SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Phishing is all around us. Attackers use a variety of tricks to get their hands on personal data, payment information, and corporate secrets. There, the employee is tricked into entering personal account details or other confidential information or into downloading an attachment that harbors a virus.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 7, 2021

The post What Is Residual Risk in Information Security? appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Cyberattacks have been happening for decades, but as we have become more dependent on digital technology and infrastructure and therefore create more value in […].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2024

An international law enforcement operation led to the disruption of the prominent phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost. An international law enforcement operation, codenamed Nebulae and coordinated by Europol, led to the disruption of LabHost, which is one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platforms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

The individuals launched spear-phishing and malware attacks. Iranian cyber actors persist in targeting the United States through various malicious cyber activities, including ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and spear phishing campaigns against individuals, companies, and government entities.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In a breach that's making headlines, hackers managed to steal data from the company, including sensitive employee information and upcoming game content. Also worth noting that the Threat Actor(s) did attempt to phish other employees. Other employees did not fall for the phish.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2024

carmaker with spear-phishing attacks. In late 2023, BlackBerry researchers spotted the threat actor FIN7 targeting a large US automotive manufacturer with a spear-phishing campaign. BlackBerry reported that the financially motivated group FIN7 targeted the IT department of a large U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Experts reported that since April, the Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to spread LockBit Black ransomware. Phishing Reporting : Report phishing emails and other malicious cyber activities to relevant authorities like the FBI’s IC3 and the NJCCIC.

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SecureList

AUGUST 14, 2023

Examples include automation with phishing kits or Telegram bots. Besides tucking a phishing page inside the website they hack, scammers can steal all of the data on the server and completely disrupt the site’s operation. A lack of maintenance and security patches means they are easy to compromise using a known exploit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The Royal Malaysian Police announced the seizure of the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. The Royal Malaysian Police announced to have dismantled the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. The operation was first documented on OSINT Fans by Gabor Szathmari in October 2020.

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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. The group employed previously undetected malware such as OCEANMAP, MASEPIE, and STEELHOOK to steal sensitive information from target networks.

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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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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2024

In episode 327 Tom, Scott, and Kevin discuss the findings from Mandiant’s M-Trends 2024 report, highlighting a significant rise in traditional vulnerability exploitation by attackers while observing a decline in phishing. Despite phishing’s decreased prevalence, it remains the second most popular method for gaining initial network access.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Cofense researchers discovered a new phishing campaign using QR codes targeting German e-banking users in the last weeks. Threat actors continue to use multiple techniques to avoid detection and trick recipients into opening phishing messages, including the use of QR codes. “The phish sites are fairly similar.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Researchers reported on Friday that cybercriminals are mimicking legitimate correspondence to actively target popular cloud applications DocuSign and SharePoint in phishing attacks designed to steal user log-in credentials. The post Phishing attack targets DocuSign and SharePoint users appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks since the country offered support to Ukraine. The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks, threat actors sent more than 1,330 emails to accounts belonging to the country’s state services. “Owners of.md

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to hit more than 10,000 organizations. In AiTM phishing, threat actors set up a proxy server between a target user and the website the user wishes to visit, which is the phishing site under the control of the attackers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Threat actors exploited an open redirection vulnerability in the job search platform Indeed to carry out phishing attacks. Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Menlo Security reported that threat actors exploited an open redirection vulnerability in the job search platform Indeed in phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft warns of large-scale phishing attacks orchestrated with an open-source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit available in the cybercrime ecosystem Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kits are becoming an essential technology in the cybercrime ecosystem that is used by multiple threat actors to launch phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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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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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Next, we discuss the emerging threat of “quishing,” a combination of voice calls and phishing that preys on unsuspecting victims. The post Okta Hacked Again, Quishing Is The New Phishing, Google Play Protect Real-Time Scanning appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. reads a translation of the message.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The phishing messages use mortgage payments as a lure, they have the subject “Re: Payoff Request.”. “The email claimed to contain a secure file sent via Proofpoint as a link.” The phishing message was sent from a legitimate individual’s compromised email account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

JUNE 11, 2023

Microsoft researchers warn of banking adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing and BEC attacks targeting banking and financial organizations. Microsoft discovered multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against banking and financial services organizations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. Russia-linked APT29 (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , and The Dukes ) was spotted abusing the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries in attacks aimed at governments.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ICANN made the policy change in response to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a law enacted by the European Parliament that requires companies to gain affirmative consent for any personal information they collect on people within the European Union.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The message informs the recipient that a new voicemail has been received. Upon clicking on the Play Voicemail button, the recipient is redirected to a phishing link that points to a page that clones the Microsoft login page. Using Customer Voice links, threat actors are able to bypass security measures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

Security experts uncovered a new Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, the messages inform recipients that they have been exposed to the virus. The malicious code analyzed by BleepingComputer researchers is an information stealer, it attempts to steal cryptocurrency wallets and web browser cookies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

Researchers from RiskIQ have discovered a new phishing kit dubbed LogoKit that dynamically compose phishing content. Researchers from RiskIQ discovered a new phishing kit that outstands for its ability to dynamically create phishing messages to target specific users. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Phishing).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2022

The threat actors behind a large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing campaign now target Google G Suite users. The threat actors behind a large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing campaign targeting enterprise users of Microsoft email services were spotted targeting Google G Suite users.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Threat actors have launched a phishing campaign targeting more than 125 TikTok ‘Influencer’ accounts in an attempt to hijack them. Researchers from Abnormal Security uncovered a phishing scam aimed at hijacking at least 125 TikTok ‘Influencer’ accounts. ” reads the report published by Abnormal Security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. ” a Subway spokesperson told BleepingComputer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Chaes malware was first spotted in the middle to late 2020 by Cybereason researchers, it is a multistage information stealer that focuses on Brazilian customers of MercadoLivre, the largest e-commerce company in Latin America. information stealer that exfiltrates data using the node process.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Microsoft uncovered an extensive series of credential phishing campaigns that employed a custom phishing kit tracked as TodayZoo. Microsoft researchers uncovered a custom phishing kit, dubbed TodayZoo, that was used in an extensive series of credential phishing campaigns. com domain to send the phishing messages.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2023

ESET researchers uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server since April 2023. The phishing messages include a phishing page in the attached HTML file, they warn the recipient of an email server update, account deactivation, or similar issue.

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