Tag: phishing email

March 24, 2023

A recent campaign undertaken by Earth Preta indicates that nation-state groups aligned with China are getting increasingly proficient at bypassing security solutions. The threat actor, active since at least 2012, is tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under Bronze President, […]

January 10, 2023

A new malware campaign has been observed targeting Italy with phishing emails designed to deploy an information stealer on compromised Windows systems. “The info-stealer malware steals sensitive information like system info, crypto wallet and browser histories, cookies, and credentials of […]

October 27, 2022

Check Point Research has published its Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2022, which highlights the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals’ personal information or payment credentials during July, August and September. Most […]

September 1, 2022

Security researchers have identified a previously unknown group dubbed “JuiceLedger” as the threat actor behind a recent and first-known phishing campaign specifically targeting users of the Python Package Index (PyPI). The threat actor first surfaced early this year and is […]

December 7, 2021

Threat actors are increasingly using phishing emails related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the new omicron variant to target universities and steal login credentials, new research published Tuesday found. According to a report from cybersecurity group Proofpoint, hackers have targeted […]

August 4, 2021

Microsoft is warning about an ongoing, “sneakier than usual” phishing campaign aimed at Office 365 users. The phishing emails The phishers are using various themes as lures, and the emails are sent from email addresses from various top-level domains. The […]

March 22, 2021

Recent research shows that email scammers are sending less malware-infected messages. Instead they are choosing to use phishing techniques to steal credentials directly because they are harder to detect. First of all, what is phishing? In simple terms, phishing is […]

September 22, 2020

Phishing ranks low on the list of cyberattacks in terms of technological sophistication. Even more sophisticated phishing variants like spear phishing (focused and often personalized phishing attacks) and whaling (phishing attacks focused on high-profile or high-dollar targets) are focused more […]

September 19, 2019

Relatively new and fairly simple, the Amadey botnet is available for hire for cybercriminals. One of the threat groups to have used the botnet is TA505, which leveraged it to distribute the FlawedAmmy RAT and email stealers. The phishing campaign, […]

April 17, 2015

Pawn Storm, the long-standing economic and political #cyber–#espionage operation that has been first detailed in October 2014, continues unabated. Aiming to compromise the targets’ computers and Outlook accounts, the attackers send spear-phishing emails carrying malware and compromise websites to redirect […]

April 15, 2015

IF YOU WORK in IT #security, you’ve got one minute and 20 seconds to save your company from being hacked. This is not a drill. It’s the median time it takes for an employee to open a #phishing email that […]

April 8, 2015

“An experienced and resource-backed cybercrime gang” is using the relatively new Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan coupled with effective social engineering to steal millions from businesses, IBM Security Intelligence researchers John Kuhn and Lance Mueller warned. The campaign, dubbed “Dyre Wolf” is still […]

April 7, 2015

Two new #malware campaigns have been spotted in the Middle East, according to reports released this week, one targeting energy companies and the other going after political targets in Israel and Lebanon. Symantec researchers observed a brand-new information-gathering tool, Trojan.Laziok, […]

March 6, 2013

Following is the message detail of the #phishing email purports to be from Delta Airlines sent from spoofed email address: #scam target: Email Email subject: Your eTicket and receipt Your Electronic Ticket Your eTicket Scam messages: Delta Airlines Phishing Email: […]