Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

LastPass has followed news of last month’s breach with details on a second attack in which developers were phished for their credentials. In the January incident, the password manager’s parent, GoTo, said that in addition to stealing encrypted backups containing customer data, hackers nicked an encryption key last November. “An

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Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 21, 2022

Password-protected ZIP archives are common means of compressing and sharing sets of files—from sensitive documents to malware samples to even malware (phishing "invoices" in emails).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Experts from Cybereason Nocturnus uncovered an active campaign that targets users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America with Chaes malware. Experts at Cybereason Nocturnus have uncovered an active campaign targeting the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America with malware tracked as Chaes.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Indian government entities and the defense sector have been targeted by a phishing campaign that's engineered to drop Rust-based malware for intelligence gathering. New Rust-based payloads and encrypted PowerShell commands have been utilized to exfiltrate

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link].

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. It serves as a vessel for various strains of malware, including ransomware, and underlies data-stealing campaigns that target large organizations and individuals alike. And for good reason. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. The malware has been active since 2023, specifically targeting victims in Vietnam and Thailand.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Researchers from Kaspersky have discovered that those using YoWhatsApp are being targeted with trojan malware named Triada having capabilities of stealing data from mobile phone and indulging in espionage. Usually, such malware is circulated as apps like Snaptube, that promise video downloads from Facebook, YouTube and Instagram all for free.

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Spinone

MARCH 13, 2020

Unfortunately, for hackers coronavirus has meant just another opportunity to spread malware through phishing emails. Coronavirus Phishing Emails Phishing is among the top 5 ways to get ransomware. To initiate a phishing attack, a scammer sends you an email with a malicious link/attachment. Let’s find out.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Released today, the Malwarebytes State of Malware 2024 report takes a deep dive into the latest developments in the world of cybercrime. We have seen news of ChatGPT leaking user’s information and law enforcement asking for backdoors in encryption routines. This is changing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new, sophisticated phishing attack has been observed delivering the AsyncRAT trojan as part of a malware campaign that's believed to have commenced in September 2021.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Bumblebee, a freshly uncovered malware loader, is most probably the Conti syndicate’s latest creation, aimed to replace the BazarLoader backdoor leveraged for ransomware payloads delivery purposes. The post Conti’s BazarLoader Replaced with Bumblebee Malware appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Hive ransomware operators have developed a new variant of their malware that can encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. ESET researchers discovered a new Hive ransomware variant that was specifically developed to encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Microsoft has made it official that it has disabled macros across its office products to block malware cyber attacks. The post Microsoft disables macros to curtail Malware Cyber Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Some military personnel and their families(say about 23) in United States are being constantly targeted by phishing campaigns launched by a notorious online criminal gang from Nigeria that is habituated to ignore the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act and such.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 18, 2024

QR Code Scams: What You Need to Know About This Phishing Tactic madhav Tue, 03/19/2024 - 06:10 In a world where individuals and organizations alike are increasingly dependent on digital processes, cybercriminals are constantly looking for and developing new ways to exploit technology to take advantage of their targets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Trickbot banking malware is back in news for inducing a new ransomware variant into the wild. Researchers from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs has have found that the new malware strain is acting similar to that of Conti Ransomware with a change that it Asymmetric encryption algorithms unlike other file encrypting malware variants.

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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. To nominate, please visit:?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. Attribute-based access.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Agentb malware family. The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 The contact phone trick was heavily used both in email messages and on phishing pages. Trends of the year. Malicious links.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2019

A ransomware outbreak that hit QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in mid-July appears to have started with an email phishing attack that snared an employee working in sales for the company, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. “For these infections hackers take sometimes days, weeks, or even months to encrypt your data.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

A phishing campaign that Microsoft security researchers have been tracking for about a year highlights not only the ongoing success of social engineering efforts by hackers to compromise systems, but also the extent to which the bad actors will go to cover their tracks while stealing user credentials. Whitelisting vs. Blacklisting.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. They had the targeted unsuspecting persons with phishing emails that promised phoney collaboration opportunities. The malware has the ability to steal passwords and cookies.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Attackers have always targeted online collaboration tools like Slack and Discord for malware distribution and phishing. Hackers get the added benefit of attacking over Teams or any other similar service if they use SSL encryption which can automatically bypass some security tools which are oblivious to things happening under SSL.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

The malware is primarily used to steal sensitive information, such as login credentials and financial information, from victims. The Dridex malware typically spreads through spam email campaigns, with the emails containing a malicious attachment or link that, when clicked, will install the malware on the victim's computer.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this week’s post, we take a look at “in-the-wild” phishing attacks and talk about how to protect against a phishing attack and how to counter them. Phishing Attack Examples. Here are two examples of phishing attacks that were carried out. Often malware attacks are multi-functional like our next example.

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Hacker Combat

JULY 7, 2022

A new malware is now an important component when it comes to engineering ransomware attacks. The malware, which goes by the name Bumblebee, was recently analyzed by Symantec researchers. An attachment involving quantum has also shed some light on the way cybercriminals use this new malware to deliver ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2024

A new type of malware is being used by ransomware gangs in their attacks, and its name is PikaBot. Simply put, a modular trojan is a type of malware designed to be flexible and extensible, allowing attackers to add or update its functionalities easily without needing to replace the whole malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

Fortinet researchers observed a threat actor sending out a phishing email containing malicious Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files. The campaign is notable for its utilization of the BatCloak malware obfuscation engine and ScrubCrypt to distribute the malware through obfuscated batch scripts.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

ransomware affiliate is using phishing emails that install the Amadey Bot to take control of a device and encrypt devices. [.]. A LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

The threat actors sent out spam emails with attachments that eventually launched the StrelaStealer malware. The malware StrelaStealer is an email credential stealer that DCSO_CyTec first documented in November 2022. “The JScript file then drops a Base64-encrypted file and a batch file. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

We believe that these archive files have been distributed using spear phishing emails. Before initialization, the malware effectively suppresses all error reporting by calling SetErrorMode with 0x8007 as parameter. The malware communicates with its C2 using HTTP requests. Data encryption with HTTP requests. Archive files.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

Malvertising Enters a New Age While Google grapples with the potential threat that ChatGPT poses to its advertising business, cybercriminals are taking advantage of Google Ads to ramp up their phishing attacks on unsuspecting victims. Your EDR client also couldn’t find anything malicious, so it allowed the malware to run.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed that the number of phishing websites peaked at record levels in the first quarter of 2021. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published its new Phishing Activity Trends Report related to the first quarter of 2021. Reported Phishing Websites for Q1 2021.

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