Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

G7 Finance ministers expressed concern on Tuesday over the rise in ransomware attacks during the Covid-19 pandemic, including some involving cryptocurrencies. Experts are observing a significant increase in the number of Ransomware attacks against hospitals, financial institutions, schools, and other critical infrastructure in G7 countries.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

A phishing campaign employing QR codes targeted a leading energy company in the US, cybersecurity firm Cofense reported. “Beginning in May 2023, Cofense has observed a large phishing campaign utilizing QR codes targeting the Microsoft credentials of users from a wide array of industries.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services).

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And the targets in this case are widespread: banks, ATMs, cryptocurrency exchanges, online casinos, movie studios such as Sony Pictures, and theater chains such as AMC. million from an Indonesian cryptocurrency company in September 2018; and $11.8 million from an Indonesian cryptocurrency company in September 2018; and $11.8

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Attackers are becoming more organized, with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations providing easy access to malicious tools for even novice cybercriminals. Current cybersecurity trends show that attackers are now targeting critical infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services, leading to massive disruptions.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. In this research, by financial malware we mean several types of malevolent software. Financial phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“Over the past few months, we’ve seen actors provide access to services that call victims, appear as a legitimate call from a specific bank and deceive victims into typing an OTP or other verification code into a mobile phone in order to capture and deliver the codes to the operator,” the Intel 471 researchers wrote.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Restoration is offered in exchange for a ransom, usually in cryptocurrencies.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. Likewise, lookalike and spoofed web domains and well-crafted phishing emails now easily trick employees into thinking they’re dealing with trustworthy sources.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to a report published by Kaspersky Lab in January 2020, in the two years the North Korea-linked APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. In August, F-Secure Labs experts observed a spear-phishing campaign targeting an organization in the cryptocurrency industry.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch Cancer Center New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN decentralized P2P network protocol Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz Multiple flaws in pfSense firewall can lead to arbitrary code execution BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware Gangs Spotted (..)

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

BlueNoroff group is a financially motivated threat actor eager to profit from its cyberattack capabilities. We have published technical details of how this notorious group steals cryptocurrency before. Japanese multinational banking and financial services. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Mizuho Financial Group.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This allows the threat actors to harvest login credentials for banking applications and other financial services. The target apps include banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and crypto exchanges. It sends the harvested data to the attacker.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

CISA is warning about a spear-phishing campaign that spreads malicious RDP files. 1 - CISA: Beware of nasty spear-phishing campaign Proactively restrict outbound remote-desktop protocol (RDP) connections. 1 - CISA: Beware of nasty spear-phishing campaign Proactively restrict outbound remote-desktop protocol (RDP) connections.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. Also, cryptocurrencies allow these attackers to collect their ransoms with almost anonymity.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Recently, New York State’s Department of Financial Services issued a memorandum providing guidance to the insurance industry to help stabilize and safeguard the cyber insurance market. Extortion payment policy reform: Cryptocurrency has fueled the growth of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Large businesses appear to be affected, including FxPro Direct App – a trading platform with over five million installs on Google Play alone – and Europcar, a vehicle rental service with over one million installs on Google Play. Onfido, a London-based company, offers photo-based IDV services for businesses. Looming dangers.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Initially perceived as a phishing campaign orchestrated by the EvilNum group, recent analyses by cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS have reclassified DarkCasino as an advanced persistent threat (APT). In a recent cybersecurity revelation, a formidable and highly sophisticated cyber threat has surfaced, going by the name DarkCasino.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. Healthcare and financial services are the most attacked industries. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. Ransomware facts.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Attackers are becoming more organized, with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations providing easy access to malicious tools for even novice cybercriminals. Current cybersecurity trends show that attackers are now targeting critical infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services, leading to massive disruptions.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. terminal services, virtual private networks (VPNs), and remote desktops—often use weak passwords and do not require MFA. Attackers guess the passwords easily, find them in open source code repositories, or collect them via phishing.

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SecureList

MAY 1, 2023

Can ChatGPT detect phishing links? We work on applying machine learning technologies to cybersecurity tasks, specifically models that analyze websites to detect threats such as phishing. live/login.php Yes, it is likely a phishing attempt. Is it phishing? Please explain why.

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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. Cybercriminals also faked emails from cloud services in schemes aimed at stealing not accounts but money. Statistics: phishing.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. Meanwhile, cryptocurrency became a prominent target for those seeking monetary gain. Now we see that APT actors have also switched to crypto.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). In its new report, the New York State Department of Financial Services says the cyberattack and resulting bitcoin scam netted the teen hackers at least $118,000.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The rise of AI-driven phishing and social engineering, increased targeting of critical infrastructure, and the emergence of more sophisticated fileless malware are all trends that have shaped the cybersecurity battlefield this year. By August 2024, RansomHub had breached at least 210 victims across various critical U.S.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Some not only blindly facilitate the criminal norms of the cryptocurrency marketplace, but their law firms also blithely encourage cryptocurrency transactions by accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for their legal services. This last point about lawyers and cryptocurrency hits home and bothers me the most. Would a U.S.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself.

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