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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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ConnectWise , which offers a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link.

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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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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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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. pdf.exe) that the victim was asked to download was a malicious program known as Backdoor.Win32.RWS.a. In fact, the file named “??????? ?8883987726

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

affiliate is targeting companies with phishing emails, tricking them into installing the Amadey Bot and taking control of their devices. payload is downloaded as a PowerShell script or executable file that runs on the host computer and encrypts files. A LockBit 3.0 The attack’s LockBit 3.0 What Is the Amadey Bot?

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. How can we combine the best of two worlds in a single phishing-resistant MFA solution? It's a sensible decision to utilize MFA.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction Following the 2024 ThreatLabz Phishing Report, Zscaler ThreatLabz has been closely tracking domains associated with typosquatting and brand impersonation - common techniques used by threat actors to proliferate phishing campaigns. Among the analyzed phishing domains, 48.4%

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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. Once the CVE-2017-0199 is exploited, it downloads an HTA file and executes it on the recipient’s device.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Armorblox discovered a new phishing campaign aimed at American Express customers. Armorblox researchers uncovered a new phishing campaign that is targeting American Express customers. The phishing email, marked by Google as safe, was delivered to more than 16,000 users’ addresses. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When you buy a Sony, Lexar, or Sandisk USB key or any other storage device, it comes with an encryption solution to keep your data safe. Netherlands-based company with 12 million users worldwide provides “military-grade data protection” solutions with its popular DataVault encryption software. Company’s response. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2024

On July 24, 2024, CrowdStrike experts identified a spear-phishing campaign targeting German customers by exploiting the recent issue with Falcon Sensor updates. The site was used to deploy JavaScript disguised as JQuery to download and deobfuscate the installer. com/crowdstrike/. “The website it[.]com

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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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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The DEV-0569 group carries out malvertising campaigns to spread links to a signed malware downloader posing as software installers or fake updates embedded in spam messages, fake forum pages, and blog comments. The downloader, tracked as BATLOADER , shares similarities with another malware called ZLoader. anydeskos[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

GRAND THEFT AUTOMATED Just days after Griffin was robbed, a scammer impersonating Google managed to phish 45 bitcoins — approximately $4,725,000 at today’s value — from Tony , a 42-year-old professional from northern California. I put my seed phrase into a phishing site, and that was it.” My brain went haywire.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Kral In mid-2023, we discovered the Kral downloader which, back then, downloaded the notorious Aurora stealer. This changed in February this year when we discovered a new Kral stealer, which we believe is part of the same malware family as the downloader due to certain code similarities. That file is the Kral downloader.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2022

Unlike previous attacks that were trying to convince victims to open a url and download a first stage payload or distributing fake translation software, in this campaign the threat actor is using a spear phishing attack that contains macro-embedded Excel documents. Phishing email. Figure 2: Phishing email. Wage arrears.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The ransomware encrypts files on the targeted systems using the “ cuba” extension. The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea. Phishing Infrastructure. The group has the capability to set up phishing infrastructure to mimic well known websites and trick victims to enter their credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The spear phishing campaigns have targeted engineers and technical support operators, and the cybercriminals have pretended to be IT recruiters. Then they moved the conversation away from the platform to encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. The victims were tricked into downloading utilities to complete fake job assessments.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. A green or gray padlock icon in your browser’s address bar also indicates that information, like credit card numbers, is encrypted when transmitted. Look for the lock.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 29, 2021

These include: Phishing Emails. Phishing is a mechanism that is normally utilised by cybercriminals in an attempt to get an online user to reveal his or her personal information. Phishing emails are therefore online messages which appear legitimate on one hand while containing malware-infused attachments on the other.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Usually, such malware is circulated as apps like Snaptube, that promise video downloads from Facebook, YouTube and Instagram all for free. The promos are intended to not only win the trust of users but also tempt users in downloading other nasty software that can drive them into deep-trouble.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“This will eradicate malicious payloads from being downloaded through office files that will also help in mitigating risks such as compromised identity theft, data loss, malware propagation and remote access,” said Kellie Eickmeyer, the Principal Product Manager, Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

A new banking trojan dubbed maxtrilha (due to its encryption key) has been discovered in the last few days and targeting customers of European and South American banks. The campaign has been leveraged by Brazilian criminals’ gangue, who use customized phishing templates to spread the trojan maxtrilha according to the target country.

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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

MARCH 25, 2024

The infection chain was continuously updated, current StrelaStealer version is distributed via spear phishing emails containing a ZIP file attachment. Upon downloading and opening the archive, a JScript file is dropped onto the system. “The JScript file then drops a Base64-encrypted file and a batch file.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ransomware is then downloaded and the breach is underway. Social engineering is a term that describes a variety of tactics that cybercriminals use to trick individuals into divulging critical information or downloading malware onto their devices. OnePercent utilizes a malicious file attachment via phishing email.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2024

Threat actors sent phishing emails with RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut to install malware. In late July 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected a series of targeted cyberattacks against the Russian government and IT organizations. Kaspersky named this campaign has EastWind. ” continues the report.

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