Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2025

Hive0117 targets Russian firms in multiple sectors with phishing attacks using a modified version of the DarkWatchman malware. A cybercrime group named Hive0117 is behind a fresh phishing campaign that targeted Russian organizations with a new version of the DarkWatchman malware, according to Russian cybersecurity firm F6.

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Malware Phishing Telecommunications Antivirus 88

The Hacker News

JULY 11, 2024

Spanish language victims are the target of an email phishing campaign that delivers a new remote access trojan (RAT) called Poco RAT since at least February 2024. The attacks primarily single out mining, manufacturing, hospitality, and utilities sectors, according to cybersecurity company Cofense.

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Phishing Manufacturing Malware Cybersecurity 133

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Ransomware and phishing were the top cybersecurity issues for businesses in 2021, according to IBM Security’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. To read this article in full, please click here

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Manufacturing Ransomware Phishing Malware 116

The Hacker News

APRIL 1, 2024

The threat actor known as TA558 has been attributed to a new massive phishing campaign that targets a wide range of sectors in Latin America with the goal of deploying Venom RAT.

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Phishing Manufacturing Government 141

The Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2024

The Iran-affiliated threat actor tracked as MuddyWater (aka Mango Sandstorm or TA450) has been linked to a new phishing campaign in March 2024 that aims to deliver a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution called Atera.

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Phishing Surveillance Manufacturing Technology 138

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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Phishing Passwords Manufacturing Healthcare 145

Dark Reading

MAY 11, 2023

New "Greatness" phishing-as-a-service used in attacks targeting manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and other sectors.

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Phishing Manufacturing Healthcare Technology 124

Cisco Security

MAY 16, 2022

So you can imagine my relief when I found out we’d be able to help them overcome a significant manufacturing hurdle that could have brought my snack supply to a halt. Visibility into the production line, processes and vital manufacturing machines was blocked. I’ve personally tried their snacks – they’re delicious.

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Manufacturing Technology Architecture Firewall 142

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

EnamelPins, which manufactures and sells medals, pins, and other emblematic accessories, for months left open an Elasticsearch instance that exposed 300,000 customer emails, including 2,500 from military and government personnel. The company, based in California, also has links to China, Cybernews researchers wrote.

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Manufacturing Government Security Awareness Phishing 117

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. ” continues the report.

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Phishing Insurance Manufacturing Banking 138

The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. It is headquartered in Zurich, with a U.S

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Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Banking 166

Heimadal Security

JUNE 21, 2022

To obtain Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook credentials, a new phishing operation has been targeting U.S. firms in the military, security software, manufacturing supply chain, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors. The newly-uncovered operation, according […].

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Phishing Manufacturing Healthcare Software 119

SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

Additionally, a distributed workforce, ranging from remote maintenance technicians to cabin crews, multiplies entry points for social-engineering tactics like phishing. Employee training is paramount as staff awareness can thwart phishing and social-engineering attempts before any significant damage occurs.

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Computers and Electronics Risk 116

Bleeping Computer

JULY 1, 2024

BleepingComputer has verified that the helpdesk portal of a router manufacturer is currently sending MetaMask phishing emails in response to newly filed support tickets, in what appears to be a compromise. [.]

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Phishing Manufacturing 98

Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

In this new instance of the campaign, the threat actor has targeted users in US-based organizations in specific verticals including software security, US military, security solution providers, healthcare / pharmaceutical, and the manufacturing supply chain. Figure 7: Captcha displayed by the phishing page. Key points. URL analysis.

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Phishing Social Engineering Manufacturing Healthcare 128

Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Threat actors use EvilProxy phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit to target senior executives in the U.S. in massive phishing campaigns. It mainly targets companies in the banking, financial services, insurance, real estate, and manufacturing sectors.

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Phishing Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing 105

Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The group has extended its operations to countries in Asia and targets various sectors, including healthcare, real estate, construction, IT, food, and manufacturing.” ” reads a report published by Halcyon.

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Ransomware Hacking Social Engineering Manufacturing 105

SecureList

MAY 3, 2021

Banking phishing: new version of an old scheme. Clients of several Dutch banks faced a phishing attack using QR codes. The links in their messages took the victim to a well-designed phishing pages with official emblems, business language and references to relevant laws. Quarterly highlights. Vaccine with cyberthreat.

