Graham Cluley

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Malicious hackers are taking advantage of people searching the internet for free access to ChatGPT in order to direct them to malware and phishing sites. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Urlscan also found this phishing scam from Jan.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

Malvertising Enters a New Age While Google grapples with the potential threat that ChatGPT poses to its advertising business, cybercriminals are taking advantage of Google Ads to ramp up their phishing attacks on unsuspecting victims. The post Defeating Malvertising-Based Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. The police also searched the house of another suspect, an 18 year old who was not arrested. If you are interested in more details about the phishing methods, their blog is well worth the read.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Year after year, phishing tops the list of the leading causes of data breaches. Security professionals have been sounding the alarm about phishing for many, many years — and companies are starting to take notice. Many organizations even test their workers by sending them dummy phishing emails to see who falls for them.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2023

However, malvertising is also a great vehicle for phishing attacks which we usually see more often via spam emails. Threat actors continue to abuse and impersonate brands, posing as verified advertisers whose only purpose is to smuggle rogue ads via popular search engines.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. This blog post aims to share the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs) so defenders can take action.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In February 2023, Microsoft disclosed its new AI-assisted search engine, Bing Chat, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. Even though Google has been dominating the search industry for years, this event was significant enough to generate not only interest but also plant the seed for a possible change in the balance in the future.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

After the initial delay, the malicious app opens phishing sites in Chrome. The content of the phishing sites varies—some are harmless sites used simply to produce pay-per-click, and others are more dangerous phishing sites that attempt to trick unsuspecting users. Deeper analysis using LogCat. ChromeTabbedActivity t11780}.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Another interesting bug McCarthy pointed to is CVE-2024-29063 , which involves hard-coded credentials in Azure’s search backend infrastructure that could be gleaned by taking advantage of Azure AI search. “Microsoft has updated their backend and notified any customers who have been affected by the credential leakage.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A search in Google for a string of text from that script turns up a December 2023 blog post from cryptocurrency security firm SlowMist about phishing attacks on Telegram from North Korean state-sponsored hackers. “When the project team clicks the link, they encounter a region access restriction,” SlowMist wrote.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For the past week, upon searching for ‘GIMP’ on Google, visitors would be shown an ad for ‘GIMP.org,’ the official website of the graphics editor. This is where the things would take a turn for the worse: the ad appeared legitimate but clicking it resulted in visitors landing on a lookalike phishing website.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

The flaw is related to the way User Interface on UC Browser and UC Browser Mini handles a built-in feature designed to improve users Google search experience. q=www.facebook.com” reads the blog post published by the expert. ” With this trick, vulnerable browsers use as a search query “www.facebook.com.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme?

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Graham Cluley

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Law enforcement agents across the country took part in 16 searches that not only seized electronic equipment and computer databases, four expensive vehicles, and $80,000 Euros but also confiscated a baseball bat, a katana, and two firearms. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

That email would have been a reply to one you originally sent to me that would have sounded something like this: Hi, I came across your blog on [thing] and I must admit, it was really nicely written. I also have an article on [thing] and I think it would be a great addition to your blog. On a popular blog. Just the title.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2023

Cyber-criminals continue to impersonate brands via well-crafted phishing websites. We previously covered attacks on both consumers and businesses via online searches for popular brands leading to scams or malware. In this blog post, we investigate a malicious ad on Microsoft Bing for LooksRare, an NFT marketplace.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Criminals who buy the toolkit have been distributing it mostly via cracked software downloads but are also impersonating legitimate websites and using ads on search engines such as Google to lure victims in. In this blog post, we will provide details on one campaign targeting TradingView, a popular platform and app to track financial markets.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this blog post, we will focus on the dangers of looking for assistance online and the numerous malicious ads trying to reel you in. Calling the IRS People will often go on Google to search for a phone or contact number for a business they are trying to get in touch with. However, please beware that they are highly suspicious.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Can you spot the subtle difference in the domain name compared to the search engine? Can you tell which one of these is the real Google blog site? Poor Googie!

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Hackenproof, the Estonian cybersecurity company that found the data trove online, announced their discovery on their blog. The data was found on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that allows users to look up and access “power plants, Smart TVs, [and] refrigerators.” Side note: always change the default password on your devices.).

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

phishing scam on its Messenger service that had been doing the rounds since at least 2017. Upon further examination, it turned out that thousands of these phishing links had been distributed, through a devious network sprawling across the back channels of the social media platform. To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Web search is about to embark on a new journey thanks to artificial intelligence technology that online giants such as Microsoft and Google are experimenting with. Yet, there is a problem when it comes to malicious ads displayed by search engines that AI likely won't be able to fix.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since the malware's obfuscation and encryption features have been recently documented by other researchers, we will focus on two of its web delivery methods, namely the use of malicious ads and search engine poisoning. The following search result appeared on Google: The domain advancedscanner[.]link

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 28, 2022

They’re actually just trying to scare users into falling for phishing attempts. How do scammers go phishing? These pages are also easy to stumble upon while searching for content in Facebook itself – this is how a relative first brought it to my attention. Landing on the phish. Has it merged with another page?

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we start a hopefully better 2021, we are taking a look back at the most searched and visited topics on the IdentityIQ blog during 2020. The top-10 most popular blogs on the IdentityIQ website last year were: Should You Pay Your Credit Card Statement Balance or Current Balance? What is Phishing? Credit Card Fraud v.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nitrogen is the name given to a campaign and associated malware that have been distributed via malicious search ads. In this blog post, we look at a recent Nitrogen campaign and specifically at how the initial payload is being served onto victims. Many businesses are not adequately protected when it comes to malicious ads.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The attack took place in October 2022, threat actors sent phishing emails that contained links to a password-protected file hosted in Drive. The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2021

Apple’s search for child abuse imagery raises serious privacy questions. Other cybersecurity news: New phishing attack “ sneakier than usual ” (Source: ZDNet) Can the public cloud become confidential ? Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints. Should you be worried?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Industrial sector hit by a surgical spear-phishing campaign aimed at installing legitimate remote administration software on victims’ machines. Attackers personalized the content of each phishing email reflecting the activity of the target organization and the type of work performed by the employee to whom the email is sent.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employees are the first line of defense against cybercrime and should understand how to recognize phishing emails and what to do if they suspect them. One of the best ways to increase employee security awareness is to provide frequent training and communication about the risks of phishing and other cyberattacks.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As the holiday season draws near, shoppers are eagerly searching for gifts online. Antivirus is a software program that is specifically designed to search, prevent, detect and remove software viruses before they have a chance to wreak havoc on your devices. Our real-time anti-phishing also blocks bad sites. What is antivirus?

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. Although Rhadamanthys was using phishing and spam initially as the infection vector, the most recent method is malvertising.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

DLL search order hijacking method. One of the two files that are initially dropped uses the DLL search order hijacking technique to gain persistence. They all use the same search order to find a DLL. For a much more detailed analysis of the decrypted backdoor we advise reading the full Microsoft blog. Stay safe, everyone!

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 20, 2022

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. We started our search with any recent submissions that made contact with an IP address belonging to AS29182. com 185.253.33.191 March 25, 2022 search[.]global-search[.]net global-search[.]net One of the hostnames from our previous blog on the anti-vm skimmer, con[.]digital-speed[.]net,

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