Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2024

To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needed GitHub Enterprise Server’s encrypted assertions feature enabled, direct network access, and a signed SAML response or metadata document. “Please note that encrypted assertions are not enabled by default. The flaw affects all versions of Enterprise Server prior to 3.15

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Ukraine’s CERT (CERT-UA) warned of a new phishing campaign by the APT28 group to deploy previously undocumented malware strains. CERT-UA discovered multiple phishing attacks aimed at government organizations between December 15 and December 25. file classified as MASEPIE.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 11, 2023

Intro In February 2022, Microsoft disabled VBA macros on documents due to their frequent use as a malware distribution method. This move prompted malware authors to seek out new ways to distribute their payloads, resulting in an increase in the use of other infection vectors, such as password-encrypted zip files and ISO files.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

What are phishing kits? One of the most common tricks scammers use in phishing attacks is to create a fake official page of a famous brand. Even phishing page domain name can often look like the real web address of a certain brand, as cybercriminals include the name of the company or service they are posing as in the URL.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2021

Microsoft warns of a long-running spear-phishing campaign that has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks since July 2020. Microsoft revealed that a year-long spear-phishing campaign has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks starting with July 2020. com , or api[.]statvoo[.]com

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2022

Encrypted Emotet payload embedded in loader’s.rsrc section. Emotet is primarily distributed through phishing campaigns ( 1 ). Microsoft Office XLS Document Executes Obfuscated Excel 4.0 The first stage of an attack likely begins with a spam email delivering a Microsoft Office XLS document as an attachment.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit. And for good reason. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Fortinet researchers discovered a new phishing campaign spreading a variant of the commercial malware Remcos RAT. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently uncovered a phishing campaign spreading a new variant of the Remcos RAT. Threat actors use Remcos to steal sensitive information and control victims’ computers for malicious activities.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Phishing attacks are nothing new, but scammers are getting savvier with their tactics. Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Here are four new phishing trends keeping businesses on their toes. Spear phishing. Phishing via texting.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed that the number of phishing websites peaked at record levels in the first quarter of 2021. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published its new Phishing Activity Trends Report related to the first quarter of 2021. Reported Phishing Websites for Q1 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks on state organizations of Ukraine using the topic “Azovstal” and Cobalt Strike Beacon. The analysis of encryption techniques employed in the attack allowed the government experts to associate the campaign with the cybercrime group Trickbot. To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the past, the group’s activity involved persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. Recently, TAG has observed COLDRIVER delivering custom malware via phishing campaigns using PDFs as lure documents. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims. The infographic below outlines the most common types of phishing attacks used against individuals or businesses. The eight most common forms of phishing-based cyberattacks.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event. The antivirus server was later encrypted in the attack). Over 30,000 machines were running Windows 7 (out of support since January 2020).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Fortinet researchers discovered a new phishing campaign spreading a variant of the commercial malware Remcos RAT. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently uncovered a phishing campaign spreading a new variant of the Remcos RAT. Threat actors use Remcos to steal sensitive information and control victims’ computers for malicious activities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

Ukraine warned of a “massive” spear-phishing campaign carried out by Russia-linked threat actors against its government and private businesses. This is the third massive spear-phishing campaign that the Ukrainian government attributed to Russia-linked threat actors this year. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Introduction We’ve seen an increase in multi-stage Adversary in the Middle (AiTM) phishing BEC in M365. The RSS Subscriptions folder is commonly used to move any replies to the phishing email by including the subject name, or any automatic replies indicating that the email was blocked or could not be delivered.

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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. We saw, for example, spoofed messages about a comment added to a document stored in the cloud. Statistics: phishing.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

These are common phishing tactics used by regular phishers, but here we can see it being deployed in a more targeted fashion. A lot of the security issues in this story boil down to phishing, and phishing countermeasures. Be aware though that some forms of encryption are more secure than others. Nice award.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 The contact phone trick was heavily used both in email messages and on phishing pages. Agentb malware family. Trends of the year. Malicious links.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 13, 2021

In an extensive report about a phishing campaign , the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team describes a number of encoding techniques that were deployed by the phishers. We just didn’t realize that phishing campaigns was one of them! We just didn’t realize that phishing campaigns was one of them! The campaign.

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SecureList

MAY 3, 2021

Banking phishing: new version of an old scheme. Clients of several Dutch banks faced a phishing attack using QR codes. The links in their messages took the victim to a well-designed phishing pages with official emblems, business language and references to relevant laws. Quarterly highlights. Vaccine with cyberthreat.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The kill chain starts with phishing messages that use a.docx file that once is opened triggers a template injection attack. Experts observed several variants over the recent months, it authors have improved encryption and implemented new functionality of the final Node.js SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. The group uses social engineering techniques to persuade their targets to open documents or download malware. Once a relationship has been established, the target will receive a phishing link or a document containing such a link.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

The state-sponsored hackers sent spear-phishing messages to a general director working at the Rubin Design Bureau , in Saint Petersburg, which is one of three main Russian centers of submarine design. The spear-phishing messages used a malicious Rich Text File (RTF) document that included descriptions of an autonomous underwater vehicle.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The backdoor spreads via weaponized Word documents (“ Apply Form.docm.”) The malicious document was uploaded from Jordan on August 25, 2022. . The experts believe the backdoor is distributed as a part of a spear phishing campaign conducted by a sophisticated threat actor. The command is encrypted using AES-256 CBC.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

Malvertising Enters a New Age While Google grapples with the potential threat that ChatGPT poses to its advertising business, cybercriminals are taking advantage of Google Ads to ramp up their phishing attacks on unsuspecting victims. The post Defeating Malvertising-Based Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This generally includes encrypting data to ensure it is safe from unauthorized access. How can third-party encryption be used for added protection, and how to encrypt documents on Google Drive ? What is Encryption? One of the industry-standard encryption types is AES Encryption or Advanced Encryption Standard.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The attacks frequently targeted small and tribal casinos, encrypting servers and the personally identifying information (PII) of employees and patrons.” The FBI also reported, as of June 2023, that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG), also known as Luna Moth, had been observed conducting callback phishing data theft and extortion attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

The malware StrelaStealer is an email credential stealer that DCSO_CyTec first documented in November 2022. The infection chain was continuously updated, current StrelaStealer version is distributed via spear phishing emails containing a ZIP file attachment. “The JScript file then drops a Base64-encrypted file and a batch file.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Cloud-based attacks are diverse and constantly changing, with threat actors directly targeting cloud environments or using cloud services to carry out malicious activities like phishing. In this blog, we focus on three of the five threats from the report: API compromise, SaaS-based phishing, and cloud environment hijacking.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

From zombie botnets to phishing phantoms, these threats might sound like campfire tales, but they're some of the most sinister forces in cybersecurity today. Phishing phantoms: masters of disguise Phishing scams have become more sophisticated. Like a phantom in disguise, a phishing attack can appear harmless—until it's too late.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. Look for the “https” in the website’s URL—it means there’s some level of encryption.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

The KamiKakaBot malware spreads via phishing emails that contain a malicious ISO file as an attachment. dll), and a decoy Microsoft Word document. “The ISO file also contains a decoy Word document that has an XOR-encrypted section. Upon clicking on WinWord.exe, the loader is executed in the memory of WinWord.exe.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.

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