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How cyberattacks on companies affect everyone
If you use the internet, you’ve likely been affected by cybercrime in some way. Even when an attack is aimed at a company, the fallout usually lands on ordinary people. The most obvious harm is stolen data. When attackers break into a business, it is usually customer information that ends up in...
Inside RedVDS: How a single virtual desktop provider fueled worldwide cybercriminal operations
Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the proliferation of RedVDS, a virtual dedicated server VDS provider used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to commit business email compromise BEC, mass phishing, account takeover, and financial fraud. Microsoft’s...
Inside RedVDS: How a single virtual desktop provider fueled worldwide cybercriminal operations
Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the proliferation of RedVDS, a virtual dedicated server VDS provider used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to commit business email compromise BEC, mass phishing, account takeover, and financial fraud. Microsoft’s...
Invoicely Database Leak Exposes 180,000 Sensitive Records
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered nearly 180,000 files, including PII and banking details, left exposed on an unprotected database linked to the Invoicely platform. Read about the identity theft and financial fraud risks for over 250,000 businesses worldwide...
Credential Theft and Remote Access Surge as AllaKore, PureRAT, and Hijack Loader Proliferate
Mexican organizations are still being targeted by threat actors to deliver a modified version of AllaKore RAT and SystemBC as part of a long-running campaign. The activity has been attributed by Arctic Wolf Labs to a financially motivated hacking group called Greedy Sponge. It's believed to be...
PhishIntentionLLM: Uncovering Phishing Website Intentions through Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Phishing websites remain a major cybersecurity threat, yet existing methods primarily focus on detection, while the recognition of underlying malicious intentions remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we propose PhishIntentionLLM, a multi-agent retrieval-augmented generation RAG...
“Follow me” to this fake crypto exchange to claim $500
A type of crypto scam that we reported about in 2024 has ported over to a new platform and changed tactics—a bit. Where the old scams mostly reached me on WhatsApp, the same group of scammers is now using Direct Messages on X. However, the same old trick of "accidentally" sending you login detail...
Microsoft Warns of ClickFix Phishing Campaign Targeting Hospitality Sector via Fake Booking[.]com Emails
Microsoft has shed light on an ongoing phishing campaign that has targeted the hospitality sector by impersonating online travel agency Booking.com using an increasingly popular social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver credential-stealing malware. The activity, the tech giant's...
Phishing campaign impersonates Booking .com, delivers a suite of credential-stealing malware
Starting in December 2024, leading up to some of the busiest travel days, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a phishing campaign that impersonates online travel agency Booking.com and targets organizations in the hospitality industry. The campaign uses a social engineering technique called...
Hackers Use CAPTCHA Trick on Webflow CDN PDFs to Bypass Security Scanners
A widespread phishing campaign has been observed leveraging bogus PDF documents hosted on the Webflow content delivery network CDN with an aim to steal credit card information and commit financial fraud. "The attacker targets victims searching for documents on search engines, resulting in access ...
20 million OpenAI accounts offered for sale
A cybercriminal acting under the moniker “emirking” offered 20 million OpenAI user login credentials this week, sharing what appeared to be samples of the stolen data itself. Post by emirking A translation of the Russian statement by the poster says: “When I realized that OpenAI might have to...
Valley News Live exposed more than a million job seeker’s resumes
Making your own bad news is not what Valley News Live had in mind, but negligence comes at a price. Cybernews researchers found an unprotected AWS S3 bucket that belongs to Take Valley News Live, a North Dakota-based television station. Gray Television, the owner of Valley News Live, makes for th...
US Charges Five in North Korean IT Worker Hiring Scam
US prosecutors charged five, including North Koreans, for tricking firms into hiring fake IT workers, sending $866K+ to…...
How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks
A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this...
Improper Role Modification by Admins for Billing Permissions
Description Admins, who do not have direct permissions to access billing resources, are able to change the permissions of existing users to have billing permissions. This can lead to a privilege escalation scenario where an administrator can: 1. Change the role of an existing user to include...
TrickMo Banking Trojan Can Now Capture Android PINs and Unlock Patterns
New variants of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo have been found to harbor previously undocumented features to steal a device's unlock pattern or PIN. "This new addition enables the threat actor to operate on the device even while it is locked," Zimperium security researcher Aazim Yaswant...
Microsoft Detects Growing Use of File Hosting Services in Business Email Compromise Attacks
Microsoft is warning of cyber attack campaigns that abuse legitimate file hosting services such as SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dropbox that are widely used in enterprise environments as a defense evasion tactic. The end goal of the campaigns are broad and varied, allowing threat actors to compromis...
Binance Warns of Rising Clipper Malware Attacks Targeting Cryptocurrency Users
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is warning of an "ongoing" global threat that's targeting cryptocurrency users with clipper malware with the goal of facilitating financial fraud. Clipper malware, also called ClipBankers, is a type of malware that Microsoft calls cryware, which comes with...
U.S. Dismantles World's Largest 911 S5 Botnet with 19 Million Infected Devices
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to commit a wide array of offenses. The botnet, which has a global...
“Pig butchering” is an evolution of a social engineering tactic we’ve seen for years
Whether you want to call them "catfishing," "pig butchering" or just good old-fashioned "social engineering," romance scams have been around forever. I was first introduced to them through the MTV show "Catfish," but recently they seem to be making headlines as the term "pig butchering" enters th...