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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).
As of February 2025, Medusa developers and affiliates have impacted over 300 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors with affected industries including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing.” Victims can additionally pay $10,000 USD in cryptocurrency to add a day to the countdown timer.
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As the report starkly states: "The three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilitiesacross every single industry." Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. Threat actors aren't brute-forcing their way inthey're logging in through the front door.
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The campaign began in June 2022 and is still ongoing, the attacks hit organizations in multiple industries, such as Automotive, Chemicals Manufacturing, and others. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. That’s not all. ” concludes the report.
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This is particularly notable in the case of Lazarus APT, specifically its attacks against cryptocurrency investors in May. In general, we’ve observed hacktivists in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict become more skilled and more focused on attacking large organizations such as government, manufacturing and energy entities.
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Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. This includes the Billtrust and German manufacturer, Pilz, ransomware infections. Implement good email phishing/SPAM filtering to help filter out obvious malicious SPAM emails with infected links, attachments, and other files.
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Another victim in which the same chain was exhibited is a computer game manufacturer in Cambodia, where the attack could have been used for a different purpose, possibly to infiltrate the company’s supply chain. The attack targets victims with spear-phishing emails containing malicious OOXML files.
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Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.
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