It’s time for another tale of remote desktop disaster, as a newish form of ransomware carves out a name for itself. Bleeping Computer reports that individuals behind Venus ransomware are breaking into “publicly exposed Remote Desktop services”, with the intention of encrypting any and all Windows devices. Since at least August 2022, Venus has been causing chaos and has become rather visible lately.…
Tag: SCAM
Our latest Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2022 highlights the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals’ personal information or payment credentials during July, August and September.
While LinkedIn was the most imitated brand in both Q1 and Q2 2022, it’s shipping company DHL that took the top spot in Q3, accounting for twenty-two percent of all phishing attempts worldwide.…
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Executive SummaryIn May 2021, Palo Alto Networks launched a proactive detector employing state-of-the-art methods to recognize malicious domains at the time of registration, with the aim of identifying them before they are able to engage in harmful activities.…
Fake Windows Defender Alerts weaponized to target users
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A tech support scam is an extensive fraud where the scammer offers a support service for any legitimate entity and lures the victim into contacting the scammer via a fake support helpline number. After contacting the helpline, the scammer gains access to the victim’s machine and can perform activities such as fraudulent transactions, stealing sensitive data, etc.…
By Daksh Kapur · October 6, 2022
What is BazarCall?
As nicely defined in this article by Microsoft:
BazarCall campaigns forgo malicious links or attachments in email messages in favor of phone numbers that recipients are misled into calling. It’s a technique reminiscent of vishing and tech support scams where potential victims are being cold called by the attacker, except in BazarCall’s case, targeted users must dial the number.…
Introduction
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This past month, Trustwave SpiderLabs observed that HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) file attachments had become a common occurrence in our spam traps, which is not unusual since malware is often delivered through phishing spam. For the past 30 days, SpiderLabs has found the combination of .HTML…
The parasitic Water Labbu capitalizes on the social engineering schemes of other scammers, injecting malicious JavaScript code into their malicious decentralized application websites to steal cryptocurrency.
We discovered a threat actor we named Water Labbu that was targeting cryptocurrency scam websites. Typically, cryptocurrency scammers use social engineering techniques, interacting with victims to gain their trust and then manipulating them into providing the permissions needed to transfer cryptocurrency assets.…
While Google Chrome still dominates as the top browser, Microsoft Edge, which is based on the Chromium source code, is gradually gaining more users. Perhaps more importantly, it is the default browser on the Microsoft Windows platform and as such some segments of its user base are of particular interest to fraudsters.…
Scammers impersonating National Tax Agency to steal V-Preca Card details
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During our routine threat-hunting exercise, Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) came across a Twitter post wherein a researcher mentioned a new phishing campaign imitating the page of the National Tax Agency, which targets Japanese users by tricking users into sharing sensitive information with Threat Actors (TAs).…
Mitiga spotted a sophisticated, advanced business email compromise (BEC) campaign, directly targeting relevant executives of organizations (mostly CEOs and CFOs) usingOffice 365. The attackers combine high-end spear-phishing with an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attack to circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a Microsoft 365 design flaw that allows them to create access persistency with MFA.…
Key points from our research:
Robin Banks is a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, first seen in March 2022, selling ready-made phishing kits to cyber criminals aiming to gain access to the financial information of individuals residing in the U.S., as well as the U.K., Canada, and Australia.…Fraudsters have long been leveraging the shady corners of the internet to place malicious adverts, leading users to various scams. However, every now and again we see a campaign that goes mainstream and targets some of the world’s top brands.
Case in point, we recently uncovered a malvertising chain abusing Google’s ad network to redirect visitors to an infrastructure of tech support scams.…
Tech support scams follow a simple business model that has not changed much over the years. After all, why change a recipe that continues to yield large profits.
We see countless such campaigns and block them indiscriminately to protect our customers from being defrauded by a fraudulent tech support agent over the phone.…
Phishing has been a prominent cyber threat for decades, stealing the spotlight as the most prevalent attack vector for years, but the latest breed of attacks is more sophisticated and complicated to protect against than ever before. Attackers are always looking for new techniques to bypass security measures and remain undetected by victims.…
Authored by Vallabh Chole and Oliver Devane
Scammers are very quick at reacting to current events, so they can generate ill-gotten gains. It comes as no surprise that they exploited the current events in Ukraine, and when the Ukrainian Twitter account tweeted Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet addresses for donations we knew that scammers would use this as a lure for their victims.…
Malicious email and phishing scams are usually topical and follow a pattern of current events, and they typically are crafted around calendar and/or trending issues as attackers realize that victims are interested in all things relevant to the moment. Threat actors are aware that not all recipients will bite, but some will, hence the origin of the term “phishing.”…
The post-pandemic world has seen cryptocurrencies and blockchain products in general catapult in valuation and adoption. “Web3”, “DeFi”, and “NFT” have become household terms and the sector is growing so fast that people and businesses are pouring in with dollar signs in their eyes and high hopes to get a piece of the pie.…
Update 05.27.22: An unknown APT group is targeting Russian government entities with at least four separate spear-phishing campaigns since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. Source: Security Affairs.
OverviewBlackBerry Threat Intelligence has identified a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas) family, and tracked its lineage to its probable beta stage release.…
By Edmund Brumaghin, with contributions from Jonathan Byrne, Perceo Lemos and Vasileios Koutsoumpogeras.
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Executive Summary Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, we have observed threat actors using email lures with themes related to the conflict, including humanitarian assistance and various types of fundraising.…Lorenz is a ransomware strain observed first in February of 2021, and is believed to be a rebranding of the “.sZ40” ransomware that was discovered in October 2020. Lorenz targets organizations worldwide with customized attacks demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even millions in ransom fee. …