Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

QakBot is most commonly delivered via email phishing lures disguised as something legitimate and time-sensitive, such as invoices or work orders. Qbot and Pinkslipbot ) has morphed into an advanced malware strain now used by multiple cybercriminal groups to prepare newly compromised networks for ransomware infestations.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

To get access to the content (or contest), phishing sites prompted the victim to sign in to one of their gaming accounts. If the victim entered their credentials on the phishing form, the account was hijacked. Cryptocurrency scams Phishing aimed at stealing crypto wallet credentials remained a common money-making tool.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Do not trust everything you see online.

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Javvad Malik

JULY 20, 2023

The Internet is a treacherous playground, and wouldn’t you know it, Google, the wise old seer of the digital realm, is suggesting that its employees disconnect from the very beast they helped create. So naturally, Google’s answer to this madness is to keep these digital warriors off the internet entirely.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Ukraine’s CERT (CERT-UA) warned of a new phishing campaign by the APT28 group to deploy previously undocumented malware strains. CERT-UA discovered multiple phishing attacks aimed at government organizations between December 15 and December 25. ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. 1 – Example of Phishing Page Delivered by Azure Front Door (AFD).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. And with good reason — sex sells (the second most-read piece here was my 2015 scoop about the Ashley Madison hack ).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

What are phishing kits? One of the most common tricks scammers use in phishing attacks is to create a fake official page of a famous brand. Even phishing page domain name can often look like the real web address of a certain brand, as cybercriminals include the name of the company or service they are posing as in the URL.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Researchers from threat intelligence Cyble have discovered threat actors abusing the Ngrok platform in a fresh phishing campaign. Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For the first time in the history of cyber attacks, a China-based university serving Aviation industry has accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for hacking into its servers to steal intelligence related to aviation, aerospace and navigation study material.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims. The infographic below outlines the most common types of phishing attacks used against individuals or businesses. The eight most common forms of phishing-based cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities using drone manuals as lures to deliver the post-exploitation toolkit Merlin. Securonix researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign using a Pilot-in-Command (PIC) Drone manual document as a lure to deliver a toolkit dubbed Merlin.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

Joseph who hails from Liverpool is suspected to be the culprit of the July 2020 Hack of Twitter where over 130 twitter accounts including that of the Kanye West, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Tesla Chief Elon Musk were hacked to propagate a fake cryptocurrency earning scheme.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Hot wallets and attempts at hacking them A hot wallet is a cryptocurrency wallet with permanent access to the internet. Hence, cybercriminals have little motivation to invest heavily into phishing campaigns, and so, techniques used in email attacks on hot wallets are hardly ever original or complex.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

German police arrested one individual suspected of having stolen €4 million from users via large-scale phishing campaigns. Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2020 Internet Crime Report). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 19, 2021

This year reveals Ryuk Ransomware’s predilection towards targeting hosts with remote desktop connections exposed on the public Internet. What’s more, the threat actors’ personal favorite initial infection vector continues to be the targeted phishing emails for malware delivery.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this study, we analyzed how long phishing pages survive as well as the signs they show when they become inactive. In addition to the general data, we provided a number of options for classifying phishing pages according to formal criteria and analyzed the results for each of them. Life cycle of phishing pages. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

A phishing campaign employing QR codes targeted a leading energy company in the US, cybersecurity firm Cofense reported. “Beginning in May 2023, Cofense has observed a large phishing campaign utilizing QR codes targeting the Microsoft credentials of users from a wide array of industries.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bad ops of operators of a phishing campaign exposed credentials stolen in attacks and made them publicly available through Google queries. . Check Point Research along with experts from cybersecurity firm Otorio shared details on their investigation into a large-scale phishing campaign that targeted thousands of global organizations.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

The US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating its representatives to steal sensitive info. The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is warning US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign. finrar-reporting[.]org, org, finpro-finrar[.]org,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

The investigation into the intrusion revealed the involvement of 13 internet addresses including one traced to the Kimsuky APt group. Currently, the Atomic Energy Research Institute is investigating the subject of the hacking and the amount of damage, etc. ? SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea). ” reported the Reuters.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 22, 2021

“They used their own low-sophistication malware disguised as secure chat applications, in addition to malware tools openly available on the internet.” Their way of operating is different and much more in line with other hacking groups. Windows was also a target, but the hackers used existing threats such as NJRat and HWorm.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature. Urlscan also found this phishing scam from Jan.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its annual report, providing the public with specific details on how cybercrime has evolved in the last five years, what threats were the most persistent, and what groups were the most targeted, along with a flurry of other information and statistics.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. TARGETED PHISHING. The targeted phishing message that went out to classicfootballshirts.co.uk So hopefully by this point it should be clear why re-using passwords is generally a bad idea. customers this month.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

The threat actors seem to have a preference for hosting their payloads on compromised WordPress sites, many of which are already hacked with malicious PHP shell scripts. Fake WinDirStat website Compromised sites The threat actor is using a number of hacked sites to host their malicious payloads which they regularly rotate through.

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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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