Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

Recipients who call the supplied toll-free number to contest the transaction are soon asked to download software that lets the scammers assume remote control over their computer. ” A copy of the phishing message included in the PayPal.com invoice. .” com to download a remote administration tool.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Brian Krebs is reporting on a clever PayPal phishing scam that uses legitimate PayPal messaging. The email lists a phone number to dispute the charge, which is not PayPal and quickly turns into a request to download and install a remote-access tool. Basically, the scammers use the PayPal invoicing system to send the email.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2025

A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a ‘critical patch’ hiding a backdoor. Patchstack researchers uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2025

Once a relationship had been established, the target would receive a phishing link or a document that contained a phishing link. How to stay safe These spear phishing campaigns are highly targeted and youll probably never see an invite to this group. There are a few simple rules that will help you avoid this kind of phishing.

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SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

With each passing year, phishing attacks feature more and more elaborate techniques designed to trick users and evade security measures. However, attackers are exploiting this by embedding scripts with links to phishing pages within the image file. Sample SVG file with embedded HTML code.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cybercriminals are shifting their focus from emails to text messages, using mishing a more deceptive form of phishing to target mobile users and infiltrate corporate networks, according to new security research by Zimperium. Vishing: Also known as voice phishing. What is mishing? and 9%in Brazil.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Phishers are using AI-based phishing attacks which have proven to raise the effectiveness of phishing campaigns. How to avoid AI Gmail phishing Never click on links or download files from unexpected emails or messages. The FBI has also warned users to be cautious when receiving unsolicited emails or text messages.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We’ll also look at increased phishing attacks, a couple of different Cisco flaws, and a Fortinet vulnerability that took some time to get its own CVE. The fix: Download the appropriate fixed version, based on your existing version of vCenter Server, from Broadcom’s list of patched software. Broadcom also released patches for the 8.0

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 30, 2025

Your document is now ready for download: Please download the attachment and follow the provided instructions. There are several circumstances that make this campaign hard to detect: The cybercriminals send phishing emails from compromised WordPress sites, so the domains themselves appear legitimate and not malicious.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. Manipulaters advertisement for “Office 365 Private Page with Antibot” phishing kit sold on the domain heartsender,com.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

CrowdStrike warns of a phishing campaign that uses its recruitment branding to trick recipients into downloading a fake application, which finally installs the XMRig cryptominer. ” The attack begins with a phishing email impersonating CrowdStrike recruitment, directing recipients to a malicious website.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com. The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. For example, when he downloaded and tried to rename the file, the right arrow key on the keyboard moved his cursor to the left, and vice versa.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You know how banks really, really want to avoid their customers falling victim to phishing scams? And how they put a heap of effort into education to warn folks about the hallmarks of phishing scams? banks will never do things that look like a phish? Isn't this what NAB was warning us about - "download of data"?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2025

The FBI has issued a new warning to US law firms about an ongoing and increasingly aggressive phishing campaign orchestrated by the cybercriminal group Luna Moth. Some warning signs the FBI says to watch out for: Unexpected downloads of remote access tools. Connections from WinSCP or Rclone to outside networks.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The threat, dubbed “Phish ‘n Ships” by the researchers, reportedly infected more than 1,000 websites and built 121 fake web stores to trick consumers. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today. Estimated losses are in the region of tens of millions of dollars over the past five years.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2025

A recent phishing campaign has raised alarms among cybersecurity professionals after it impersonated Booking.com to deliver a suite of credential-stealing malware. The phishing messages include links or attachments that direct users to fake Booking.com pages.

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The Hacker News

MAY 12, 2025

Threat actors have been observed leveraging fake artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools as a lure to entice users into downloading an information stealer malware dubbed Noodlophile.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2025

Russia-linked Gamaredon targets Ukraine with a phishing campaign using troop-related lures to deploy the Remcos RAT via PowerShell downloader. Armageddon , Primitive Bear , ACTINIUM , Callisto ) targets Ukraine with a phishing campaign. Talos researchers warn that Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (a.k.a.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Recently weve been seeing quite a few phishing campaigns using QR codes in email attachments. The lure and the targets are varied, but the use of a QR code to get someone to visit the phishing site is fast becoming a preferred method for cybercriminals. DocuSign , Adobe), which increases the perceived legitimacy of the phish.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2025

