Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2020
Microsoft discovered a new phishing campaign using COVID-19 lures to target businesses with the infamous LokiBot information-stealer. Microsoft has discovered a new COVID-19 themed phishing campaign targeting businesses with the LokiBot Trojan. Lokibot was already employed in Coronavirus-themed campaigns, early of April, security experts at FortiGuard Labs discovered phishing attacks using alleged messages from the World Health Organization […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2020
Researchers discovered a set of issues impacting Oracle’s iPlanet Web Server that could result in sensitive data exposure and limited injection attacks. Researchers discovered two security flaws impacting Oracle’s iPlanet Web Server, tracked as CVE-2020-9315 and CVE-2020-9314, that could cause sensitive data exposure and limited injection attacks. The flaws have been discovered by experts at Nightwatch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2020
Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, observed the growth of the lifespan of phishing attacks in the second half of 2019. This trend, revealed by Group-IBâs Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), resulted in the tremendous increase in the number of phishing websites blockages over the given period â it rose by over 230 percent year-on-year. In 2019 in general, web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2020
Phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. Abnormal Security experts observed two separate phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams that targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. The popularity of Microsoft Teams has spiked as a result of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2020
Google warns that nation-backed hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to organizations involved in the fight against the pandemic. Google is warning that nation-state actors are exploiting the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic to target health care organizations and entities involved in the fight against the pandemic. Googleâs Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2020
The increasing number of news articles circulating on the internet in the wake of COVID-19 has resulted in the rise of Phishing attacks which feed on peopleâs fears. Phishing emails have been driven up to 600% since the end of February as cybercriminals capitalize on peopleâs fears. COVID-19 phishing emails have been said to make […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2020
Threat Report Portugal Q1 2020: Phishing and malware by numbers. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is a novel open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed by Segurança-InformĂĄtica. This feed is based on automatic searches and also has a strong contribution from the community. This makes it a reliable and trustworthy and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2020
Google says that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week. Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days. The IT giant also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2020
The report focuses on phishing kits â the driving force of the phishing industry, which is hard to detect but extremely valuable in terms of fight against phishing. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has found out that phishing kits are the new bestsellers of the underground market, with the number of phishing kit ads on underground forums and their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2020
PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Experts from Paloalto Unit 42 published a report that analyzes the cross-section between the various types of Coronavirus-themed attacks aimed at organizations in different industries. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that […]
