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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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Threat actors are targeting the education, government and business services sectors with a remote access trojan called NetSupport RAT.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 5, 2021

Seeking to take advantage of out-of-work users, malware groups continue to use LinkedIn and business services to offer fictional jobs and deliver infections instead.

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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.

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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.

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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. Victims of the group are located in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. .

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 22, 2022

Nearly 2,000 Signal users affected by Twilio phishing attack. $6 How IT teams can prevent phishing attacks with Malwarebytes DNS filtering. Business Services industry targeted across the country for backdoor access. Google issues patch for zero-day spotted in the wild. 6 million heist targets video game skin trading site.

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