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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Krebs on Security

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. million in an elaborate voice phishing attack. The phishing domain used to steal roughly $4.7 Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo. “ Annie.”

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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. One particularly interesting detail is how a phishing website created barely two weeks ago is already indexed and displayed before the official one. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already.

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Krebs on Security

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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Microsoft Warns: Midnight Blizzard’s Ongoing Spear-Phishing Campaign with RDP Files

Heimadal Security

An ongoing spear-phishing campaign is affecting a variety of companies, including governmental agencies. According to Microsoft, the Russian APT group Midnight Blizzard (also known as APT29, UNC2452, and Cozy Bear) is behind the attacks.

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GUEST ESSAY: Advanced tools, tactics required to defend latest attack variant — ‘DeepSea phishing’

The Last Watchdog

Phishing itself is not a new or a particularly complicated threat. But the emergence of advanced phishing techniques – “DeepSea Phishing” – poses an entirely new challenge for enterprises. The financial impact of phishing attacks quadrupled over the past six years, with the average cost for U.S. companies rising to $14.8

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 Blog Series | Recognizing and Reporting Phishing

NSTIC

During this week’s blog series, we sat down with two of our NIST experts from the Visualization and Usability Group at NIST — Shanée Dawkins and Jody Jacobs — who discussed the importance of recognizing and reporting phishing. This week’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is ‘recognize and report phishing.’

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Vulnerability Recap 10/28/24 – Phishing, DoS, RCE & a Zero-Day

eSecurity Planet

A July Microsoft SharePoint issue has been added to the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency’s catalog of known exploitable vulnerabilities. We’ll also look at increased phishing attacks, a couple of different Cisco flaws, and a Fortinet vulnerability that took some time to get its own CVE.

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