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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Secure web- phishing. In the first six months of 2020, CERT-GIB blocked a total of 9 304 phishing web resources, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the previous year.

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Phishing trap: security awareness through a different lens

BH Consulting

Is it just us, or is phishing everywhere right now? Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. An emotional phish . spyware, ransomware).”. A message to you.

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Evilnum Group targets European and British fintech companies

Security Affairs

The JS script would also act as a dropper for additional payloads, including a C# spyware, Golden Chickens components, and Python-based applications. Older versions of these components were previously used by the FIN6 APT group in attacks on eCommerce merchants. ” concludes ESET.

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NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper

SecureList

NullMixer is a dropper that includes more than just specific malware families; it drops a wide variety of malicious binaries to infect the machine with, such as backdoors, bankers, downloaders, spyware and many others. The malware is known to be sold on online forums, and distributed via phishing emails. NullMixer execution chain.

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