Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. 1 – Example of Phishing Page Delivered by Azure Front Door (AFD).

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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 landing pages are phishing pages that impersonate legitimate companies.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

” Organized cybercrime gangs that coordinate unlimited attacks typically do so by hacking or phishing their way into a bank or payment card processor. million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017.

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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

JULY 9, 2019

The malware samples shared by USCYBERCOM last week were first detected in December 2016 in attacks attributed to Iran-linked APT33. Last week the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) uploaded to VirusTotal a malware used by Iran-linked APT33 group in attacks in Dec 2016 and Jan 2017. SecurityAffairs – USCYBERCOM, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Experts reported that since April, the Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to spread LockBit Black ransomware. Phishing Reporting : Report phishing emails and other malicious cyber activities to relevant authorities like the FBI’s IC3 and the NJCCIC.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Security experts say both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink are the work of a hacking group known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear , the same Russian team blamed for disrupting Ukraine’s electricity in 2015. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. federal agencies like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab (39) for multi-year hacking campaign targeting U.S. 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. ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

A hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin targeted thousands of journalists, advocacy groups, and politicians worldwide over 7 years. “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.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 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

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. The Hancitor malware is distributed through phishing emails, or using compromised credentials, exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, or legitimate Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) tools to gain initial access to a victim’s network.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

TrickGate is a shellcode-based packer offered as a service, which is used at least since July 2016, to hide malware from defense programs. The attack chain observed by the experts can vary significantly, but in most cases, threat actors used phishing messages with malicious attachments or malicious links. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. The Russian criminal was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

Security researchers at Cofense have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers distributing a new remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as WSH RAT. Within five days, WSH RAT was observed being actively distributed via phishing. SecurityAffairs – WSH Remote Access Trojan, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. On Friday, Starwood Properties, which merged with Marriott in 2016, disclosed as many as 500 million people who made reservations at their hotels may have had their personal information accessed in a breach that lasted as long as four years. Satya Gupta, CTO and Co-founder, Virsec: Gupta.

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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 National Bank said the first breach began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. million total.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Federal officials charged that Liberty Reserve facilitated a “broad range of criminal activity, including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking.” Requests for this information from the Justice Department office that prosecuted the case — the U.S.

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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

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. But he denied ever participating in illegal hacking activities.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 16, 2019

The two were able to hack into the SEC's computer systems due to phishing attacks that stole credentials and spread malware.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2018

Suspected hacking groups Dragonfly and Energetic Bear infiltrated their targets using common methods including spear-phishing and watering-hole attacks. elections in 2016. Russian hackers have successfully infiltrated the control system rooms of U.S. Read the Wall Street Journal’s initial report here.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Threat actors have devised a new trick to disable macro security warning that leverage non-malicious docs in phishing attacks. Most of the phishing attacks leverage weaponized Microsoft Office documents and social engineering techniques to trick recipients into enabling the macros. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

Russia-linked APT28 group hacked into Roundcube email servers belonging to multiple Ukrainian organizations. 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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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. “It is believed that the malware was deployed as a result of several phishing attempts.” ” Experts believe the attackers launched phishing attacks in the attempt of delivering PoS malware. ” continues the analysis.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against three members of Lazarus Group for a wide range of financially-motivated hacks against private businesses that authorities said were designed to steal $1.3 The post Three North Korean hackers charged for financial and revenge-motivated hacks appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

Microsoft revealed that Russian cyberspies attempted to hack at least three 2018 midterm election candidates and it has helped the US government to repeal their attacks. “And we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all standing for election in the midterm elections.”

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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. SecurityAffairs – APT28, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

The threat actors used the botnet harvest credentials, collect NTLMv2 digests, proxy network traffic, and host spear-phishing landing pages and custom tools. The Moobot botnet has been active since at least 2016, it also includes other routers and virtual private servers (VPS). ” reported Trend Micro.

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