SpearPhishing

HHS: Health Care IT Helpdesks Under Attack in Voice Scams
Jeffrey Burt | | cyberattacks in healthcare, Generative AI risks, healthcare, helpdesk, MFA, social engineering, SpearPhishing, Voice Cloning
Scammers are impersonating employees in voice calls to gain access to healthcare organizations' systems and steal money, the agency says ...
Security Boulevard

Russian FSB Targets US and UK Politicians in Sneaky Spear-Phish Plan
Richi Jennings | | 2FA phishing, advanced phishing threats, Aleksandrovich Peretuatko, Alexey Doguzhiev, Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets, Callisto Group, center 18, Evilginx, Federal Security Service, five eyes, FSB, linkedin, Phishing, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, russian, Russian Cyber Interests, Russian Cyber War, Russian FSB, SB Blogwatch, Seaborgium, spear fishing, spear phishing attacks, spear-phishing, SpearPhishing, Star Blizzard, TA446
TA446’s new TTPs: “Star Blizzard” FSB team called out by Five Eyes governments (again) ...
Security Boulevard

Spear Phishing: How It Happens & Why You May Be at Risk
Cindy Murphy | | Beyond Hashed Out, Hashing Out Cyber Security, Phishing, spear-phishing, SpearPhishing
When phishing gets hyper-focused, it becomes more convincing. Learn how to spot a spear phishing attack before you “click here.” No matter what technology is available, deception is a critical... The post ...
Five Cloud Security Considerations for CISOs
Kowsik Guruswamy | | byod, Cloud apps, Cloud Security, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, email security, HTTPS, new normal, Phishing, SaaS, SpearPhishing, VPN, Web security
Discover How You Can Protect Users and the Organization in Today’s New Normal The past six months have been a whirlwind of change. Security teams across the world have scrambled to empower ...

Phishing Campaign Targets FINRA in Search for Microsoft Office or SharePoint Credentials
Silviu STAHIE | | FINRA, Industry News, Microsoft Office, passwords, Phishing, sharepoint, SpearPhishing
A new phishing campaign is targeting members of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), with emails purporting to be from FINRA officers. The goal is to obtain the members’ user names and passwords ...

Cybercriminals are using Google reCAPTCHA to hide their phishing attacks
Graham Cluley | | google phishing, Google reCAPTCHA, Industry News, reCAPTCHA pishing, reCAPTCHA version 3, SpearPhishing
I doubt any of us would claim to be fans of CAPTCHA – the puzzles that a website asks you to complete to prove if you’re a human being or not. Unscrambling ...

Oil & Gas Spearphishing Campaigns Drop Agent Tesla Spyware in Advance of Historic OPEC+ Deal
Liviu Arsene | | Anti-Malware Research, energy sector, energy spearphishing, oil & gas malware, Oil and Gas, oil&gas, OPEC, SpearPhishing
Bitdefender researchers have recently found spearphishing campaigns, either impersonating a well-known Egyptian engineering contractor or a shipment company, dropping the Agent Tesla spyware Trojan. The impersonated engineering contractor (Enppi – Engineering for ...

Netflix Phishing Campaign Spikes in Brazil with Account Update/Suspended Tricks
Liviu Arsene | | Anti-Malware Research, coronavirus threats, COVID-19, netfix scam, netflix spam, netflix spearphishing, SpearPhishing
With many of us stuck at home because of the pandemic, it’s only natural that streaming services will experience a surge in members and traffic. Netflix is clearly among them, and to ...

New Homograph Phishing Attack Impersonates Bank of Valletta, Leverages Valid TLS Certificate
Liviu Arsene | | Anti-Malware Research, Bank of Valletta, homograph phishing, IDN homograph phishing, Miscellaneous, phishing attack, SpearPhishing
Bitdefender researchers recently uncovered a new IDN (internationalized domain name) homograph phishing attack in which attackers impersonate the Bank of Valletta, Malta. Bitdefender’s Deep Learning technologies, trained specifically to spot this type ...

China accused of running industrial cyberespionage operation to steal US aviation and technological data
Luana Pascu | | aviation, Chinese Intelligence, domain hijacking, industrial cyberespionage, Industry News, SpearPhishing, technological secrets
Between 2010 and 2015, Chinese operatives together with hackers and company insiders working at a facility in Jiangsu, China, allegedly engaged in a major industrial cyberespionage operation targeting a US – French ...