Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cybercriminals are abusing Facebook ads in a large-scale phishing scam aimed at stealing victims’ login credentials. Threat actors are using Facebook ads to redirect users to Github accounts hosting phishing pages used to steal victims’ login credentials. The first phishing page was created in GitHub 5 months ago.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

Crooks are using a fake Cisco “critical security advisory” in a new phishing campaign aimed at stealing victims’ Webex credentials. The Cofense’s phishing defense center has uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign that uses a Cisco security advisory related to a critical vulnerability as a lure. name=CVE-2016-9223.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Donot Team (aka APT-C-35 and Origami Elephant) has been active since 2016, it focuses ongovernment and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. ” reads the report published by CYFIRMA.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible.

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The State of Security

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro , India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant , new evidence suggests. Image: urlscan.io.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Election 2016 campaign in terms of malicious activity and offer practical and relevant including actionable threat intelligence on their whereabouts. Elections 2016 campaign: linuxkrnl[.]net. accounts-qooqle[.]com. account-gooogle[.]com. account-yahoo[.]com. accounts-googlc[.]com. accounts-qooqle[.]com.

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Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Over the course of March, 2016–March, 2017, we identify 788,000 potential victims of off-theshelf keyloggers; 12.4 million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9 Drawing upon Google as a case study, we find 7–25% of exposed passwords match a victim’s Google account.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts used by election officials at the state and local level. “I hope that doesn’t happen, but politicians are regular people who use the same tools we use.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The indictments unsealed in a Pennsylvania court this week stem from a slew of cyber heists carried out between October 2015 and December 2016. 2016 by a similar international law enforcement action. 2016, Kapkanov fired an assault rifle at Ukrainian police who were trying to raid his apartment. Prosecutors say Nikolov, a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. Indeed, perhaps this enterprising Nigerian scammer is just keeping up with current trends.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

.” The government says from 2006 until the service’s takedown, Liberty Reserve processed an estimated 55 million financial transactions worth more than $6 billion, with more than 600,000 accounts associated with users in the United States alone. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — went unanswered.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

Google this week announced that it is going to block login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) phishing attacks. “However, one form of phishing, known as “ man in the middle ” (MITM), is hard to detect when an embedded browser framework (e.g., Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

Security researchers from Microsoft have uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign that uses HTTPS proxying techniques to hijack Office 365 accounts. According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), BEC attacks have led to over $43 billion in losses between June 2016 and December 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company. Security firm Symantec , which acquired LifeLock in November 2016 for $2.3 million customer accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards. million total.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some crafty phishing email examples are those emails from your mom, your bank or your boss that require a prompt response… especially the ones from your boss (sorry mom). These phishing email examples may seem a little far-fetched, but they do happen, and happen quite often. Magnolia Health Corporation: CEO Gone Phishing.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). SPAMMY BEAR.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Sandworm also has been implicated in the “ Industroyer ” malware attacks on Ukraine’s power grid in December 2016, as well as the 2016 global malware contagion “ NotPetya, ” which crippled companies worldwide using an exploit believed to have been developed by and then stolen from the U.S. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said given the entities compromised — and that only a handful of known compromises occurred outside of France — there’s a strong possibility this was the result of an orchestrated phishing campaign targeting French infrastructure firms. There is a third Skype account nicknamed “Fatal.001”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks, the recent mass scanning activity represents a change in the modus operandi of the group. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since 2016 , Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state activity, now the IT giant added the same service to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects all of Office 365 against advanced threats like business email compromise and credential phishing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

According to DoJ, from at least in or about 2016 through or about April 2021, Nasab and other co-conspirators carried out a coordinated multi-year campaign to breach computers worldwide. Nasab and other conspirators used spear phishing and other hacking techniques to infect more than 200,000 victim devices. ” continues the DoJ.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

Related: Why not train employees as phishing cops? What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Thousands local elections remain at high risk.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

According to researchers at Citizen Lab, more than 10,000 victim email accounts were targeted. “A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.” ” reported the Reuters agency. ” continues the report.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Marketplace was introduced by Facebook in 2016 and quickly became a popular platform to sell items to local buyers. Depending on the buyer of the leaked data, both the email addresses and the phone numbers could be used in phishing attacks. Set up a PIN or password on your cellular account.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The experts observed the APT deploying Headlace in three distinct phases from April to December 2023, respectively, using phishing, compromised internet services, and living off the land binaries. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. Or maybe they’re groomed in order to set up a bank account for their lovers.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

This particular scheme had been rumbling along since “at least” 2016, and the accused individual worked in the publishing industry. According to the FBI, multiple fake email accounts were created, impersonating real people in the publishing space. Not only that, but also publishing houses and talent agencies. Nice award.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. E-commerce-related phishing continued to exceed banking-related phishing, as it did in 2020, making up 17.6%

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