Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

The attacker can also use the compromised accounts to carry out lateral phishing attacks and further infiltrate the target organizations TA473 targeted US elected officials and staffers since at least February 2023. The threat actors created bespoke JavaScript payloads designed for each government targets’ webmail portal.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The respected technology blog TechRadar has even referred to 2021 as “the year of the Chromebook.”. Even strong security can’t prevent an account from being hacked if account credentials are stolen in a phishing attack, one of the most common causes of identity theft. Web-borne malware remains widespread.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Malwarebytes

JULY 11, 2022

TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores, says FCC Google to delete location data of trips to abortion clinics IconBurst software supply chain attack offers malicious versions of NPM packages Discord Shame channel goes phishing Verified Twitter accounts phished via hate speech warnings Apple Lockdown (..)

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This blog will discuss what you can do if you accidentally open a spam email on your smartphone. The trojan horse can be hidden in software or attachments that, if downloaded, install different spyware and viruses on your device. This spyware and viruses can cause many problems on your device and compromise personal details.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Patch them now!

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

The additional result of these hacks include: •51% had their information phished •43% had credit card information stolen •35% had their username and password stolen •17% had their identity stolen or cloned Additionally, the study found that a large majority of Americans (75%) harbor genuine concerns about visiting websites that do not look secure.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In this blog, techniques used by these malware families will be explored. In this blog, we will be focusing on 3 malware families called Krachulka, Lokorrito, and Zumanek. As a spyware, it gathers classified information from infected systems without the consent of the user and sends gathered information to remote threat actors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

The threat landscape is constantly updated through new malware and spyware, advanced phishing methods, and new social engineering techniques. In addition, the likelihood of the data being used for phishing and social engineering increases. . Changes in the number of ransomware blog posts in 2021–2022, worldwide ( download ).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Security researchers at F-Secure have recently uncovered a small spam campaign aimed at delivering spyware to Mac users that use Exodus wallet. The campaign leverages Exodus-themed phishing messages using an attachment named “Exodus-MacOS-1.64.1-update.zip.” ” states the blog post published by F-Secure.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A look at the nature and effects of legal, advanced spyware on application security. Pegasus is an advanced spyware that exploits vulnerable mobile apps to gain a foothold on iPhone and Android devices. The spyware allows governments to crack citizen’s mobile devices, track them, and observe their communications.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Our answer is nearly always the same: (spear) phishing. In this blog post, we provide excerpts from these reports. Introduction. We are often asked how targets are infected with malware. But that’s it — most of the time, anyway. But that’s it — most of the time, anyway. BlackBasta: a new propagation method.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

It seems phishing for users’ passwords to the sites used to buy and sell NFTs is the main method of compromise. Once a key is stolen—either by phishing, a keylogger or some other means—there’s very little in terms of a realistic prospect of getting it back. He’s apparently not alone in this experience.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we provide you with ten actionable ways to safeguard your digital identity, focusing specifically on how to prevent compromised credentials. Malware : Malicious software, such as viruses or spyware, can infect your devices and be used to steal your credentials. How Can Your Credentials Become Compromised?

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we provide you with ten actionable ways to safeguard your digital identity, focusing specifically on how to prevent compromised credentials. Malware : Malicious software, such as viruses or spyware, can infect your devices and be used to steal your credentials. How Can Your Credentials Become Compromised?

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In the latest campaign uncovered by Kaspersky, the APT group, used a modular framework dubbed CloudWizard that supports spyware capabilities, including taking screenshots, microphone recording, harvesting Gmail inboxes, and keylogging. The archive contained two files, a decoy document (i.e.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2021. That link would attempt to install spyware called Flubot, malware designed to steal online banking data from Andriod devices. . Think Before You LinkedIn! Stay safe and secure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Swedish Government grants police the use of spyware against violent crime suspects. Spear-phishing attacks target United Nations and NGOs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. 5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them? App tainted with Ahmyst Open-source spyware appeared on Google Play Store twice. Once again thank you!

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A blog post published earlier this year posed the question "Is Grammarly a keylogger?" There's a tongue-in-cheek saying about a common piece of advice for avoiding phishing attacks: you can't tell the user to stop clicking things on the thing-clicking machine. The answer has always been, "no." How do I protect myself from keyloggers?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. You may be most familiar with computer malware such as Trojan viruses and spyware, which can be used to retrieve sensitive data from a computer or even take control of the system.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The victims are targeted with spear-phishing emails that trick them into mounting a malicious ISO file and double-clicking an LNK, which starts the infection chain. In June, we identified a previously unknown Android spyware app that targets Persian-speaking individuals. í religion that are banned in Iran.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

million redirects to phishing pages. Third place was taken by the Noon spyware (5.19%), whose 32-bit relatives (1.71%) moved down to ninth. Statistics: phishing. In Q3, the Anti-Phishing system blocked 46,340,156 attempts to open phishing links. Geography of phishing attacks. Top-level domains.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. While it’s not clear how the threat actor tricked the victims into executing the Trojanized app, we suspect they sent a spear-phishing email or contacted them via social media. Other malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The level of sophistication used by attackers to mimic the original domains varied greatly, ranging from low quality, obvious phishing pages to more refined efforts mimicking animations and logos. pro is flagged as a phishing domain by multiple security providers. Among these pages, a notable example was the qatar2022[.]pro

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. It is not unusual to have your system or network infected with malware, such as spyware, that often lingers secretly with no apparent symptoms. Don’t worry though. Common types. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2019

Malware authors created well-designed fake web pages, replicating all the graphics of the game misleading the user to download the app, as shown in the following image: Figure 1:fake/phishing Apex Legends web page. The third sample is an attempt to hijack the user towards a phishing site. An example is “hxxps://apexhack[.]site/”,

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

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Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Project Zero wrote about one of these cases in November 2022 in their “Mind the Gap” blog post. Anyone who visits that site is then exploited and delivered the final payload (usually spyware). At the end of 2021, Citizen Lab captured a 0-click exploit targeting iMessage, CVE-2023-30860, used by NSO in their Pegasus spyware.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

push users into installing a browser hijacker known as mysearchflow.com, which is blocked as Spyware/Adware by Webroot. The post We explored the dangers of pirated sport streams so you don’t have to appeared first on Webroot Blog. This one localised to appear to German IP addresses. Browser Hijacker. Links on jackstream.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 6, 2021

Among phishing schemes to emerge recently is one targeting university students with promises of tax refunds. companies that offer online shopping, eSentire said this time it caught attackers spear phishing a professional working in the health care technology industry. “It Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).

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