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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Strengthening identity security Enforce phishing-resistant MFA for all privileged accounts. Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering. Patching and vulnerability management Apply timely security updates to operating systems, software, and firmware.

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Full(z) House Magecart group mix phishing and MiTM in its attacks

Security Affairs

A group under the Magecart umbrella adopted a new tactic that leverages on MiTM and phishing attacks to target sites using external payment processors. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. The name Fullz House comes from two different attack techniques, the phishing, and the web skimming.

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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 early October, the Ukrainian surveillance team said they’d lost him,” he wrote.

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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. For $200, vetted users could hire his botnet to blast one million emails containing malware or ads for male enhancement drugs.

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Five Ways Spear Phishing Tactics are Evolving in 2025

Security Boulevard

What type of phishing became very effective around 2010 and still worries security teams today? Spear phishing. Spear phishing remains highly effective and is getting more dangerous by the day. What is spear phishing? What new technologies and methods will attackers use to get around common defenses?

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Crooks target US universities with malware used by nation-state actors

Security Affairs

Several US universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks aimed at delivering malware previously used by China-linked APT groups. Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. SecurityAffairs – US universities, phishing).

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The Unsexy Threat to Election Security

Krebs on Security

The report notes that concerns about the security of these channels is hardly theoretical: In 2010, intruders hijacked ACRE’s election results Web page, and in 2016, cyber thieves successfully breached several county employee email accounts in a spear-phishing attack.

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