Penetration Testing

APRIL 17, 2025

A recent report from Unit 42, the threat intelligence division of Palo Alto Networks, reveals a sophisticated and The post Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Uses Multi-Layered Tactics to Deliver Malware appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The State of the Phish is the industry benchmark report around the world's leading cyberattack vector. We want to understand that average person, and the average InfoSec professional and what they are experiencing," says Gretel Egan Sr. "We Security Awareness Finding #2: what phishing attacks lead to. And we have 53% of U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2025

What is consent phishing? Most people are familiar with the two most common types of phishingcredential phishing and phishing payloads, where attackers trick users into revealing credentials and downloading malicious software respectively. However, there is a third type of phishing on the rise: consent phishing.

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SC Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. “B” is obviously the correct choice, but not all companies succeed in motivating their workers to learn the ins and outs of phishing, social engineering and other cyber threats. .

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. 22% involved phishing. Phishing is usually going after credentials, but stealing money is continues to rise in popularity. Hacking, social, and malware have fallen the most.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device. Apps from other sources can carry malware or spyware.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Phishing emails are now skating past traditional defenses. Justin Jett, director of audit and compliance at Plixer, discusses what to do about it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

We're right on the heels of Magecart cybercriminals New malware domain found: scanalytic[.org net/static/counter.js [link] #infosec #cybersecurity #malware pic.twitter.com/F6LJ6CBCCA — Luke Leal (@rootprivilege) June 13, 2022. The researchers recently uncovered two domains, “scanalytic[.]org” staticounter[.]net

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Nick Kael, CTO at Ericom, discusses how phishing is gaining sophistication and what it means for businesses.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2021

During COVID-19, threat actors used fear of the virus and hope of a vaccine to trick unwitting victims into downloading malware or giving up their credentials. Social engineering attacks like phishing take advantage of an employee’s awareness of.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Further evolution of cyberthreats as a response to infosec tools and measures. Reducing the life cycle of malware. To avoid detection, more and more cybercriminals are adopting the strategy of frequently upgrading malware in their chosen family. And the tactic is likely to spread to other types of threats as well.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A graph representing the NIST Phish Scale scoring methodology. Introduced in September 2020, the NIST Phish Scale scores phishing emails based on certain key properties to determine their level of sophistication and deceptiveness. their organization faces.”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Malware is currently delivered from: 'hxxps://customermgmt.net/page/macrocosm' #cybersecurity #infosec — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAlert) July 2, 2019. It was highly speculated that spear phishes were involved, but not a lot of information around the initial vectors was published.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

Once obtained the credentials, the attackers launched voice phishing attacks in an attempt to trick the victim into accepting the MFA push notification started by the attacker. cybersecurity #infosec #ransomware pic.twitter.com/kwrfjbwbkT — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) August 10, 2022.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Early January, an interesting malware sample has been disclosed through the InfoSec community: a potential GreyEnergy implant still under investigation. It typically spreads through two different vectors: perimeter breach, for instance compromising company’s websites; spear-phishing emails and malicious attachments.

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Adam Shostack

MAY 20, 2020

” How the intrusion happens is about questions like: Is it phishing emails that steal creds? For example, I believe that patch management is way harder than you’d believe if you read infosec twitter, but so what? Email attachments with exploits? SQL injection? Is it APTs or scripts? Which intrusions lead to major breaches?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

ransomfeed #security #infosec #energychina pic.twitter.com/deRRximVPd — Ransomfeed (@ransomfeed) November 25, 2023 The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) is a state-owned company in China that operates in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Energy China [link] TL;DR That's huuuge!

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2021

Australia starts cyber-learning early (Source: The Register) Vivaldi browser crumbles some cookies (Source: Vivaldi) UK rail network hit by ransomware (Source: Bleeping Computer) RAT malware causes problems for Telegram (Source: How To Geek) Linux malware and the art of evasion (Source: TechRadar) Phishing campaign targets Chase bank customers (Source: (..)

