Tag: Proofpoint

February 14, 2024

The Bumblebee malware loader seemingly vanished from the internet last October, but it’s back and – oddly – relying on a vintage vector to try and gain access. First spotted in 2022 by researchers at Proofpoint – who identified it […]

May 12, 2022

A newly discovered and complex remote access trojan (RAT) is spreading via malicious email campaigns using COVID-19 lures and includes numerous features to evade analysis or detection by researchers, Proofpoint has found. Dubbed Nerbian RAT, the novel malware variant is […]

March 21, 2022

An advanced threat actor has been spotted using distinctive, novel methods to backdoor French entities in the construction, real estate, and government industries. How the attack unfolds The attack starts with a well-known technique – emails containing a macro-enabled Microsoft […]

February 4, 2022

The increased use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) has pushed developers of phishing kits to come up with ways to bypass that added account protection measure. A current popular solution? Phishing kits that use a transparent reverse proxy to present the […]

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 […]

October 19, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday took the wraps off a mass volume email attack staged by a prolific cybercriminal gang affecting a wide range of industries, with one of its region-specific operations notably targeting Germany and Austria. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint […]

March 23, 2020

Have you secured your streaming services’ accounts? Are you sure someone else, unbeknown to you, isn’t using them as well? As people around the world are being asked to remain in their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic, many are […]

May 14, 2018

Marketing, PR, and advertising firms are among those being targeted. A low-volume data-stealing campaign with the potential to get much bigger has begun targeting retail and manufacturing companies and also a select list of marketing, advertising, and public relations firms. […]

August 28, 2017

Earlier this month, researchers at Proofpoint spotted a targeted ransomware campaign against education and healthcare organizations. The ransomware used in the campaign was dubbed Defray, based on the command and control (C&C) server hostname used for the first observed attack: […]

September 8, 2015

The more things change, the more things stay the same — at least for hackers. That’s one of the finding in #proofpoint‘s mid-year threat report on the #attacks of choice for the first half of #2015. In addition to the […]