Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Spear phishing emails distribution. In this email, a macro-based document was sent to the victim. Passive DNS data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Today, weaponized Microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to deliver malware, because they also rely on simple social engineering tricks to lure users to enable them. . Figure 2 – Document view inviting to enable macro. Last DNS activity was in December 2018.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. A document sent from one colleague to another on a topic, which is currently being discussed, is unlikely to trigger any suspicion. Ultimately, it elevates the level of trust sufficiently for the document to be opened.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s a good idea to try things on your own and then read the documentation or tutorials. There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., phishing) Memory corruptions Wi-Fi attacks Kali is a wonderful toolbox, because it has tools for a wide range of pentests.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That includes documents with corporate and legal information about specific businesses or individuals. According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. Media giant with $6.35 Why did it happen?

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

The threat actor typically exploits Word documents, using shortcut files for the initial intrusion. Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia. The threat actor uses social engineering to infect a PoS terminal.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. Typically, they construct emails that masquerade as communications from legitimate venture companies, but with an attached, macro-enabled document. When opened, this document eventually downloads a backdoor.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

The malware was more advanced than the samples identified earlier in the year that we documented in two of our private reports. According to the authors, the decoys, used in malicious documents and spread in the early stages of these operations, resemble the one used by TransparentTribe (aka APT36 and Mythic Leopard) and Sidecopy.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The phishing campaign trying to impersonate DHL. For more details, see below.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Researchers found that TrickBot developers created a tool called anchor_dns which uses a single-byte X0R cipher to obfuscate communications and, once de-obfuscated, is discoverable in DNS request traffic. as phishing attempts often do to gain trust. C:WindowsSysWOW64. s simply too long. ???Blended Blended attacks are now the norm.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

Back to the present, the experts discovered that the attackers used several RATs to steal sensitive documents, the researchers collected evidence of the involvement of the Quasar RAT , Sobaken RAT, and Vermin. ” reads the report from PaloAlto Networks. ” Reads the analysis published by ESET. have been active even longer. .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. Campaign attackers have been highly effective at fooling victims into revealing their logon credentials to copycat websites (phishing). Attackers stole sensitive documents. campaigns from around 2016.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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