Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The experts pointed out that crooks engaged in phishing activities have started to rely on the popular instant messaging platform more in recent months. On Telegram is possible to find channels that offer: Free phishing kits that can be used to target users of a large number of global and local brands. User personal data for sale.

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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. that are easier for computers to manage.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 5, 2021

So, those who take part in this program will be shared with data collected from various resources, such as the public and private partners, online info sharing groups, and gateway Frameworks.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual spam.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Russia-link cyberespionage APT28 leverages COVID-19 as phishing lures to deliver the Go version of their Zebrocy (or Zekapab) malware. Russia-linked APT28 is leveraging COVID-19 as phishing lures in a new wave of attacks aimed at distributing the Go version of their Zebrocy (or Zekapab) malware. ” concludes the report.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The data is thought to have originated from Data&Leads, Inc. A cached version of the company’s website shows that it promised “access to our massive in-house data collection, as well as one of the largest data supplier networks of any data or lead company.”.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As we were collecting and analyzing the relevant telemetry data, we realized the campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry. The attackers continued to send malicious documents via email until the end of September 2022.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Speed is the natural enemy of security, and retailers must beware of increased risks of DDoS attacks, ransomware, fraudulent purchases, [and] phishing campaigns impersonating retailers.”.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2022

Seaborgium's campaigns typically involve phishing and credential theft, which lead to intrusions and data breaches. Once successful, it slowly infiltrates targeted organizations' social networks through constant impersonation, rapport building, and phishing to deepen their intrusion.

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SecureList

AUGUST 8, 2022

The attackers penetrated the enterprise network using carefully crafted phishing emails, some of which use information that is specific to the organization under attack and is not publicly available. Microsoft Word documents attached to the phishing emails contained malicious code that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

The North Korea-linked threat actors are conducting spear-phishing attacks to deliver using the AppleSeed backdoor into the network of its targets. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. The report often includes recommendations and best practices to mitigate the risks identified in the data. These criminals' methods can be predictable.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

As a portion of data belongs to the armed forces personnel and some government employees holding bureaucrat status- an enormous threat to national security as such, info is often used to launch phishing or other forms of social engineering attacks. Voter ID details weren’t leaked in the cyber-attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

. “While the initial vector for the infection is not entirely clear, the McAfee ATR team believes with a medium level of confidence that victims were lured to a domain under control of the threat actor, from which they were infected with malware which the threat actor leveraged to perform additional discovery and data collection.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2023

Watch our video "Understanding Attacker Infrastructure" Cyber attacks don’t happen in a vacuum: Threat actors require complex infrastructure to deploy malware and ransomware, carry out phishing campaigns, and conduct attacks on supply chains. Phishing attacks have been a threat for over two decades.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Should TikTok be breached, like many companies before them, your data can be obtained by hackers and scammers. Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2020

The attackers sent out spear-phishing emails using boobytrapped documents leveraging the fake job offer as bait. “The data collected from the target machine could be useful in classifying the value of the target. ” states the report published by the experts.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 18, 2021

For example, the latest version of the Safari browser for iPhones and iPads sports a feature called Fraudulent Website Warning , displaying a warning if you visit a website suspected of phishing. The same goes for data collection practices : “Starting with the beta versions of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Data collected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint shows that nearly 3,000 devices in almost 1,000 organizations have seen at least one RaspberryRobin payload-related alert in the last 30 days. DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Of course, the CBR does not have anything to do with the phishing campaign – the hackers faked the sender’s address. A spear-phishing campaign set up to look like it was carried out by the Central Bank is a relatively widespread vector of attack among cyber criminals; it has been used by groups such as Buhtrap, Anunak , Cobalt , and Lurk.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2021

Researchers now believe that the rapid adoption of these skills could have implications for information security as they could open Alexa users up to phishing or invasive data collection. The issue that arises from duplicate invocation names is the increased threat of phishing attacks. What is an Amazon Alexa Skill?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. Fraudsters use various ways to deceive users: phishing websites, fake mobile apps, accounts and groups on social media. Phishing remains one of the most common online fraud.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Where does your personal data end up?” ” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. If an employee attempts to log in to this fake resource, this login information will end up in the hands of the phishing scammers.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

These data sets may include IP addresses, operating systems, browser type, game time and web page interactions. In other words, collecting your data is a process in which you are more directly involved than you might think. It may seem a reasonable and straightforward exchange to benefit from services at first.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Filling up phishing pages with junk data is a sport of its own, although it may also be counterproductive at times. While financial institutions can reissue you a new card in the mail, the information the criminals have collected is equivalent to a data breach and can be reused for other types of fraud later on.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Website security protects your visitors from: Stolen data. From email addresses to payment information, cybercriminals frequently go after visitor or customer data stored on a site. Phishing schemes. What do I need to secure my website? An SSL certificate.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). Cybercriminals employed all manner of schemes to target businesses and individuals, including phishing, spoofing and tech support fraud, the FBI reported. This represents a 69% increase from the previous year and a total of U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

link ) was posted on Pastebin , the hacker claims to have compromised user’s email and also accused ProtonMail of sending user’s decrypted data to American servers. AmFearLiathMor also wrote that ProtonMail hasn’t configured the mandatory Subresource Integrity ( SRI ) allowing tampering and data collection.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2021

The part about data being sent even without an account wasn’t made clear, according to Motherboard. They also apologised for the oversight, and shut down “unnecessary device data” collection. Interestingly, one part of the settlement is a request for Facebook to delete US user data obtained via the SDK. The numbers game.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

In the next section, we will show exactly what happens during this process of data collection and exfiltration. These phishing pages have been appearing in recent reports about malvertising abusing Google ads like the one reported by Guardio Labs (leading to Vidar and other infostealers) as well as SilentPush (leading to Ursnif).

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

While not highly sensitive, the data could still be used by threat actors to stage attacks against US business owners who the threat actors might see as being more affluent and potentially vulnerable to phishing and ransomware attacks. Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

SentinelOne offers protection against executables, memory-only malware, exploits in documents, spear phishing emails, macros, drive-by downloads and other browser exploits, scripts such as Powershell, and credential encroachments. Its patented behavioral and static AI models provide powerful automation for identifying and blocking threats.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Control Your Data Trail Be mindful of the trail of data you leave behind in order to take charge of your online presence. Many websites and services allow you to opt out of their data collection procedures. Read privacy policies carefully and exercise your right to control your data where possible.

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