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Phishing Banking Accountability Computers and Electronics 137

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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Phishing Cybercrime Manufacturing Hacking 134

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Following a successful debut in November 2022, Matter is picking up steam, Nelson told me. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.

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Manufacturing Authentication Marketing Encryption 276

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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Ransomware Encryption Backups Manufacturing 359

The Hacker News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has confirmed a data breach that led to the exposure of what it said is "low-sensitivity and semi-public information." "The The data was confirmed not from the cloud but likely originated from an old D-View 6 system, which reached its end of life as early as 2015," the company said.

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Data breaches Phishing Manufacturing 137

Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2023

Plug X and other information-stealing remote-access Trojans are among the malware targeting networking, manufacturing, and logistics companies in Taiwan.

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Phishing Manufacturing Malware 119

Bleeping Computer

JULY 1, 2024

BleepingComputer has verified that the helpdesk portal of a router manufacturer is currently sending MetaMask phishing emails in response to newly filed support tickets, in what appears to be a compromise. [.]

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Phishing Manufacturing Hacking 82

Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Download your free copy of the 2022 ThreatLabz Phishing Report, and check out our infographic. For decades, phishing has been a complex and time-consuming challenge for every security team. Avoiding the latest breed of phishing attacks requires heightened awareness from users, additional context, and a zero trust approach.

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Phishing Retail Architecture Risk 115

Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A recent report by Unit 42 researchers has uncovered an extensive phishing campaign targeting European companies, with the automotive, chemical, and industrial compound manufacturing sectors among the hardest hit.

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Phishing Manufacturing Cybersecurity 82

Trend Micro

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Based on our survey of over 900 ICS security leaders in the United States, Germany, and Japan, we dig deeper into each industry's challenges and present Trend Micro's recommendations.

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Manufacturing Cybersecurity Cyber threats IoT 113

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Conducting regular training sessions on recognizing phishing emails, avoiding suspicious downloads, and following cybersecurity protocols can build a resilient workforce. Sophisticated adversaries: Nation-state actors, cybercriminals, and hacktivists are leveraging advanced tactics to target this sector.

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Energy and Utilities IoT Backups Artificial Intelligence 109

Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Key Findings During the reporting period (August 1, 2024January 31, 2025), the manufacturing sector faced a turbulent threat landscape: Attackers ramped up their abuse of remote external services software, used impersonating domains for targeted spearphishing attacks, and continued to target the sector with ransomware.

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Manufacturing Cyber threats Ransomware Phishing 66

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 28, 2023

In May 2023, a phishing campaign was launched that targeted a major U.S. energy company, as well as organizations in other industries, such as finance, insurance, manufacturing, and technology. This phishing scam is a reminder of the dangers of QR codes. Report it as a phish, delete, or ignore.

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Phishing Scams Mobile Media 101

Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group targeted dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide with Microsoft Teams phishing attacks. Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that the cyberspies conducted highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chat.

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Phishing Authentication Social Engineering Government 98

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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Phishing Energy and Utilities Insurance Manufacturing 98

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

How cars became the worst product category for privacy Session Covers the extensive data collection (and subsequent sharing with car manufacturers and their affiliates) enabled by modern vehicles; they can collect way beyond location data. Additionally, threat actors have been using HTML smuggling to deliver XWorm malware.

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Surveillance Malware Data breaches Scams 97

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Dropbox recently announced it had been the target of a phishing attack that resulted in the threat actor(s) accessing some code the company had stored on GitHub. What happened in the Dropbox phishing attack? Like many persistent phishing campaigns, this eventually worked, and the threat actor copied 130 Dropbox code repositories.

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Phishing Passwords Social Engineering Accountability 98

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. A now-deleted Tweet from Synoptek on Dec.

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Ransomware Financial Services Media Phishing 238

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

BlackTech Cyber Espionage APT group linked to Chinese intelligence was found distributing Flagpro in two stages via Phishing emails. It first targeted the manufacturing segments of computing devices and tried its best to get into the network and then to the newly manufactured products.

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Malware Manufacturing Media Phishing 132

Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Key Findings ReliaQuest recently responded to a manufacturing sector breach involving phishing and data exfiltration. The attackers used phishing and evasion techniques commonly associated with the Black Basta ransomware group. This figure aligns with the 2024 average and a marks 22% faster speed compared to 2023.

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Phishing Accountability Social Engineering Data breaches 112