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Dropbox Used in Latest Exploit for Phishing Attacks

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Darktrace Warns of Malware Hidden in PDF Stored in Dropbox Phishing attacks continue to adapt to exploit popular apps. While many phishing campaigns have focused on mobile banking and payment sites, attackers are also targeting widely used but lower-profile, cloud-based utilities such as the ubiquitous Dropbox storage platform.

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Mobile-Driven Phishing Spoofs FCC, Cryptocurrency Giants

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Researchers Say Hackers Used Fake Login Pages to Trick 100 Victims, Crypto Workers A new phishing campaign is targeting victims through mobile devices by mirroring legitimate login pages for the Federal Communications Commission and large cryptocurrency platforms including Binance and Coinbase.

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Phish Perfect: How ChatGPT Can Help Criminals Get There

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AI Generated Phishing Still Cannot Beat Humans, But Not for Long: IBM ChatGPT can craft almost perfect phishing emails in five minutes, nearly beating a social engineering team with decades of experience, the results of a "nail-biting" experiment by IBM showed.

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Breach Roundup: MongoDB Blames Phishing Email for Breach

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Also: Hackers Scrooge The North Face Holiday Shipments This week, MongoDB blamed a phishing email for causing unauthorized access to its corporate environment, hackers interrupted VF Corp.

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The Business Cost of Phishing

Phishing is a problem that's plagued organizations for years. IT and Security teams will tell you that they’re spending too much time and money on phishing, but what does that mean? This report quantifies the financial impacts of phishing.

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Cryptohack Roundup: It's Raining Phishing Scams on X

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Also: Bitcoin ETP, Gamma and dYdX Attacks, 2023 Hack Stats This week, hackers ran crypto phishing scams on X accounts, the SEC approved bitcoin ETP, hackers stole $3.4

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DarkGate Malware Operators on a Phishing Spree

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Vectors Includes Teams Phishing and Malvertising Advertising on Russian-language criminal forums is paying off for the author of the DarkGate malware as reflected by a spike in infections, including an unusual phishing campaign on Microsoft Teams to deliver the loader through HR-themed social engineering chat messages.

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