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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s recent white paper “ Ransomware Uncovered: Attackers’ Latest Methods ”: ransomware operators have switched from attacks en masse on individuals to corporate networks. They are followed by banking Trojans , whose share in the total amount of malicious attachments showed growth for the first time in a while.

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A Brief History of Phishing, and Other Forms of Social Engineering

KnowBe4

Social engineering attacks have a very long history, though the Internet has made it easier to launch these attacks en masse, according to Sean McNee at DomainTools. McNee points to an advance-fee scam from 1924, in which a crook sent a letter pretending to be trapped in a Spanish debtors prison.

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Attacks Targeting IoT Devices and Windows SMB Surge

Data Breach Today

Researchers Say Mirai Derivatives and EternalBlue Exploits Pummel Internet-Connected Devices Two years after WannaCry wrecked havoc via flaws in SMB_v1 and three years after Mirai infected internet of things devices en masse via default credentials, attackers are increasingly targeting the same flaws, security experts warn.

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xz Utils Backdoor

Schneier on Security

Kumar, with the support of Dennis Ens and several other people who had never had a presence on the list, pressured Collin to bring on an additional developer to maintain the project. The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. From ArsTehnica : Malicious code added to xz Utils versions 5.6.0 modified the way the software functions.

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Hacker hijacked Orange Spain RIPE account causing internet outage to company customers

Security Affairs

NOTA: La cuenta de Orange en el centro de coordinación de redes IP (RIPE) ha sufrido un acceso indebido que ha afectando a la navegación de algunos de nuestros clientes. The customers of the company were not able to access the internet for several hours on January 3 as a result of the attack.

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Weekly Update 384

Troy Hunt

To add some more perspective, I've just posted a poll immediately before publishing this blog post, let's see what the masses have to say: Scraping: should we be concerned if an individual's personal data is scraped, aggregated en mass and redistributed if that same data is already publicly accessible on the service anyway?

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FIRESIDE CHAT: Outrageous phone bills stun businesses targeted for ‘SMS toll fraud’

The Last Watchdog

Related: Countering Putin’s weaponizing of ransomware The fraudsters set themselves up as “affiliates” of phone companies in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam and then use bots to apply for online accounts, en masse, at a targeted business. For a full drill down on our discussion, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.