Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft warns of large-scale phishing attacks orchestrated with an open-source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit available in the cybercrime ecosystem Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kits are becoming an essential technology in the cybercrime ecosystem that is used by multiple threat actors to launch phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Adaptive phishing campaigns are emerging as an increasingly sophisticated threat in the cybersecurity landscape. The phenomenon This phenomenon represents an evolution of traditional phishing tactics, as attackers seek to overcome defenses using more personalized and targeted approaches.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Data allegedly stolen from the American gaming giant Activision in December security breach were leaked on a cybercrime forum. A threat actor leaked on the Breached hacking forum the data allegedly stolen from the gaming giant Activision in December 2022. The Threat Actors successfully phished a privileged user on the network.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

The Blackbasta extortion group claims to have hacked Atlas, one of the largest national distributors of fuel in the United States. The gang published a series of documents as proof of the hack, including people’s ID cards, data sheets, payroll payment requesters and a picture of the folder exfiltrated from the victim’s systems.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Recommendations provided in the report include installing updates promptly, using phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), securing remote access software, making backups, and applying mitigations from the #StopRansomware Guide.

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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

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). To nominate, please visit:?.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This post analyzed the numerous phishing campaigns targeting users and organizations in Italy. Phishing is a ploy to trick users into revealing personal or financial information through an e-mail, Web site, and even through instant messaging. Phishing can also be used as a precursor attack to drop malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Daixin Team group claims to have hacked the North Texas Municipal Water District (US) and threatened to leak the stolen data. In October 2022, CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2022

TA558 cybercrime group is behind a malware campaign targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America. Researchers from Proofpoint are monitoring a malware campaign conducted by a cybercrime group, tracked as TA558, that is targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Threat actors exploited an open redirection vulnerability in the job search platform Indeed to carry out phishing attacks. Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Menlo Security reported that threat actors exploited an open redirection vulnerability in the job search platform Indeed in phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks on state organizations of Ukraine using the topic “Azovstal” and Cobalt Strike Beacon. The analysis of encryption techniques employed in the attack allowed the government experts to associate the campaign with the cybercrime group Trickbot. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Researchers warn of a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit, called Caffeine, which is being used by cybercriminals. In March 2022, Mandiant researchers discovered threat actors using a shared Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Caffeine. ” reads the report published by Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

The alleged perpetrator, who turned out to be a citizen of Morocco, was arrested in May by the Moroccan police based on the data about his cybercrimes that was provided by Group-IB. Almost each of the scripts contained in the phishing kit had its creator’s nickname, Dr HeX, and contact email address.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. 1 – Example of Phishing Page Delivered by Azure Front Door (AFD).

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to hit more than 10,000 organizations. In AiTM phishing, threat actors set up a proxy server between a target user and the website the user wishes to visit, which is the phishing site under the control of the attackers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The attackers used methods to deliver the malware, including phishing websites masquerading as legitimate ones, YouTube videos and fake “free software catalogue” websites. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Aurora Stealer). The experts also observed multiple infection chains leading to the deployment of Aurora stealer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

LogoKit – Threat actors leveraging Open Redirect Vulnerabilities popular in online services and apps to bypass spam filters in phishing campaigns. Using highly trusted service domains like Snapchat and other online-services, they create special URLs which lead to malicious resources with phishing kits. Resecurity, Inc.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

An international law enforcement operation, named Synergia, led to the arrest of 31 individuals involved in ransomware, banking malware, and phishing attacks. The international law enforcement operation was launched to curb the escalation and professionalisation of transnational cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Microsoft researchers warn of banking adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing and BEC attacks targeting banking and financial organizations. Microsoft discovered multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against banking and financial services organizations.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Security researchers uncovered a large phishing campaign targeting multiple government departments in APAC and EMEA countries. . Researchers from cybersecurity firm Cyjax uncovered a large phishing campaign targeting multiple government departments in APAC and EMEA countries. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Cofense researchers discovered a new phishing campaign using QR codes targeting German e-banking users in the last weeks. Threat actors continue to use multiple techniques to avoid detection and trick recipients into opening phishing messages, including the use of QR codes. “The phish sites are fairly similar.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft uncovered a large-scale phishing-as-a-service operation, dubbed BulletProofLink, that enabled threat actors to easily carry out malicious campaigns. BulletProofLink service was very cheap and allowed threat actors to arrange phishing campaigns without specific technical capabilities. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. Crimemarket was a prominent platform for trading illegal drugs, narcotics, and cybercrime services.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2023

ESET researchers uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server since April 2023. The phishing messages include a phishing page in the attached HTML file, they warn the recipient of an email server update, account deactivation, or similar issue.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Armorblox discovered a new phishing campaign aimed at American Express customers. Armorblox researchers uncovered a new phishing campaign that is targeting American Express customers. The phishing email, marked by Google as safe, was delivered to more than 16,000 users’ addresses. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2022

. “ITG23’s campaigns against Ukraine are notable due to the extent to which this activity differs from historical precedent and the fact that these campaigns appeared specifically aimed at Ukraine with some payloads that suggest a higher degree of target selection,” reads a technical report published by IBM Security X-Force.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7 hacking group created fake cybersecurity companies to hire experts and involve them in ransomware attacks tricking them of conducting a pentest. The FIN7 hacking group is attempting to enter in the ransomware business and is doing it with an interesting technique. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

UNC2465 cybercrime group that is affiliated with the Darkside ransomware gang has infected with malware the website of a CCTV camera vendor. Experts noticed that in this supply chain attack, UNC2465 did not deliver the Darkside ransomware as the final payload, but they not exclude that the cybercrime group could move to a new RaaS operation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Ukrainian police arrested a gang specialized in the sale of stolen payment card data through phishing attacks. The cybercrime unit of the Ukrainian police has arrested a group of cybercriminals who managed to steal payment card data from at least 70,000 people by setting up mobile fake top-up services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A China-based financially motivated group, tracked as Fangxiao, is behind a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. Researchers from Cyjax reported that a China-based financially motivated group, dubbed Fangxiao, orchestrated a large-scale phishing campaign since 2017. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Also worth noting that the Threat Actor(s) did attempt to phish other employees. Other employees did not fall for the phish. It reported that hackers gained access to Activision's network by successfully phishing a privileged user on the network on December 4, 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Experts spotted a spear-phishing Facebook campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce email services. Researchers from Guardio Labs uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce email services and SMTP servers. ” concludes the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The phishing messages use mortgage payments as a lure, they have the subject “Re: Payoff Request.”. “The email claimed to contain a secure file sent via Proofpoint as a link.” The phishing message was sent from a legitimate individual’s compromised email account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2023

“file archiver in the browser” is a new phishing technique that can be exploited by phishers when victims visit a.ZIP domain. A new phishing technique called “file archiver in the browser” can be used by phishers to “emulate” a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a.ZIP domain.

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