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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SecureList

MAY 3, 2021

Banking phishing: new version of an old scheme. In Q1 2021, new banking scams appeared alongside ones that are more traditional. Clients of several Dutch banks faced a phishing attack using QR codes. The fraudsters invited the victim to scan a QR code in an email, ostensibly to unblock mobile banking.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 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,” Abnormal’s Crane Hassold wrote. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. Internet and email fraud. Perhaps elderly folks who haven’t spent a lot of time online are easier to deceive. Ever present threats.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Hackers are again attacking Portuguese banking organizations via Android Trojan-Banker. The threat is not new, hackers are again attacking clients of Portuguese banking organizations via a specially crafted Android Trojan-Banker from phishing campaigns launched from Brazil. The victim accesses the phishing email or SMS.

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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. Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. None of these situations are hypotheticals.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc The message sent in the email template is related to problems with the victim’s bank account. on Twitter, and targeting Portuguese users.

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Webroot

MAY 31, 2024

What is Internet Safety Month? Each June, the online safety community observes Internet Safety Month as a time to reflect on our digital habits and ensure we’re taking the best precautions to stay safe online. 4 30% of phishing emails are opened by targeted users. 4 30% of phishing emails are opened by targeted users.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. That identifying information was then used to establish a bank account to receive stolen BEC/EAC funds and then transferred to a cryptocurrency account.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

7 Tips to Follow for Safer Internet Day IdentityIQ The 20 th annual Safer Internet Day is taking place on Feb. Safer Internet Day is a campaign that aims to educate the public on internet safety and encourage everyone to take part in creating a safer internet. Why is Safer Internet Day Important?

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 25, 2025

Phishing is a great example of this, with it evolving from simple email scams to more malicious and carefully thought-out attacks. As more people shift to online financial platforms or cryptocurrencies, digital wallets have become a common target for phishing scams.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2022

Because of Covid-19 lockdowns, the banking world across the globe has switched to the online banking plan. For all the basic needs, people need not visit the bank premises on a physical note. As they can opt for online banking services, to quench all their account needs.

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