Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2023

I'm yet to see a single good argument that is likely to have real world consequences as far as phishing goes and whilst I understand the sentiment surrounding the confusion new TLDs with common file types, all "the sky is falling" commentary I've seen is speculative at best. Book a demo. Want to see for yourself?

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to cybersecurity, phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Phishing has evolved,” says Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at Sophos. These days phishing emails often lead to ransomware, crypto jacking, or data theft. But it is still incredibly hard to defend against. The reason?

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In a digital age teeming with cyber threats, FortiGuard Labs recently identified an email phishing campaign that spread MrAnon Stealer malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. ua-passport[.]space space and id[.]bigmir[.]space.

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We Live Security

JULY 3, 2024

From sending phishing emails to posting fake listings, here’s how fraudsters hunt for victims while you’re booking your well-earned vacation

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Hot for Security

MARCH 1, 2021

The UK has been dealing with some of the harshest lockdown restrictions since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, and many citizens are looking forward to booking a much-needed vacation. Remember, if a deal sounds too good to be true, it usually is.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians. that are easier for computers to manage.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. Statistics: phishing. In phishing terms, Q2 2021 was fairly uneventful. Geography of phishing attacks. Top-level domains.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Recent reports have indicated that there is an active phishing campaign faking a message from the UK' s National Health Service (NHS) telling people they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 related phishing emails. Reaction to phishing scams. This has resulted in many of those targeted falling for the scam.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 6, 2022

An Italian man allegedly involved in a multi-year scheme to fraudulently obtain hundreds of prepublication manuscripts was arrested on Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York. [.].

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to George Finney, it could be the difference between getting hacked through a phishing link or not. Her results from testing more than 400 users showed that frowning increased the odds for weeding out phishing emails. His new book. Not only a knowledgeable expert in cybersecurity, Finney has now authored four books.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2022

Fresh reports are in that a hacking group possibly funded by North Korea Intelligence has been strategically targeting South Korean citizens through phishing emails urging recipients to book appointments for a newly developed corona vaccine that is countering a novel strain of Coronavirus that has sent almost half of Beijing into a lock-down again.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

There are additional safety measures you can (and should) take to teach your child as they grow, things like installing virus protection, enabling multi-factor authentication, using password managers, and raising awareness about phishing scams. Make it a family conversation. If interested in learning more email info@wateringcanpress.com.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 13, 2025

Microsoft has shed light on an ongoing phishing campaign that targeted the hospitality sector by impersonating online travel agency Booking.com using an increasingly popular social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver credential-stealing malware.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 22, 2021

Through phishing. What’s phishing again?” Phishing is a specific type of cyber attack through which hackers and scammers use email to trick you. There are a number of ways that a person or a company can become the victim of a phishing attack. Whale attacks Take a page from Vegas’ book. How does an attack happen?”

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

In our most recent Remote Sessions webcast, Roger Grimes, computer security expert and Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4, gave a deep dive on phishing and how to properly mitigate and prevent phishing attacks. What is phishing? Also known as spamming, phishing is typically done through email, SMS, and phone attacks.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Insecure stores, whether compromised as part of an inside job or a phishing attack, are a big problem for both buyers and the store itself when the attack comes to light. From ATO Deputy Commissioner John Ford : These dodgy sales suppression tools allow retailers to keep a separate set of books and launder the money in one transaction.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 31, 2023

How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams IdentityIQ The holiday season brings joy, celebrations, and… a surge in online scams. While you’re shopping for gifts or booking flights, hackers are plotting to trick you into revealing your personal details and financial information. What Is a Phishing Scam? Their goal?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The researchers noticed that the “Send to Kindle” feature allows Kindle users to send e-books to their devices as email attachments, a behavior that could be potentially exploited for malicious purposes, for example sending a malicious e-book to potential victims. To my pleasant surprise, the e-book appeared on the device!

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

More Phishing Attacks. Phishing may seem like an ordinary part of online life, but it could also be the initial volley in a major cyberattack. Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). It may look just like the real thing.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

.” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 11, 2020

but seriously, telephone books are still a thing here) I've gone down a serious IoT rabbit hole. Find out how it works and what you can do about it.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2021

I have to be aware that phishing scams may be used against me. The second problem is that you don't need a data breach to get spam, unsolicited phone calls or phishes. Spam, unsolicited phone calls and phishes don't just come from data breaches and it's enormously difficult to reliably attribute them back to a source.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 26, 2021

Fraudsters impersonating UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are actively exploiting the COVID-19 vaccination campaign to dupe citizens into providing their personal information through various phishing emails. This is so difficult especially when we read we may be contacted to book via email, text or letter.”.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

In a scheme reminiscent of some sort of comic book supervillain, Filippo Bernadini was arrested at JKF International Airport on Wednesday. Throwing the book at crime. These are common phishing tactics used by regular phishers, but here we can see it being deployed in a more targeted fashion. Can I have your next book, please?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. Another hijacked Sitting Duck domain — anti-phishing[.]org Image: Shutterstock.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Researchers at Perception Point recently documented a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting hotels and travel agencies. The first stage of the attack typically sees the attackers send a query about a booking or make a reservation. Do not send information that the booked accommodation should already have or shouldn't need at all.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 26, 2021

Bad actors will ramp up online attacks as more people book vacations post-pandemic. The post Booking a vacation for the first time in a while? The post Booking a vacation for the first time in a while? Is that a scam or a real offer from a business in need?

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A new report from OSINTMATTER has detailed a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Booking.com, a leading online travel reservation platform.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Related: How ‘XDR’ defeats silos Now along comes a new book, Evading EDR: The Definitive Guide for Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems , by a red team expert, Matt Hand, that drills down a premier legacy security system that is in the midst of this transition: endpoint detection and response, EDR. Hand: I don’t believe so.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 30, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: Who’s hiring, freezing, and laying off, models predict 100-200K US deaths, April distancing, Adversarial Capital, Booz Russia, Google State Phishes, Worker Monitoring, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… .

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

The spear phishing emails are warning people that use websites, social networks, instant messengers and VPN services that have been banned by the Russian Government and that criminal charges will be laid. Spear phishing as the main initial infection vector. ???????? ???????????? ?????????? ????????? (A Figure 1: Phishing template.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. A search in Google for a string of text from that script turns up a December 2023 blog post from cryptocurrency security firm SlowMist about phishing attacks on Telegram from North Korean state-sponsored hackers. ” Image: SlowMist.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

site that helps him manage more than 500 scam properties and interactions with up to 100 (soon-to-be-scammed) “guests” looking to book the fake listings. But when the interested party inquires about the listing, they are sent a link to a site that looks like Airbnb.com but which is actually a phishing page.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

The attackers first disable protections for running macro scripts in Outlook then deploy the code to send phishing messages to the victim’s contacts. “One tool, a VBA macro targeting Microsoft Outlook, uses the target’s email account to send spearphishing emails to contacts in the victim’s Microsoft Office address book.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

One such fraud that the security researchers of Kaspersky have discovered is the spread of malicious files and phishing attacks via email and mobile SMS. However, on the negative side, some fraudsters are using the name of the movie and are trying to fox online users by luring them into various cyber frauds.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. In addition, even simple training or quizzes on how to spot a phishing attack will help individuals to avoid being caught up in a scam or a potential attack. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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