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BlackCocaine Ransomware, a new malware in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. Nucleus Software declared that it does not store customers’ financial data. BlackCocaine ” to the filenames of encrypted files.

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China-linked Budworm APT returns to target a US entity

Security Affairs

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. The attacks aimed at stealing sensitive data from the victims and attempted to launch supply chain attacks targeting their customers. The group also targeted a hospital in South East Asia.

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Emissary Panda updated its weapons for attacks in the past 2 years

Security Affairs

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. The cyber spies delivered the threat in multiple ways, including malicious Word documents leveraging Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), manual deployment via stolen credentials, or via a redirect from a strategic web compromise (SWC).

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6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

eSecurity Planet

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. infrastructure, making it a less effective option for global enterprises and distributed workforces abuse.ch

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Group-IB uncovers PerSwaysion – sophisticated phishing campaign targeting executives worldwide

Security Affairs

ybercriminals behind the PerSwaysion campaign gained access to many confidential corporate MS Office365 emails of mainly financial service companies, law firms, and real estate groups. They dump email data via API and establish the owner’s high-level business connections. Hence, it opens up a wide range of possibilities.

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I've Just Added 2,844 New Data Breaches With 80M Records To Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. It's also interesting because among nearly 3k other breaches, the data contains Dropbox.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. According to the report, the financial services industry as a target has increased by 72% over 2022 and was the single largest target of financial fraud attacks, representing 49% of all such attacks.