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Misconfigured AWS Accounts Are Fueling Phishing Campaigns

eSecurity Planet

The attackers, identified as TGR-UNK-0011, or JavaGhost, leverage exposed AWS credentials to gain access to cloud accounts and use legitimate services like Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and WorkMail to distribute phishing messages. Setting up SES and WorkMail accounts to send phishing emails that appear legitimate.

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Twitter Exposes Personal Information for 5.4 Million Accounts

Schneier on Security

million accounts. In January 2022, we received a report through our bug bounty program of a vulnerability in Twitter’s systems. In July 2022, we learned through a press report that someone had potentially leveraged this and was offering to sell the information they had compiled. This includes anonymous accounts.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2022 Edition

Krebs on Security

The company said it would roll out the changes in stages between April and June 2022. Microsoft Office by default warns users that enabling macros in untrusted documents is a security risk, but those warnings can be easily disabled with the click of button.

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Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

Krebs on Security

consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims has become more the exception than the rule. The findings came in a report released by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),

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GUEST ESSAY: Why the arrests of cyber criminals in 2021 will incentize attackers in 2022

The Last Watchdog

In 2022 we expect to see more aggressive and complex ransomware efforts. If 2021 was the year that Zero Trust security reached mainstream IT — and it was — then 2022 will become the realization that it cannot be done without identity first. Central importance of identity. The ascendency of CISOs.

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Scammer robs homebuyers of life savings in $20 million theft spree

Malwarebytes

Employees of these companies were tricked into clicking malicious attachments and links and filling in their email account login information on fake sites. From calendar years 2020 to 2022, there was a 27% increase in victim reports to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of BECs with a real estate nexus.

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Threat Spotlight: Credential Theft vs. Admin Control—Two Devastating Paths to VPN Exploitation

Digital Shadows

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. Editors note: This report was authored by Gautham Ashok & Alexa Feminella. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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