Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Email services are also included)” The announcement also published some screenshots containing allegedly stolen HPE credentials. Recently Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) revealed that alleged Russia-linked cyberespionage group Midnight Blizzard gained access to its Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based email environment.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” “Based on our investigation, we believe these incidents are part of a multi-year campaign by a sophisticated threat actor group that, among other things, installed malware on our systems and obtained pieces of code related to some services within GoDaddy,” the company stated in its SEC filing.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

The espionage group is exploiting four newly-discovered flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server email software, and has seeded hundreds of thousands of victim organizations worldwide with tools that give the attackers total, remote control over affected systems. based Volexity for reporting the vulnerabilities. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

Earlier today, incident response firm Mandiant revealed that since at least October 2022, Chinese cyber spies have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in many email security gateway (ESG) appliances sold by California-based Barracuda Networks to hoover up email from organizations using these devices.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) recently warned that attackers are increasingly using token theft to circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA). ” Depending on the privileges of the victim, the result can range from business email compromise (BEC) to total takeover of administrative control.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Based on a recent Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) engagement with a law enforcement agency (LEA) and one of the leading investment organizations in Singapore (and other victims), Resecurity (USA) has uncovered a meaningful link between three major ransomware groups.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have been used by cybercriminals to create convincing spoofing emails, resulting in a dramatic rise in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Refining phishing or BEC attack emails using generative AI. ” “The results were unsettling,” Kelley wrote.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

Email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated, how is changing the Email Security Landscape? For over a decade, email has been a common source of cybersecurity threats. During that time, email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated. It’s a trend that’s growing. QR code spoofing.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

PrismHR , a company that sells technology used by other firms to help more than 80,000 small businesses manage payroll, benefits, and human resources, has suffered what appears to be an ongoing ransomware attack that is disrupting many of its services. Hopkinton, Mass.-based PrismHR has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

In this interview, I pick her brain on cyber incident response more generally, gaining her expert insight into the ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’, along with practical, real-life examples. Now, she’s part of our cyber incident response team, helping clients with their cyber security requirements. Or in your line of work generally?

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Dark Reading

MAY 25, 2022

According to the findings, vishing attacks have overtaken business email compromise as the second most reported response-based email threat since Q3 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based proxy services have chosen to block new registrations to avoid swamping their networks with a sudden influx of customers. 1 in response to one of many “911 alternative” discussion threads. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. com , cleantraffic[.]net net , execlean[.]net

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets. A typical spear phishing attack follows a familiar pattern of emails with attachments. The aim is to establish a reputation and trust through personalization.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

A joint report published by ENISA and CERT-EU warns of Chinese APTs targeting businesses and government organizations in the European Union. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and CERT-EU warn of multiple China-linked threat actors targeting businesses and government organizations in the EU.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an information disclosure vulnerability that allows hackers to access business networks using the VPN products. If your business needs a reliable method of locating vulnerabilities quickly, check out our list of the best vulnerability scanning tools. through 7.1.1 through 7.0.2 through 6.7.8 through 6.6.3 through 6.5.2

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

More than 1,500 organizations worldwide use OPSWAT products to minimize risk of compromise, including 98% of US nuclear power facilities. OPSWAT makes a variety of other products beyond NAC for application security, industrial cybersecurity, email security, malware analysis, zero trust access, and more.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Helpfully, an email address and nickname apparently connected to the accused offer some additional clues.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the email address used by a cybercriminal actor who offered to sell the stolen ICRC data also was used to register multiple domain names the FBI says are tied to a sprawling media influence operation originating from Iran. “Check your email and send a figure you can pay.” com, sachtimes[.]com,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2023

Popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp was hacked and the data of dozens of customers were exposed. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp was hacked twice in the past six months. “Based on our investigation to date, this targeted incident has been limited to 133 Mailchimp accounts.”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Acohido to share his ideas about the current cyber threat landscape, the biggest threats for businesses today, the role of AI and machine learning in cyberattacks and cyberdefence, and the most effective methods for companies to protect themselves. Erin: What are some of the biggest cyber threats that businesses face today?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach , the incident exposed the data of 133 customers. Based on our investigation to date, this targeted incident has been limited to 133 Mailchimp accounts.” WooCommerce sent a notice related to MailChimp data breach to its users via email.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

CISA has published a report that includes information collected exclusively from several CISA incident response engagements, these data are extremely precious because detail the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors and indicators of compromise (IOCs). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Golang-based worm).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

The identified resources in one of the malicious campaigns impersonate various services appearing to be legitimately created on the “azurefd.net” domain – This allows the bad actors to trick users and spread phishing content to intercept credentials from business applications and e-mail accounts. click” and “.xyz” net – amazon-uk[.]azurefd[.]net.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Related: Coronavirus scams leverage email As we get deeper into dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, the need for authorities and experts to communicate reliably and effectively with each other, as well as to the general public, is vital. Businesses are being heavily targeted, as well. What form is this cyber badness taking?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

In November, Japanese game developer Capcom admitted to have suffered a cyberattack that is impacting business operations. In Mid-November, the company confirmed that the attackers accessed the personal information of its employees, along with financial and business information. Only 9 people were impacted.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The attackers compromised one of the company systems and had access to the emails and documents of some employees. News Corp has hired cybersecurity and incident response firm Mandiant, to assist with the investigation. . As soon as we became aware of the activity, we notified U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Palo Alto also revised their remediation , which now advises four potential levels of fixes (after installing the latest PAN-OS hotfix) based upon detected compromise levels: Unsuccessful exploitation attempt: Create a master key and elect AES-256-GCM. vulnerabilities, so be prepared and develop an incident response plan.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba , one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. ” On September 6, Litvak emailed Google that his clients were willing to discuss settlement. District Court Judge Denise Cote wrote.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Some common questions we get are "Should I click on an unwanted email's 'Unsubscribe' link? Will that lead to more or less unwanted email?" the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act states that businesses must offer clear instructions on how the recipient can remove themselves from the involved mailing list and that request must be honored within 10 days.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages. The payload is a cryptojacking Monero miner.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

” But over the years as trading in hacked databases became big business, RaidForums emerged as the go-to place for English-speaking hackers to peddle their wares. “In an attempt to retrieve his items, Coelho called the lead FBI case agent on or around August 2, 2018, and used the email address unrivalled@pm.me

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hackers got into an email server at the FBI over the weekend to spread fake messages in an attempt to blame a cybersecurity expert for non-existent attacks, apparently in hopes of damaging his reputation. The emails identified the bad actor as Vinny Troia, whom it said was affiliated with the cybercriminal gang TheDarkOverlord.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Once obtained the credentials and session cookies to access users’ mailboxes, threat actors launched business email compromise (BEC) campaigns against other targets. In some of the attacks observed by the experts, threat actors used phishing emails with an HTML file attachment. and certificate-based authentication.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. A GREY MARKET The Impact Team , the hacker group that claimed responsibility for stealing and leaking the AshleyMadison user data, also leaked several years worth of email from then-CEO Noel Biderman.

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