IT Governance

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Want to stay up to date on phishing scams ? These attacks begin with a spear phishing attack sent to someone in the organisation who handles payments. It identified a 100% increase in financial losses between May 2018 and June 2019. See also: Phishing scams for November 2019. Phishing scams for October 2019.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

A spear-phishing attack this week hooked a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. 49 (that domain is hobbled here because it is currently flagged as hosting a phishing site). It was starting to look like someone had gotten phished.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

The report focuses on phishing kits – the driving force of the phishing industry, which is hard to detect but extremely valuable in terms of fight against phishing. The growing demand for phishing kits is also reflected in its price that skyrocketed last year by 149 percent and exceeded $300 per item.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

A phishing simulation is a cybersecurity exercise that tests an organization’s ability to recognize and respond to a phishing attack. During a phishing simulation, employees receive simulated phishing emails (or texts or phone calls) that mimic real-world phishing attempts. million phishing sites.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A China-based financially motivated group, tracked as Fangxiao, is behind a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. Researchers from Cyjax reported that a China-based financially motivated group, dubbed Fangxiao, orchestrated a large-scale phishing campaign since 2017. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing).

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 25, 2019

Incident Among Largest Health Data Breaches So Far in 2019 The Oregon Department of Human Services is among the latest entities to reveal a phishing breach impacting the protected health information of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. 2, 2019: What Westby’s iPhone displayed as the scam caller’s identity. As I noted in my October 2018 piece, Voice Phishing Scams are Getting More Clever , phone phishing usually invokes an element of urgency in a bid to get people to let their guard down.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2019

phishing emails every week. There’s plenty of advice on how to spot phishing scams , but without any real-world examples that explain how they work, it can be easy to see the threat as purely theoretical. That’s why we’ve decided to review phishing attacks in practice. Your employees receive an average of 4.8 What’s the lesson?

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

We’re back for another round-up of phishing scams that caught our eye over the past month. This series provides real-life examples of phishing emails, helping you understand how they work and what you should do to avoid falling victim. You can check out last month’s list if you missed it. Utility providers targeted with spyware.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Security experts often warn us about the threat of phishing, but how are we supposed to know what a scam looks like in practice? As @cakestoriesbyL mentioned phishing@cebtrica.com is not working. The phishing email I received is worrying as it looks authentic and many would have fallen for it. pic.twitter.com/wLMVK8Lv1z.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 23, 2022

The free and unmonitored webpage publishing platform has been identified as being used in phishing scams dating back as early as mid-2019, as a key part to bypass security solutions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the IC3 Annual Report released in April 2019 financial losses reached $2.7 The total cost of cybercrime for each company in 2019 reached US$13M. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. Financial losses reached $2.7 billion in 2018.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

An international operation conducted by Ukraine’s police, along with the US and Australia peers, shut down the world’s largest phishing Service U-Admin. The phishing service was involved in attacks aimed at financial institutions in 11 countries (Australia, Spain, the U.S., and caused tens of millions of dollars in losses.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 22, 2022

Proposed Agreement to Settle Class Action Lawsuit in Solara Medical Supplies Breach Solara Medical Supplies has agreed to pay $5 million and implement a host of security improvements under a proposed settlement of a consolidated class action lawsuit involving a 2019 phishing incident that affected sensitive information of more than 114,000 individuals. (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Secure web- phishing. In the first six months of 2020, CERT-GIB blocked a total of 9 304 phishing web resources, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the previous year.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Cybercrime increasingly went mobile in 2019, with everything from Apple iPhone jailbreaks and rogue Android apps to 5G and mobile-first phishing dominating the news coverage. Here are Threatpost's Top 10 mobile security stories of 2019.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The number of stalkerware apps detected on smartphones increased in 2019, a full 60% over the previous year according to a new report released by Kaspersky Labs. . This is thought to be the way Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked in 2019. The post Stalkerware Installations Up 60% in 2019 appeared first on Adam Levin.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

BlackBerry has published a report on a threat actor, Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, which has been operating against targets in Ecuador and Colombia since at least 2019. Its most recent activity has been directed at organizations in Colombia. “On

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

A crook involved in a spear phishing scheme and that was in Kenya is facing up to 20 years in the US federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars from US universities. Amil Hassan Raage, 48, pleaded guilty last week in a southern California court to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme.

