Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

How does this fake vendor fair scam work? The fake organisers create brand new Facebook accounts, and often reuse the same name across muliple profiles. The really interesting thing about all this is that fake fair scams aren’t some weird anomaly. A brief history of fake fair scamming. Targeting the visitors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Experts spotted a new targeted phishing campaign that leverages a new obfuscation technique based on the Morse code to hide malicious URLs in an email attachment and bypass secure mail gateways and mail filters. The Morse code encodes each letter and number in a series of dots and dashes.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

So this FAKE ACCOUNT. — Martin Lewis (@MartinSLewis) April 3, 2023 This is a screenshot of the fake account in question. The fake account sports 25.7k Here's the real Martin Lewis while running a checkmark focused extension: Here's the fake Martin Lewis while running the same extension: The difference is clear.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

Is it fake news? CVE-2022-0492 flaw in Linux Kernel cgroups feature allows container escape Charities and NGOs providing support in Ukraine hit by malware. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. Users were instructed to activate an invitation to a (fake) webinar by logging in.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

Threat actors created fake login pages for each organization and sent spear-phishing messages to nuclear scientists in an attempt to trick them into providing their passwords. In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

» Related Stories Podcast Episode 115: Joe Grand on Unicorn Spotting and Bloomberg’s Supply Chain Story Before Senate Facebook, Twitter Defend Efforts to Stop Fake News Research: Russian Disinformation Campaigns Target African Americans. See also: Before Senate Facebook, Twitter Defend Efforts to Stop Fake News.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By the early 2000s, charity had become a common scam topic: for example, after the massive Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, users received messages from fake charities pleading for donations. An inattentive user could easily mistake a fake for a genuine bank or payment system website.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file. 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.

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Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 105

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But the SOP does not limit javascript code, and the HTML <script> tag is allowed to load Javascript code from any origin. It happens when the attacker tricks the application into writing fake entries in your log files. Attackers can make use of the new line character to insert new entries into application logs.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The skimmers read the details as users type them into the sites’ payment forms, or replace the payment forms with convincing fakes. Can you spot the fake? The good news is that you can seriously sharpen up your password game by avoiding a few bad habits: Bad passwords. The fake checkout is on the left.

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Scary Beasts Security

MAY 5, 2017

For what it’s worth, the woeful state of WebKit packaging on Linux was discussed in Feb 2016 in this blog post , which was picked up by Linux Weekly News. u.asInt64 & TagMask); } Where tag() returns the latter 4 bytes of the value, CellTag==0xfffffffb and TagMask==0xffff000000000002. Fake the JSUint8Array object.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Our EDR ( Endpoint Detection and Response ) solution helps to identify attacks in the early stages by marking suspicious actions with special IoA (Indicators of Attack) tags and by creating corresponding alerts. Fake ad blocker, with miner included. You can read our analysis of a new adware program called Convuster here.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The Daily Beast ‘s Kevin Poulsen broke the news last week that federal authorities in Alaska indicted Kenneth Currin Schuchman of Washington on two counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by using malware to damage computers between August and November 2017. They were under attack from a new Mirai variant.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, improved response time and on-site work will come with higher price tags, and many organizations cannot afford the most responsive service. Just keep in mind that reports can also be faked, so consider a clause in the contract to punish vendors for fraudulent assurances. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, improved response time and on-site work will come with higher price tags, and many organizations cannot afford the most responsive service. Just keep in mind that reports can also be faked, so consider a clause in the contract to punish vendors for fraudulent assurances. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Karkadann is a threat actor that has been targeting government bodies and news outlets in the Middle East since at least October 2020. On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced that a North Korean-related threat actor had targeted security researchers.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Fu: So, yes, it's part of the threat model and from that you can actually drive some good news. Vamosi: The good news is that what we’re talking about today isn’t yet in the realm of active threats so there’s plenty of time to work out the mitigations. Or using sound to fake FitBit steps, or disable your hard drive.

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Hacking Computers and Electronics Manufacturing Engineering 52

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Fu: So, yes, it's part of the threat model and from that you can actually drive some good news. Vamosi: The good news is that what we’re talking about today isn’t yet in the realm of active threats so there’s plenty of time to work out the mitigations. Or using sound to fake FitBit steps, or disable your hard drive.

Hacking 52

Hacking Computers and Electronics Manufacturing Engineering 52

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Fu: So, yes, it's part of the threat model and from that you can actually drive some good news. Vamosi: The good news is that what we’re talking about today isn’t yet in the realm of active threats so there’s plenty of time to work out the mitigations. Or using sound to fake FitBit steps, or disable your hard drive.

Hacking 52

Hacking Computers and Electronics Manufacturing Engineering 52

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To ensnare users, bad actors publish sketchy news with well thought out structures of tags and keywords that correspond to hot topics. However, instead of opening the expected posts, these links lead to pages that push fake giveaways or a booby-trapped Flash Player update. Both of the above examples are proofs of concept.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

This appears to be precisely what the file name suggests - statuses posted to Gab. And the trend just continues. Gab isn't a free speech alternative to incumbent tech behemoths with a rich collection of wide-ranging views, rather it's an echo chamber of the same political, religious and scientific opinions.

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