Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

The company highlight the risks of identity theft or phishing attacks in case their data have been compromised. The gang has been active since at least 2019 and today it is one of the most active ransomware gangs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Iran-linked Cobalt Dickens APT group carried out a spear-phishing campaign aimed at tens of universities worldwide. “In July and August 2019, CTU researchers discovered a new large global phishing operation launched by COBALT DICKENS. ” reads the analysis published by Secureworks. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The author of the post claims that the data was acquired from US insurance giant Humana and includes detailed medical records of the company’s health plan members dating back to 2019. One of the forum members who downloaded the database claims that the archive contains information from 2020, and not 2019, as suggested by the leaker.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. The malware is currently distributed via exploit kits, phishing campaigns, and bundled with other malware. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Because QR codes can open links automatically, hackers can use them to redirect users to forged websites and thus improve the success rate of their phishing campaigns , for example. While QR codes offer a great way to store and access information, they come with a fair amount of risk. Counterfeit Codes. Hacking with Malicious QR Codes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. New #Mespinoza #Ransomware [link] Ext: locked R/n: Readme.README Affected users, contact the support forum of @BleepinComputer pic.twitter.com/SbKxVEIXUd — Amigo-A (@Amigo_A_) October 25, 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. “Towards the end of April 2019, we tracked down what we believe to be new activity by APT10 , a Chinese cyber espionage group.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The group was also observed using modified versions of common malware such as PlugX RAT , Trochilus RAT, keyloggers using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library, the custom in-memory HyperBro backdoor, and a Cobalt Strike sample. is dated October, 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls Phishing is, in fact, the major attack vector to distribute threats this nature in-the-wild. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. The file “ FacturaNovembro-4492154-2019-10_8.vbs

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. They can be purchased from data theft rings or they can be directly spear phished by the attacker. Manipulating runtime.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As stated in a recent Eset report , the Shade infection had an increase during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size (shown in Figure 1). Trend of malicious JavaScript downloading Shade ransomware (source: ESET).

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899). Hackers publish list of Discord credentials they accessed in phishing scam (2,500). Lancaster University students caught out in phishing attack (unknown). Libraries in Onondaga Co., Henry Co., NY, hit by ransomware attack (unknown).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Even though there are infinite strains of malware, there are only a handful of vectors, some of which include surfing the Web, phishing emails, Trojan downloads and portable document formats (PDFs). Spear Phishing. With spear phishing, hackers target organizations for confidential or highly sensitive data. Malvertising.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Security experts from NVISO Labs recently spotted the activity of a new malware gang, tracked as Epic Manchego, that is actively targeting companies across the world with phishing emails since June. The phishing messages carry weaponized Excel documents that are able to bypass security checks and that had low detection rates.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The e-skimmer was first spotted by researchers at Malwarebytes’ Threat Intelligence Team, the researchers noticed a single line of code that is used to load an external JavaScript library from paypal-debit[.]com/cdn/ga.js. us, had been injected with a one-liner that contains a Base64 encoded URL loading an external JavaScript library.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” ” SlashNext asked WormGPT to compose this BEC phishing email. . Image: SlashNext.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. During the 2019 holiday season, the Barracuda research team analyzed 4,200 Android apps related to shopping, Santa, and games. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Hundreds of vulnerabilities in common Wi-Fi routers affect millions of users German BSI agency warns of ransomware attacks over Christmas holidays Cuba ransomware gang hacked 49 US critical infrastructure organizations CISA warns of vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy products NSO Group spyware used to compromise iPhones of 9 US State Dept officials (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

Experts observed APT41 using spear-phishing email with attachments such as compiled HTML (. based research university took place on April 2019. The hackers exploited the CVE-2019-3396 vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Server to compromise the systems and load additional payloads, including a variant of the China Chop web shell.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. VBS file leverages the Windows rundll32 library to inject the first DLL into memory (P-14-7.dll), Deofuscation and renaming VBS calls.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Our Cyber Incident Response service provides the help you need to deal with the threat, as our experts guide you through the recovery process.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel estimated to have made $75 million Brokerage firm agrees to $3 million deal for New York cyber security rule violations National Australia Bank repays customers $687k for 2019 data breach. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Will you be next?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

The current focus of most security awareness training initiatives is on phishing – and with good reason. Phishing is responsible for the bulk of breaches. Custom phishing templates and landing pages. Employee engagement to report suspected phishing. Comprehensive training library with fresh content.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing. 2007: Zeus virus First identified in 2007, Zeus infected personal computers via phishing and drive-by-downloads and demonstrated the dangerous potential of a trojan-style virus that can deliver many different types of malicious software.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers. Google, IBM, and Microsoft continue to explore FHE capabilities to process specific data while maintaining its secrecy and have released open-source encryption libraries.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Reporters Without Borders, created a Minecraft anti censorship library full of censored books, actual text that can be read from around the world as kind of a lost Library of Alexandria. There was, for example, a variant of MRI in the fall of 2019 that went after Android TVs. It started in Android TV, right.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2020

By comparison, 2019 saw an average of almost 80 data breaches and cyber attacks per month. You can find detailed breakdowns of some of the more notable incidents by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or by visiting our blog (where we have a dedicated series on phishing scams ). in phishing scam (unknown).

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