Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Cofense researchers discovered a new phishing campaign using QR codes targeting German e-banking users in the last weeks. Threat actors continue to use multiple techniques to avoid detection and trick recipients into opening phishing messages, including the use of QR codes. The messages used in a campaign recently discovered by cybersecurity firm Cofense use QR codes to deceive users of two Geman financial institutions, Sparkasse and Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken, and steal digital banking inform

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Immediately after the disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw in Log4j library threat actors started including the exploit code in Linux botnets. Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. The attempts were carried out by Muhstik and Mirai botnets in attacks aimed at Linux devices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites in response to the discovery of the Log4Shell flaw in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. On Friday, 10, 2021, Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed the PoC exploit code for this issue and revealed that the CVE-2021-44228 can only b

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

A United States court has sentenced to four years in prison for the Russian citizen Oleg Koshkin for his role in Kelihos Botnet development. Oleg Koshkin (41) has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse and one count of computer fraud and abuse. Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted in January for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection. &#

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