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Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Schneier on Security

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post.

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Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

As of this birthday, I’ve officially been an independent investigative journalist for longer than I was a reporter for The Washington Post (1995-2009). Being Used to Phish So Many of US? But I do want to thank you all for your continued readership, encouragement and support, without which I could not do what I do.

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Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva

Krebs on Security

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. In the chat below, “lucky12345” is the Zeus author Bogachev: tank: Are you there?

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How To Protect Against A Phishing Attack And How To Counter Them

SiteLock

In this week’s post, we take a look at “in-the-wild” phishing attacks and talk about how to protect against a phishing attack and how to counter them. Phishing Attack Examples. Here are two examples of phishing attacks that were carried out. Data URI and phishing page. We don’t want that. Gee, thanks, Kyle.

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Stealing More SRE Ideas for Your SOC

Anton on Security

By the way, this is why the most common starter SOAR playbook is about phishing, a major time-suck of many aspiring SOCs (I’ve heard one spent 40% of analyst time on phishing response and that was after the email security gateway did its work). So people often point out that the value of automation is about saving time. Guess what?

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Operation Lyrebird: Group-IB assists INTERPOL in identifying suspect behind numerous cybercrimes worldwide

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.