Kev Breen , senior director of threat research at Immersive Labs , said privilege escalation bugs assume an attacker already has initial access to a compromised host, typically through a phishing attack or by using stolen credentials. “Even if you don’t check for updates, Windows 11 24H2 will automatically download at some point.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2025

Researchers found a fake Bitdefender site spreading the Venom RAT by tricking users into downloading it as antivirus software. DomainTools Intelligence (DTI) researchers warn of a malicious campaign using a fake website (bitdefender-download[.]com) 160 on port 4449.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

But in the background, their system has hidden malware in the file the victim has downloaded, which is capable of gathering information from the affected device such as: Personal identifying information (PII) including Social Security Numbers (SSN). com (phishing) convertitoremp3[.]it com (Phishing) convertix-api[.]xyz

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2025

Table of contents Overview Criminals impersonate Google Ads Lures hosted on Google Sites Phishing for Google account credentials Victimology Who is behind these campaigns? Figure 12: The actual phishing page that follows Finally, all the data is combined with the username and password and sent to the remote server via a POST request.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2025

The attack chain commences via phishing messages, fake browser updates, and invoice lures through Italys PEC email system. In early 2025, Recorded Future researchers observed a phishing campaign targeting the U.S. MintsLoader is used by several threat groups, notably TAG-124. ” reads the report published by Recorded Future.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2025

A sophisticated cybercrime service known as “Lucid” is exploiting vulnerabilities in Apples iMessage and Androids Rich Communication Services (RCS), allowing cyberthieves to conduct large-scale phishing attacks with alarming success. Automated mobile farms that deploy phishing messages at scale.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Last time FakeCall reared its head, BleepingComputer reported that the malware was being distributed as fake banking apps that impersonate large financial institutions, as well as being distributed in phishing emails. The cybercriminals may, for example, offer a loan with a low interest rate and ask the target to call if they’re interested.

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SecureList

JULY 11, 2024

Introduction Bulk phishing email campaigns tend to target large audiences. Yet, certain elements of spear phishing recently started to be used in regular mass phishing campaigns. Spear phishing vs. mass phishing Spear phishing is a type of attack that targets a specific individual or small group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2025

The backdoor is distributed through: Phishing emails with themes such as code of conduct to trick users into downloading the malware. Upon executing the archive, it drops a malicious Windows executable, which eventually downloads and executesthe PLAYFULGHOST payloadfrom a remote server. sys driver.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The malware is distributed through phishing messages using a malicious attachment or a link to the malicious archive containing Bumblebee. The Bumblebee infection detected by Netskope likely begins with a phishing email containing a ZIP file with an LNK file named “Report-41952.lnk” lnk” that, once executed, starts the attack chain.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2024

Researchers detected a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Microsoft OneDrive users to trick them into executing a PowerShell script. Over the past few weeks, the Trellix Advanced Research Center observed a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Microsoft OneDrive users. exe”), and executes script.a3x using AutoIt3.exe.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

Technical support consultant using programming to upgrade artificial intelligence simulation model As AI tools boom in popularity, cyberthieves are exploiting the excitement with fake AI video editing platforms that lure users into downloading malware. Document.docx: A disguised batch file that downloads more malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2025

Check Point Research team reported that Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT29 (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , BlueBravo , Midnight Blizzard , and The Dukes ) is behind a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting European diplomatic entities, using a new WINELOADER variant and a previously unknown malware called GRAPELOADER.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 6, 2025

This campaign leverages fake CAPTCHAs and CloudFlare Turnstile to trick victims into downloading malware, which ultimately leads to the installation of a malicious browser extension. Netskope Threat Labs has uncovered a new malicious campaign that employs deceptive tactics to distribute the LegionLoader malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2024

CERT-UA warned that Russia-linked actor is impersonating the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) in a new phishing campaign to distribute malware. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new phishing campaign targeting organizations in the country, including government entities.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 8, 2024

A new phishing campaign has set its eyes on the Latin American region to deliver malicious payloads to Windows systems. The phishing email contained a ZIP file attachment that when extracted reveals an HTML file that leads to a malicious file download posing as an invoice," Trustwave SpiderLabs researcher Karla Agregado said.

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