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Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. I look at this and think, would I be more likely to type my password into a box or more likely to click a button that says ‘okay’?”

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

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