Hackers Are Going ‘Deep-Sea Phishing,’ So What Can You Do About It?

Hackers are upping their game, using an approach I call “Deep Sea Phishing,” which is the use of a combination of the techniques described below to become more aggressive. To keep pace, cybersecurity innovators have been working diligently to develop tools, techniques and resources to improve...

A New Wave of Malware Attack Targeting Organizations in South America

A spam campaign delivering spear-phishing emails aimed at South American organizations has retooled its techniques to include a wide range of commodity remote access trojans RATs and geolocation filtering to avoid detection, according to new research. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro attributed the...

The vulnerability of DNS-client TCP/IP clients of NicheLite and InterNiche allows attackers to perform spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability of TCP/IP client applications of NicheLite and InterNiche is related to deficiencies in prediction capabilities. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

The vulnerability of the authentication system for web applications, LemonLDAP::NG, related to an error in processing authentication keys, allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of the authentication system for web applications related to the error in processing authentication keys controlled by users. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Linux Implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon Targeting Organizations Worldwide

Researchers on Monday took the wraps off a newly discovered Linux and Windows re-implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon that's actively set its sights on government, telecommunications, information technology, and financial institutions in the wild. The as-yet undetected version of the penetratio...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Enterprise Server, related to information representation errors in the user interface, allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Enterprise Server lies in information representation errors in the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

FIN7 Hackers Using Windows 11 Themed Documents to Drop Javascript Backdoor

A recent wave of spear-phishing campaigns leveraged weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents with Visual Basic macros to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript implant, against a point-of-sale PoS service provider located in the U.S. The attacks, which are believed to have taken...

New variant of Konni malware used in campaign targetting Russia

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi In late July 2021, we identified an ongoing spear phishing campaign pushing Konni Rat to target Russia. Konni was first observed in the wild in 2014 and has been potentially linked to the North Korean APT group named APT37. We discovered two documents...

Confucius Uses Pegasus Spyware-related Lures to Target Pakistani Military

While investigating the Confucius threat actor, we found a recent spear phishing campaign that utilizes Pegasus spyware-related lures to entice victims into opening a malicious document downloading a file stealer...

WordPress Sites Abused in Aggah Spear-Phishing Campaign

Threat actors are using compromised WordPress websites to target manufacturers across Asia with a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers the Warzone RAT, a commodity infostealer available widely for purchase on criminal forums, researchers have found. The threat group Aggah, believed to be...

Using AI to Scale Spear Phishing

The problem with spear phishing is that it takes time and creativity to create individualized enticing phishing emails. Researchers are using GPT-3 to attempt to solve that problem: The researchers used OpenAIs GPT-3 platform in conjunction with other AI-as-a-service products focused on personali...

The vulnerability of the Windows LSA component in the Windows Server operating system allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of the Windows LSA component in the Windows Server operating system is related to information representation errors in the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spoofing attacks remotely...

The vulnerability of the Mozilla Firefox browser, related to information representation errors, allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of the Mozilla Firefox browser is related to errors in the object model representation of documents. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Spear phishing attacks underline how much dangerous phishing has gotten

By Waqas Today’s phishing attacks are more sophisticated as attackers have moved on in some cases from going after individuals to targeting businesses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Spear phishing attacks underline how much dangerous phishing has gotten...

The vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser, related to insufficient validation of data entered by users, allows attackers to carry out spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser is related to insufficient validation of the data entered by users in the “Downloads” folder. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to carry out spear-phishing attacks using a specially created malicious web page...

A week in security (July 26 – August 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: OSX.XLoader hides little except its main purpose: What we learned in the installation process. The Clubhouse database “breach” is likely a non-breach. Here’s why. Kaseya Unitrends has unpatched vulnerabilities that could help attackers expand a breach. UDP Technolo...

Spear-phishing now targets employees outside the finance and executive teams, report says

Social engineering attacks have been a longstanding concern for both individuals and organizations alike. The trend, as we know it, is that fraudsters conducting spear phishing attacks—specifically, business email compromise BEC—are likely to target employees either in the finance or executive...

China's Cyberspies Targeting Southeast Asian Government Entities

A sweeping and "highly active campaign" that originally set its sights on Myanmar has broadened its focus to strike a number of targets located in the Philippines, according to new research. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which first spotted the infections in October 2020, attributed them ...

LuminousMoth APT: Sweeping attacks for the chosen few

APT actors are known for the frequently targeted nature of their attacks. Typically, they will handpick a set of targets that in turn are handled with almost surgical precision, with infection vectors, malicious implants and payloads being tailored to the victims identities or environment. Its no...

Oil & Gas Targeted in Year-Long Espionage Campaign

A sophisticated campaign targeting large international companies in the oil and gas sector has been underway for more than a year, researchers said, spreading common remote access trojans RATs for cyber-espionage purposes. According to Intezer analysis, spear-phishing emails with malicious...