Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

.” In a SIM-swapping attack, crooks transfer the target’s phone number to a device they control and intercept any text messages or phone calls sent to the victim — including one-time passcodes for authentication, or password reset links sent via SMS. A Scattered Spider phishing lure sent to Twilio employees.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

A Google search for the term “privnotes” brings up a misleading paid ad for the phishing site privnotes.com, which is listed above the legitimate site — privnote.com. “So if there are password dumps in the message, they would be able to read that, too,” Nixon said. “It’s a pretty smart scam.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. ” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team posted an article stating that they have been tracking a widespread credential phishing campaign using open redirector links. By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing scam and steal user credentials. Credential phishing.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This year’s theme is “Secure Our World” with an emphasis on recognizing phishing and vishing attempts – two prevalent tactics used by bad actors to exploit unsuspecting individuals. Part of the requirements for a standard phishing test is allowlisting our sending domains. However, no emails were opened during this initial campaign.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. 2, and Aug.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Adaptive phishing campaigns are emerging as an increasingly sophisticated threat in the cybersecurity landscape. The phenomenon This phenomenon represents an evolution of traditional phishing tactics, as attackers seek to overcome defenses using more personalized and targeted approaches.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The email informs John that the company suffered a security breach, and it is essential for all employees to update their passwords immediately. A few days later, John finds himself locked out of his account, and quickly learns that the password reset link he clicked earlier did not come from his company. What is social engineering?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. “Our security team investigated and confirmed threat actor activity, including social engineering of a limited number of GoDaddy employees.

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SecureList

JUNE 10, 2024

Although there are quite a few 2FA varieties, most implementations rely on one-time passwords (OTPs) that the user can get via a text message, voice call, email message, instant message from the website’s official bot or push notification from a mobile app. Phishing is typically how they get the most up-to-date credentials.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 1, 2023

Social engineering is a term used to describe the manipulation of people into revealing sensitive information or performing actions that they otherwise wouldn’t. Social engineering is an age-old tactic that is often used in phishing attacks. Social engineering is an age-old tactic that is often used in phishing attacks.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to hit more than 10,000 organizations. In AiTM phishing, threat actors set up a proxy server between a target user and the website the user wishes to visit, which is the phishing site under the control of the attackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company that is now defunct has exposed information related to 300,000 of its customers that includes their Facebook IDs, residential info, contact numbers, email addresses, hashed passwords, usernames, surnames and DOBs. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“Someone was trying to phish employee credentials, and they were good at it,” Wired reported. “They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. ” Twitter revealed that a key tactic of the group was “phone spear phishing” (a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A visual depiction of the attacks by the SMS phishing group known as Scattered Spider, and Oktapus. Some SMS phishing messages told employees their VPN credentials were expiring and needed to be changed; other phishing messages advised employees about changes to their upcoming work schedule. com and ouryahoo-okta[.]com.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In a Private Industry Notification (PIN), the FBI warned businesses that “cyber actors” had been observed, “circumventing multi-factor authentication through common social engineering and technical attacks.” The methods used were SIM swapping , phishing , and newer hacking tools such as Muraena and Necrobrowser. Read the PIN here.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Identity services provider Okta warned customers of social engineering attacks carried out by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. Okta is warning customers of social engineering attacks carried out in recent weeks by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. ” continues the advisory.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Phishing scammers love well known brand names, because people trust them, and their email designs are easy to rip off. Earlier this year, DocuSign specifically warned about phishing campaigns using its brand. We’ve included some examples of DocuSign phishing campaigns below. Real DocuSign emails used for phishing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This post analyzed the numerous phishing campaigns targeting users and organizations in Italy. Phishing is a ploy to trick users into revealing personal or financial information through an e-mail, Web site, and even through instant messaging. Phishing can also be used as a precursor attack to drop malware. Just to name a few.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

LastPass, a leading password management platform, has issued a critical warning to users about a social engineering campaign targeting its customer base through deceptive reviews on its Chrome Web Store... The post Warning: LastPass Alerts Users to Phishing Scam Using Fake Support Reviews on Chrome Web Store appeared first on Cybersecurity (..)

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Accessing vital information to complete day-to-day tasks at our jobs still requires using a password-based system at most companies. Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. Trezor WARNING: Elaborate Phishing attack. Trazor also took the phishing domain used by threat actors offline and launched an investigation to determine how many users have been impacted.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” Threat actors are using domains like the following for this QR-code phishing activity: qr-s1[.]com What Happened? com qr-s2[.]com com qr-s3[.]com com qr-s4[.]com

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. PayPal phishing sites are a dime a dozen due to the number of people and companies using it as another form of payment method. This was evident after Akamai found an attacker had planted a phishing kit on its WordPress honeypot.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Can you spot the subtle difference in the domain name compared to the search engine? Of course not, especially if someone has just arrived at this page after clicking on a link like NordVPN's with the uppercase "I" and especially not if instead of a "fine real estate" website the page was a phish designed to look precisely like Google.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 18, 2022

Everything Everywhere shortly and widely known as EE, a UK based company that offers super-fast telecom and data network services based on 5G says that it has officially blocked 200 million phishing texts and over 11 million scammed calls to its users in the month of this year’s July alone.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

Case in point: a colossal password compilation dubbed "RockYou2024" has emerged, containing nearly 10 billion unique passwords. The name "RockYou2024" pays homage to the infamous RockYou data breach of 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords due to insecure storage practices.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. Quidd (4 million records): An archive of 4 million usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords from online marketplace Quidd were found online following an April data breach.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 30, 2022

Intuit released a warning about a phishing email being sent to its customers. The phishing emails tell recipients that their account has been put on hold, and try to trick users into “validating their account” to release it again. Image of phishing email courtesy of Intuit. Intuit Inc. QuickBooks Support. ” Clues.

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The Hacker News

MAY 2, 2024

Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than passwords," Heather Adkins, vice president of security engineering at Google, said.

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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. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Hence, cybercriminals have little motivation to invest heavily into phishing campaigns, and so, techniques used in email attacks on hot wallets are hardly ever original or complex. Sample phishing email that targets Coinbase users After the user clicks the link, they are redirected to a page where they are asked to enter their seed phrase.

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