Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2019
Phishing is one of the oldest methods of cyberattacks. It uses deceptive and manipulated emails as a tool for gathering personal and organizational data. The emails are designed in a way that it appears to be authentic or belonging from a real business or authoritative source. People fell prey for these manipulative emails and provide […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Three Romanian men who have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million. US authorities have sentenced to prison three Romanian men who hacked US servers and used them in a fraud scheme that totaled more than $21 million. The men are Teodor Laurentiu Costea, Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, and Cosmin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
Security researchers at Cofense have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers distributing a new remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as WSH RAT. Security experts at Cofense Phishing Defence Center have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers that is distributing a new remote access trojan tracked as WSH RAT. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Security researcher discovered a browser address bar spoofing flaw that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for Android. Security researcher and bug hunter Arif Khan has discovered a browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for Android. The vulnerability affects latest version of the UC Browser 12.11.2.1184 and UC Browser Mini […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2019
Google this week announced that it is going to block login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) phishing attacks. Phishing attacks carried out by injecting malicious content in legitimate traffic are difficult to detect when attackers use an embedded browser framework or any other automated tool for authentication. For example, the embedded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2019
The NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence team uncovered a credential harvesting campaign tracked as LUCKY ELEPHANT targeting mostly South Asian governments. Security experts at NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence team uncovered a credential harvesting campaign, tracked as LUCKY ELEPHANT, targeting mostly South Asian governments. The campaign was discovered in early March 2019, threat actors behind the LUCKY ELEPHANT campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2019
Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Experts at Proofpoint conducted an interesting study of massive attacks against accounts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2019
Experts at Z-Lab Yoroi/Cybaze have conducted an interesting analysis on the risks for users downloading films, games, and software through Torrent. Digital media sharing is one of the most relevant phenomena since the advent of the internet. During the 80’s and 90’s, with the rapid growth the Internet, people around the world started sharing digital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2019
Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “DHL Shipment Notification” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Muncy is the name dubbed by SI-LAB that analyzed this threat. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. Malicious actors are using SMTP servers leveraging bad […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Security experts at Myki have recently discovered a new phishing campaign that could deceive even most tech-savvy users. The technique relies upon the concept of being able to reproduce a social login prompt in a very realistic format inside an HTML block. Crooks are distributing links to blogs and services that display users “login using […]
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