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

How the intrusion happens is about questions like: Is it phishing emails that steal creds? For example, I believe that patch management is way harder than you'd believe if you read infosec twitter, but so what? Related: My 2013 SIRA talk, " Building a Science of Security ", " Zeroing in on Malware Propagation Methods."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2022

Last week the infosec community was hit with news about a new Windows 0-day vulnerability, Follina. Educate your users about sophisticated phishing emails. Finely tuned spam filters that prevent phishing emails from reaching user mailboxes. Network segmentation that prevents malware from spreading across the corporate network.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additionally, cybercriminals may be able to use inflation to their advantage, such as by sending phishing emails that appear to be from legitimate companies offering discounts or assistance. Economic effects, including inflationary pressures, have had a broad impact across the InfoSec landscape," Smeaton said.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

By getting an executive on the hook, they could potentially convince them to download a job spec that is malware. The front-companies facilitated hackers to create malware, attack targets of interest to gain business intelligence, trade-secrets, and information about sensitive technologies. Techniques & Tactics.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Segment your internal corporate networks to isolate any malware infections that may arise. Build security awareness training modules to educate your employees on how to spot phishing emails or business-related scams. Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Infosec personnel should also help employees store those passwords safely such as via the use of a password manager. Digital attackers can use malicious website and phishing accounts to trick users into handing over their password and, by extension, they key to their account. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication. Just the Beginning….

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2022

Yes, these advances have meant huge changes for the way that InfoSec operates, there are still many things that can only be managed with human input. So, does this mean that you can get rid of your security staff and leave it all to the software? Well, it's not quite as simple as that.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The team saw an average of 375 new threats per minute and a surge of cybercriminals exploiting the pandemic through COVID-19 themed malicious apps, phishing campaigns, malware, and more. Now in beta with a target launch date of Q1, 2021, we built CNAPP to provide InfoSec teams broad visibility into their cloud native applications.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Unfortunately, we see many malicious actors taking advantage of social engineering techniques via SMiShing, Phishing , Vishing , and Impersonation attacks. According to Carahsoft’s 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey , phishing attacks were the most common threat to healthcare systems, accounting for 45% of security incidents.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Social engineering, phishing scams, ransomware, DDoS attacks , and software vulnerabilities are just some of the threats facing overloaded security professionals with limited budgets. Bear in mind that SOAR requires a mix of technologies and tools that deliver the capabilities the infosec team requires.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With cybercriminals commonly sharing tactics and techniques on underground forums, and with digital adversaries frequently leveraging many of the same commodity malwares and commercially available tools, it can be difficult to assign attribution to a cyber campaign. Scazon / CC BY 2.0 ).

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

The hackers then hid the malware inside legitimate software updates. Hackers then used the malware to create backdoors into infected systems and scan victims’ networks for additional ICS/SCADA devices, the indictment said. SolarWinds: Should Security Live in InfoSec or DevOps? During the Dragonfly 2.0 Related posts.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2021

Over the years, this tool has become a part of the arsenal of several Chinese-related threat actors such as Tick , Tonto Team and TA428 , all of which employ RoyalRoad regularly for spear-phishing in targeted attacks against high-value targets. .

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NopSec

MAY 21, 2020

I am sure all my infosec colleagues analyzed the report cover-to-cover and more specifically from the incident response and intrusion detection perspective. On the other hand, the Malware and C2 “infection” techniques are in a distant fourth place, at only 17%.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Vade Secure’s IsItPhishing API provides a quick way to lookup a URL to determine if it is phishing. Read more here. More details here.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Cybercriminals have become increasingly sophisticated when developing email phishing scams to collect your sensitive information and data or install malware on your devices. I’ve been in infosec for over 30 years and have had the great privilege of evolving and learning as a cybersecurity executive in a space I love.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few. Malware linked to the U.S.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

According to Microsoft : A highly evasive malware delivery technique that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features, is increasingly used in email campaigns that deploy banking malware, remote access Trojans (RATs), and other payloads related to targeted attacks.

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