Beware of this bogus (and phishy) “Instagram Support” email

Recently, a fake Instagram email successfully bypassed Googles email filters and made it into hundreds of employee inboxes used by a prominent US life insurance company based in New York. This was revealed in a report by Armorblox, a cybersecurity company specializing in stopping business email...

‘CryptoRom’ Crypto Scam is Back via Side-Loaded Apps

For about a year now, crypto-traders and lovelorn singles alike have been losing their money to CryptoRom, a malware campaign that combines catfishing with crypto-scamming. According to research from Sophos, CryptoRom’s perpetrators have now improved their techniques. They’re leveraging new iOS...

Fake Royal Mail chatbot offers up…a new iPhone?

Royal Mail scams are always popular techniques for people up to no good. We’ve covered them several times over the last year or so. A quick reminder: Your parcel is waiting for delivery This is the go-to tactic for fake Royal Mail phishing attacks. You receive a text claiming there’s a parcel in...

A week in security (March 7 – March 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: The struggle to reduce bug-fixing time is real Update now! Mozilla patches two actively exploited vulnerabilities Google takes on Docs notification spammers When fake dating profiles try the military approach Azure AutoWarp brings automation headaches RagnarLocker...

Extortion scheme impersonates government officials, law enforcement

The FBI issued a public warning this week about a fraud scheme wherein scammers impersonate government officials and law enforcement personnel. According to the PSA, the scammers spoof legitimate numbers and names and use fake credentials of well-known members of the government and law enforcemen...

Talos Threat Source newsletter (March 10, 2022) — Fake social media posts spread in wake of Ukraine invasion

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter — complete with a new format and feel. First off, it goes without saying, but we’re all heartbroken by the crisis happening in Ukraine. Our hearts are with the people of Ukraine, our employees and their... This is only...

Fake Antivirus Apps on Play Store Loaded with SharkBot Banking Trojan

By Deeba Ahmed The SharkBot trojan was found in four fake antivirus apps on Google Play Store collectively boasting 57,000 downloads.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Antivirus Apps on Play Store Loaded with SharkBot Banking Trojan...

Meta blocks Russia-Ukraine disinformation campaigns on Facebook, Instagram

Meta says it has detected and removed two disinformation campaigns regarding the current Russia-Ukraine war. These campaigns, it says, were run by groups in Russia and Ukraine to target Ukraine users. In the post, Nathaniel Gleicher, Metas head of security policy, and David Agranovich, Metas...

An Elaborate Employment Con in the Internet Age

The story is an old one, but the tech gives it a bunch of new twists: Gemma Brett, a 27-year-old designer from west London, had only been working at Madbird for two weeks when she spotted something strange. Curious about what her commute would be like when the pandemic was over, she searched for...

GSD-2022-1000283 Multiple vulnerabilities in NFT version All

A phishing attack was conducted against users of the Opensea.io NFT platform, resulting in 17 users losing approx. $1.7 Million USD in NFTs. This incident appears to include email phishing, a fake website, bad wallet UI that make it difficult for users to know exactly what is going on and use of...

Sifchain: Subdomain Takeover on proxies.sifchain.finance pointing to vercel

Hello Team, Subdomain takeover vulnerabilities occur when a subdomain subdomain.example.com is pointing to a service e.g. GitHub pages, Heroku, etc. that has been removed or deleted. This allows an attacker to set up a page on the service that was being used and point their page to that subdomain...

Fake Windows website dropped Redline malware as Windows 11 upgrade

By Waqas The domain name used by threat actors in this campaign was convincing enough to trick users into downloading… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Windows website dropped Redline malware as Windows 11 upgrade...

Don’t let scammers ruin your Valentine’s Day

Today is Valentines Day, so we thought wed show you how cybercriminals use special times like this one for phishing attacks. Our Valentines story starts with a victim receiving an email message. The email urges them to open an attached file, and also contains well formatted content that tries to...

CVE-2022-23425

Improper input validation in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Feb-2022 Release 1 allows attackers to send arbitrary NAS signaling messages with fake base station...

CVE-2022-23425

Improper input validation in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Feb-2022 Release 1 allows attackers to send arbitrary NAS signaling messages with fake base station...

CVE-2022-23425

Improper input validation in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Feb-2022 Release 1 allows attackers to send arbitrary NAS signaling messages with fake base station...

Input validation

Improper input validation in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Feb-2022 Release 1 allows attackers to send arbitrary NAS signaling messages with fake base station...

CVE-2022-23425

Improper input validation in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Feb-2022 Release 1 allows attackers to send arbitrary NAS signaling messages with fake base station...

FBI warns of bogus job postings on recruitment sites

Before Christmas was a busy time down at the fake job factory, with all manner of dubious antics out to ruin someone’s day. We’re now info February and the bogus job offers show no sign of abating. In fact, the FBI considers it to be such a problem that its issued an alert. This isn’t your typica...

Nintendo warns of imitation websites and suspicious hardware

Brave indeed is the soul who decides to take on Nintendo with scam-filled behaviour online. The console legends have a long history of crunching down on fraud, as well as gaming past-times some would consider to be harmless. Whether you create fan-made games, offer up plundered ROMs for use in...