Since resuming operations after a holiday hiatus, the malicious actors behind the Emotet banking trojan network have reportedly targeted at least 82 countries with spam and crafted a special phishing campaign targeting the United Nations. Meanwhile, an additional report has revealed an increase in Emotet phishing activity targeting government and military entities over the last…
A U.S. district court issued an order enabling Microsoft to take over 50 domains used by a North Korea-based cybercrime gang to conduct spear phishing campaigns. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center took down the domains controlled by a group it named Thallium after researching the malicious actors activity and filing…
An Emotet banking trojan phishing campaign was spotted using the name of activist Greta Thunberg as a lure to target individuals concerned with climate change. The attackers behind the campaign recently sent out fake invitations to a nonexistent “climate crisis” demonstration supposedly led by the young Swedish activist, who was named Time’s 2019 Person of…
Researchers recently discovered a large-scale phishing email operation that has been targeting primarily customers of Canadian banking chains since at least 2017. The emails generally attempt to trick recipients into revealing their credentials on a phishing page that utilizes a lookalike domain and impersonates a log-in screen. Researchers with Check Point Software Technologies uncovered the…
PayPal customers are being hit with a phishing scam designed to steal their login credentials and other PII through a series of well-crafted emails and fraudulent websites. An incident begins with an email stating that there has been some unusual activity on the person’s PayPal account that requires immediate attention in order to properly secure…
Google yesterday announced that its latest Chrome release adds real-time phishing alerts and password breach warning capabilities to the browser. The real-time anti-phishing capabilities represents an upgrade to Google’s Safe Browsing service, which compiles an ever-changing blacklist of dangerous websites that browsers can check against. Typically, when a Chrome user visits a website, the browser…
Cybercriminals are reportedly attempting to trick users of the Steam video game digital distribution service into visiting a phishing site that pretends to give away new game skins, but actually steals login credentials. Researcher “nullcookies” first reported the fraudulent giveaway promotion in a Twitter post late last month. BleepingComputer followed up on the post and…
Attackers have been actively exploiting an Android vulnerability that allows malicious apps to display dangerous permission requests and phishing overlays under the guise of a legitimate app. Dubbed StrandHogg (an old Norse Viking term), the flaw resides in Android’s taskAffinity control setting, and can be successfully abused without having to first gain root access, according…
It’s one thing for employees to receive a phishing email that is purposefully crafted or spoofed to look like a genuine online communication. But when happens when people receive an actual, legitimate email that accidentally looks like a phishing scam? According to a report from TechCrunch, this exact scenario took place last week when cloud-based…
Since October, a threat actor has been impersonating governmental agencies in phishing emails designed to infect American, German and Italian organizations with various forms of malware, including the Cobalt Strike backdoor, Maze ransomware and the IcedID banking trojan. Business and IT services, manufacturing companies, and healthcare organizations make up a large share of the targets…
