Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

The alleged perpetrator, who turned out to be a citizen of Morocco, was arrested in May by the Moroccan police based on the data about his cybercrimes that was provided by Group-IB. Almost each of the scripts contained in the phishing kit had its creator’s nickname, Dr HeX, and contact email address.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2022

There are several types of phishing attacks, which are just one form of cybercrime. . A phishing attack takes place when a criminal pretends to be someone they’re not to trick people into giving over their personal information, such as their credit card details. Email phishing is also known as deception phishing.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ESET detailed a flaw that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot in UEFI systems Russia-linked APT Star Blizzard targets WhatsApp accounts Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach Clop Ransomware exploits Cleo File Transfer flaw: dozens (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Netscout’s ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. Cobalt hackers leverage spear-phishing emails to compromise target systems, messages spoof emails from financial institutions or a financial supplier/partner. The phishing message includes two malicious links.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Researchers warn of an attack vector in the DNS, called the Sitting Ducks, that exposes over a million domains to hackers’ takeover. Researchers from Eclypsium and Infoblox have identified an attack vector in the domain name system (DNS), dubbed the Sitting Ducks attack. ” continues the report.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. CyberCrime Tracker. Recorded Future.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Thankfully, nearly all malware depends on DNS at some point in their kill chain, making the protocol a critical vector for shutting down these threats. Some of the common forms these DNS-based attacks can take include: DNS spoofing: A malicious actor alters DNS records to redirect traffic to a fake website or server.

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Webroot

JULY 6, 2022

Social engineering attacks like phishing, baiting and scareware have skyrocketed to take the top spot as the #1 cause of cybersecurity breaches. And as it turns out, those instincts are so strong that they can override our sixth sense about cybercrime. So what makes social engineering so effective? Impersonation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2022

The attack chains starts with a phishing email using a malicious ZIP attachment that contain an ISO image with a loader in the form of JavaScript, a Windows batch file or Visual Basic script. “To deliver the malware payload, the actor registered several malicious subdomains using DuckDNS, a free dynamic DNS service.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Cybercrime is on the rise. The number of ransomware attacks has increased by 18% , while the worldwide volume of phishing attacks doubled to 500 million in 2022. billion to data breaches and cybercrime. billion to data breaches and cybercrime. And those attacks are costing companies a lot of money.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

The attackers breached the mailboxes of the victims using phishing messages, then exfiltrated sensitive data contained in the incoming messages using matching forwarding rules. The FBI 2020 annual report on cybercrime for 2020 listed a record number of more than $1.8 ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Security researchers from the Cisco Talos team uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting the aviation industry for two years avoiding detection. Security researchers from Cisco Talos uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting, dubbed Operation Layover, that targeted the aviation industry for two years without being detected.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2024

Financial organizations and their customers and clients feel the fallout of major ransomware and phishing campaigns more than ever, and there’s often more at stake. Finance needs a new approach to deal with the ongoing rise in cybercrime. There’s no shortage of researchable financial cybercrime on the internet.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2024, a simple online search can lead to more than just information—it could expose you to the latest trend in cybercrime: malvertising. A growing threat: malvertising's new tactics Malvertising, or malicious advertising, involves cybercriminals embedding malware or phishing traps in online ads.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Since bad actors need to communicate back to their C2, digital exhaust often takes the form of DNS records , which if monitored properly allows organizations to detect anomalous patterns and stop the communications, and thus the breach, before the criminals can do any major harm. That's where technologies like protective DNS come in.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

The phishing emails contain a Microsoft Office attachment that includes an external reference in its metadata which downloads a malicious template file. “This technique works by sending an encrypted string appended to the DNS query set as a subdomain. We have observed similar behavior with DNS exfiltration tools such as DNSCAT2.”

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Security experts at Flashpoint revealed that the financially-motivated cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Anunak and Carbanak ) used new malware in a recent hacking campaign. The emails would also drop the backdoor DNSbot that primarily operates over DNS traffic. ” continues the analysis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

There are different kinds of cyber attacks that are faced by small businesses, including malware, phishing, SQL injection, DNS tunneling, and more. In fact, Phishing alone accounts for 90% of small business cyber attacks. However, most small businesses think they are safe from cybercrime.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. While it’s not clear how the threat actor tricked the victims into executing the Trojanized app, we suspect they sent a spear-phishing email or contacted them via social media.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, cybercrime doesn’t always look like a scene from a Hollywood movie. Cybercrime is predicted to reach an alarming $10.5 DDoS, SQL injections, supply chain attacks, DNS tunneling – all pervasive attacks that can arrive on your doorstep anytime. When you think of cybersecurity threats, what comes to mind?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Roaming Mantis SMS phishing campaign is now targeting Android and iPhone users in Europe with malicious apps and phishing pages. The latest wave of attacks aimed at spreading phishing links via SMS messages (SMiShing), most of the victims were users in Russia, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Vietnam.

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Cisco Security

JULY 22, 2021

Certainly not a new form of cybercrime, but one that has dominated mainstream headlines in recent months. Web security: Most ransomware attacks use DNS. Cisco Secure Email blocks ransomware delivered through spam and phishing emails and identifies malicious attachments and URLs. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison. Google is going to block logins from embedded browsers against MitM phishing attacks. European Commission is not in possession of evidence of issues with Kaspersky products.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). The Phishing template.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. DMARC Record The DMARC record publishes to an organization’s DNS record so it is publicly available for email servers to check. How Does DMARC Work?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

25+ Years of Black Hat (and some DNS stats), by Alejo Calaoagan. Cisco is a Premium Partner of the Black Hat NOC , and is the Official Wired & Wireless Network Equipment, Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider of Black Hat. CyberCrime Tracker. Unmistaken Identity, by Ben Greenbaum.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The group’s distinctive features are the high quality of their phishing attacks and the use of legitimate services, which makes it very difficult to detect its malicious activity in companies’ infrastructures. Silence reduced the use of phishing mail-outs, instead purchasing access to targeted banks from other groups (in particular TA505).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The attacks began with a spam/phishing email containing malicious URL links. The threat actor was also spotted locking the victims out of the network by disabling DNS services, making the recovery even more complex. . In most of the attacks observed by the experts, the spear-phishing email contains a malicious disk image file.

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Ransomware Malware DNS Phishing 98

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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Data breaches Mobile Ransomware Hacking 105

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company that specializes in investigating hi-tech cybercrimes, and the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) , detected and took down a massive multistage scam campaign circulating online on April 7, World Health Day.

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Scams Phishing Risk Information Security 98

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

“These new capabilities represent a significant increase in Necurs’ ability to perpetrate spear phishing, financial crimes and espionage. Experts pointed out that DGA is a double-edged sword because allows security researchers to analyze DNS and network traffic to enumerate bots. ” continues the blog post.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

Attackers use phishing, pretexting, and baiting to gain access or information. Defenders use this knowledge to create security awareness training programs and conduct phishing simulations. Social Engineering Tactics: These tactics exploit human psychology to manipulate individuals.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Group-IB has limited some of the data in the reports that could hinder investigations into the group’s cybercrimes. Like most APTs, Silence uses phishing emails to infect their victims. Going Global” ) — have been made publicly available to help cybersecurity specialists with proper attribution and prevention of new incidents.

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