SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed charges against five individuals accused of orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns tied to the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group. As this case shows, phishing and hacking has become increasingly sophisticated and can result in enormous losses.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. GhostPulse), and other forms of phishing campaigns. The researchers did not observe newer variants utilizing older methods. .”Once

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

The group targeted the organization with phishing attacks aimed at spreading at least three new sophisticated malware strains. The phishing messages include links to a malicious website that serves the malware, experts pointed out that the emails had subject lines that were customized for each targeted organization. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. The threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks using spoofed email addresses. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Balikbayan Foxes). ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Threats increased between Q3 and Q4 at more than half (54%) of the organizations surveyed, with financial services (61%) and high-tech/business services (57%) reporting the highest rate of increase. Phishing remained the most frequent threat. We had a minor phishing breach through hosted email,” said another U.S.

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Threatpost

MARCH 25, 2020

Marriage, divorce and death certificates, beneficiary info, passports and more were all caught up in an email takeover hack.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2020

This specialized team hunts down major cybersecurity threats, including tracking nation-state hacking groups. saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing. When SecureWorld covered Russia's hack of the DNC, we noted that Russia used similar tactics in 2016.

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