LinkedIn Phishing Scam Uses Fake Notifications to Hijack Accounts

A LinkedIn phishing scam uses fake notifications and lookalike domains to steal credentials, hijack accounts, and access sensitive professional data...

A week in security (January 12 – January 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: WhisperPair exposes Bluetooth earbuds and headphones to tracking and eavesdropping Dutch police sell fake tickets to show how easily scams work "Reprompt" attack lets attackers steal data from Microsoft Copilot Phishing scammers are posting fake "account restricted...

5 Reasons Why Attackers Are Phishing Over LinkedIn

Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 1 in 3 phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps. LinkedIn in particular has become a hotbed for phishing attacks, and for good reason. Attackers are running...

North Korean Hackers Use EtherHiding to Hide Malware Inside Blockchain Smart Contracts

A threat actor with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka North Korea has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method. The activity has been...

FIN6 Uses AWS-Hosted Fake Resumes on LinkedIn to Deliver More_eggs Malware

The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN6 has been observed leveraging fake resumes hosted on Amazon Web Services AWS infrastructure to deliver a malware family called Moreeggs. "By posing as job seekers and initiating conversations through platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, the group...

LinkedIn Phishing Scam: Fake InMail Messages Spreading ConnectWise Trojan

Cofense uncovers new LinkedIn phishing scam delivering ConnectWise RAT. Learn how attackers bypass security with fake InMail emails…...

Hackers Targeting professionals With 'more_eggs' Malware via LinkedIn Job Offers

A new spear-phishing campaign is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with weaponized job offers in an attempt to infect targets with a sophisticated backdoor trojan called "moreeggs." To increase the odds of success, the phishing lures take advantage of malicious ZIP archive files that have the...

A week in security (November 9 – November 15)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we reported on multiple patch releases: from Mozillas Firefox and Thunderbird to Googles Chrome. We also had a chat with our resident experts, Adam Kujawa and John Donovan, about the future of IoT cybersecurity in our latest Lock and Code podcast episode. Lastly, w...