Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

If I'm completely honest, I had no idea what the correct answer would be because frankly, I'm bad at reading URLs. That's what happens already once the URL appears in the browser's address bar: Wait, don't browsers always do.toLowerCase() on URLs in the navbar, after they are resolved & loaded? — Bartek ?

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KnowBe4

JUNE 7, 2022

A new phishing method uses a decades-old special URL format to take advantage of how security solutions and email clients interpret URLs, tricking victims into clicking.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybercriminals devised a new phishing technique that leverages the Morse code to hide malicious URLs and bypass defense. Experts spotted a new targeted phishing campaign that leverages a new obfuscation technique based on the Morse code to hide malicious URLs in an email attachment and bypass secure mail gateways and mail filters.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Sneaky attackers are flipping backslashes in phishing email URLs to evade protections, researchers said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

” Threat actors behind the campaign leverage redirector URLs with the capability to detect incoming connections from sandbox environments. The phishing URLs have an extra dot after the TLD, which is followed by the Base64-encoded email address of the recipient. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Office 365).

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Dark Reading

APRIL 12, 2021

A new campaign abuses legitimate website contact forms to send URLs that ultimately deliver the IcedID banking Trojan.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 19, 2023

1 Attack Vector, With Huge 144% Malicious URL Spike Phishing Is Still the No.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URL could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URLs could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. This issue impersonated relevant organizations using the Vanity URL capability.”

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this latest distribution method, the attackers send spam emails that deliver deceptive URL files that circumvent the SmartScreen banner warning.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered that iOS URL scheme could allow an attacker to hijack users’ accounts via App-in-the-Middle attack. The attack exploits the implementations of the Custom URL Scheme. The method could allow developers to launch an app through URLs (i.e. ” continues the analysis.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

But it’s important we do something, because everyone is unsatisfied by URLs. "Whatever we propose is going to be controversial. They kind of suck.".

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Analysis of nearly a year’s worth of emails brings insight into exactly what kinds of malicious content are being used, who’s being impersonated, and who’s being targeted.

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Threatpost

JULY 16, 2020

An attacker could pose as a company employee, invite customers or partners to meetings, then use socially engineered conversation to extract sensitive information.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 29, 2019

Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Everyone knows you shouldn’t click phishy links. But are your end users prepared to quickly identify the trickiest tactics bad actors use before it’s too late? Probably not.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

BlueCharlie' Favors a New Domain Registrar and URL Structure A Russia-linked hacking group is shifting its online infrastructure likely in response to public disclosures about its activity.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 17, 2023

Acquisitive Startup Buys Cyren's Threat Intel, URL Categorization, Email Security Data443 has bought Cyren's threat intelligence, URL categorization and email security technology out of bankruptcy for up to $3.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URL could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URLs could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. This issue impersonated relevant organizations using the Vanity URL capability.”

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Threatpost

MARCH 5, 2019

At least 463,546 malicious URLs contained in the 28.4 million analyzed emails made it through to corporate in-boxes in Q4 of 2018.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Roborock's online storefronts have been used for cybercrime schemes in the past, and it seems attackers are continuing to create fake online shops. After all, the Chinese-originated robot vacuum cleaner brand only sells through resellers in Germany.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Percentage-based URL encoding plus Google domain trickery is helping malicious emails to evade filters.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

DSCI: Ransomware Alkhal Likely Spread Via Phishing, Malicious URLs The Data Security Council of India has issued an advisory about newly discovered ransomware Alkhal, which uses a strong encryption tool and has no known decryptor to recover lost data. The ransomware was likely discovered on Oct.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Researchers say that the campaign sidesteps end user detection and security solutions.

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Threatpost

APRIL 12, 2021

Attackers are filling out and submitting web-based "contact us" forms, thus evading email spam filters.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Urlscan.io , a free service that provides detailed reports on any scanned URLs, also offers a historical look at suspicious links submitted by other users. More recently in late 2021, Jeremy Fuchs of Avanan wrote that the use of a LinkedIn URL may mean that any profession — the market for LinkedIn — could click.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Phishing via Short Message Service (SMS) texts, what is known as smishing , is becoming increasingly common (some examples are shown below). There is probably not a person on Earth who does not get at least one smishing message a month. It is a big problem.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

But ClickProtect Worked as Designed, McAfee Contends A security service from McAfee designed to scan and block malicious links sent via email appears to have given a free pass to "Emotet" banking malware, a researcher warned. But McAfee contends that its ClickProtect service worked as intended.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 19, 2020

Study Finds Edge Sends Identifiers and URLs to Back-End Servers Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers, according to a security researcher in Ireland. The researcher's new academic paper says the browser sends specific device identifiers, as well as URLs that users browsed, back to the company's corporate servers.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 18, 2020

Victims are hit with phishing emails that contain either a malicious URL or Word document attachment that downloads the malware. Security Researchers Detect New Spam Campaigns in US and UK After a nearly six-month hiatus, the Emotet botnet has sprung back to life with a spam campaign targeting the U.S.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 12, 2021

Plus: A Colonial Pipeline update, inside details of the FBI's Anom caper, and more of the week's top security news.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Everyone knows you shouldn’t click phishy links. But are your end users prepared to quickly identify the trickiest tactics bad actors use before it’s too late? Probably not.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Researchers advise companies to be wary of attachments and URLs.

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Dark Reading

MAY 11, 2022

Attackers could abuse the vanity subdomains of popular cloud services such as Box.com, Google, and Zoom to mask attacks in phishing campaigns.

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Dark Reading

JULY 12, 2022

New data from security training provider shows half of untrained users in consulting, energy, and healthcare industries fall for phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

redirecturl=[link] The final URL would look like this: “[link] “It allows an attacker to redirect a user to a malicious website or inject arbitrary content into a legitimate website. This can be done by manipulating the URL parameters of the affected SAP system,” Cybernews researchers explained.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

In this way, even if the victim types the correct address on the address bar, they would be redirected to the corrupted URL, which is controlled by the cyberattackers. Here are a few factors you can look for to verify whether a website is fake or real: •Check the website’s URL. Check website URLs. is copied as somethinggov.us.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

The researchers noticed that attackers employed dynamically changing URLs, the use of dynamic JavaScript code allows to change URLs every 10 minutes. The name of the campaign comes from the sign1 parameter used in the code to extract and decode the domain name of a third-party malicious URL. ” concludes the report.

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