eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Steganography, derived from Greek words meaning “covered” and “writing,” has been used for centuries to hide secret messages inside regular documents. For example, hackers attacked Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, with malicious code hidden in a media file and managed to gather confidential information.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. Also see: Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions. What Is HTML Smuggling?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In fact it can be considered a sort of malicious implant able to not only commit bank-related crimes, but also providing tools and mechanism for advanced attackers to penetrate within company networks. The attacker simply used a white font to hide the malicious content from the unaware user (and from the endpoint agents).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Malicious actors are using SMTP servers leveraging bad server’s configuration. Email spoofing technique is used to impersonate the giant DHL; a popular distribution firm; sending a shipment notification to the user’s email inbox. The email used to carry out this campaign is: <support@dhl[.]com>

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