SpearPhishing
Iranian-Backed Hackers Turn Their Fake Job Recruitment Scams on Europe
The Iranian-linked Nimbus Manticore, which has run fraudulent job recruiting campaigns primarily in the Middle East, is targeting Western Europe in a new operation that includes using an enhanced backdoor called MiniJunk ...
HHS: Health Care IT Helpdesks Under Attack in Voice Scams
Scammers are impersonating employees in voice calls to gain access to healthcare organizations' systems and steal money, the agency says ...
Russian FSB Targets US and UK Politicians in Sneaky Spear-Phish Plan
TA446’s new TTPs: “Star Blizzard” FSB team called out by Five Eyes governments (again) ...
Spear Phishing: How It Happens & Why You May Be at Risk
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