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IT Governance

JULY 7, 2021

Welcome to July’s review of phishing scams, in which we look at criminals’ latest tactics and provide examples of successful frauds. The number of officially reported HMRC-branded phishing scams increased from 572,029 in the 2019–2020 fiscal year to 1,069,522 in 2020–2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Some phishing scams contain links to websites that replicate a real site with the intention of nabbing your login details, whereas others contain attachments loaded with malware. See also: Phishing scams for December 2019. Phishing scams for November 2019. Phishing scams for October 2019.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Crooks leverage Google Translate service as camouflage on mobile browsers in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Google account and Facebook credentials. Cashdollar (@_larry0) February 5, 2019. These phishing emails pose as alerts sent by Google that inform users that their accounts were accessed from a new Windows device.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 14, 2020

According to the UK government , the 2019 festive period saw online shoppers in England and Wales lose, on average, £775. Meanwhile, in this blog, we look at three specific ways that criminals may target you in a phishing scam this Christmas. Fake adverts in online marketplaces. Malware hidden in e-cards.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bryan hijacked social media and bitcoin accounts using a mix of voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks and “ SIM swapping ,” a form of fraud that involves bribing or tricking employees at mobile phone companies. Milleson , 21 of Timonium, Md. and 19-year-old Kingston, Pa. resident Kyell A.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In 2019, over 320 million users were registered with the MercadoLivre e-commerce platform. . The kill chain starts with phishing messages that use a.docx file that once is opened triggers a template injection attack. The post Phishing campaign targets LATAM e-commerce users with Chaes Malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A group under the Magecart umbrella adopted a new tactic that leverages on MiTM and phishing attacks to target sites using external payment processors. The Full ( z) House group started using a hybrid technique in August-September of 2019. The Full ( z) House group started using a hybrid technique in August-September of 2019.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Security experts at Proofpoint observed a new wave of phishing attacks aimed at US Utilities in an attempt to deliver the LookBack RAT. Security experts at Proofpoint have discovered a new series of phishing attacks targeting entities US utilities in an attempt to deliver the LookBack RAT. nceess [. ] Nceess [. ]

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It affects Microsoft Windows 10 and later, as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and subsequent versions. “Attackers exploiting this flaw could gain SYSTEM privileges, making it an efficient method for escalating privileges, especially after initial access through methods like phishing.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Experts have uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting the United Nations and NGOs, including UNICEF and UN World Food. Security firm Lookout uncovered an ongoing spear-phishing campaign aimed at NGOs, including human rights organizations such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food and the UN Development programs.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Proofpoint's senior director of the threat research team discusses the strange levels that attackers are going to in order to persuade victims to click on phishing messages.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Infection vectors were evenly divided among phishing, vulnerability exploitation, and unauthorized credential use in 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

Security researchers at Cofense have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers distributing a new remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as WSH RAT. “This new variant is named WSH Remote Access Tool (RAT) by the malware’s author and was released on June 2, 2019. .” ” continues the post.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 7, 2020

On September 30, 2020, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (the “Belgian DPA”) released its 2019 Annual Report (the “Report”). Notably, 2019 was the year of the Belgian DPA’s first fines under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the release of the Belgian DPA’s 2019-2025 Strategic Plan.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A We must ask: 'Is the email expected?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

It typically spreads through two different vectors: perimeter breach, for instance compromising company’s websites; spear-phishing emails and malicious attachments. GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019. The post GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. Figure 2 – Modules of GreyEnergy malware (Figure by ESET).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

Want to stay up to date with the latest phishing scams ? Latest PayPal phishing scam goes for more than just your login details. It begins with a standard phishing email, but victims end up handing over financial and personal details in addition to their login credentials. See also: Catches of the month for December 2019.

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