phishing
Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees
Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. The company told GeekFeed that the incident occurred yesterday on Flight 591 and did not affect the safety of the passengers or aircraft operating systems. “We […]
Levi Strauss & Co. says hackers stole corporate data in cyberattack
Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi’s) says that hackers used social engineering on three of its employees to gain access to and steal corporate data stored on their machines. The company has disclosed the incident in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying that its response was sufficiently quick to prevent the […]
COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool
A phishing campaign is exploiting fears surrounding the recently disclosed COLDCARD wallet vulnerability and suspected $88.6 million Bitcoin theft to trick users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software. Proofpoint, which discovered the campaign, says it uses emails impersonating COLDCARD that claim a security audit is underway across its hardware cold storage wallet devices. The phishing […]
Hotel Wi-Fi attacks use custom malware to breach Microsoft 365 accounts
Microsoft has linked a global campaign targeting hospitality Wi-Fi networks to the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29. The activity was previously disclosed in a report from cybersecurity company ReliaQuest, which detailed how the attacker changed DNS settings on Wi-Fi devices to steal Microsoft 365 accounts. Besides attributing the campaign to Russian hackers tracked […]
New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys
Security researchers have discovered three attacks that allow malware on already-compromised Windows devices to abuse Google Password Manager’s synced passkeys to take over accounts, bypass user verification, and extract passkey private keys. Passkeys are a passwordless authentication method that uses cryptographic keys stored on a user’s device to sign in to online accounts. They are […]
Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
Hackers are changing the DNS settings on Wi-Fi devices at hotels and conference centers to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. The campaign has been ongoing since at least June and impacts organizations in various sectors, including financial services, professional services, legal, health care, energy, and retail. Cybersecurity company ReliaQuest identified compromised Wi-Fi […]
Man gets six years for hacking 750 women’s Snapchat accounts
An Illinois man was sentenced on Tuesday to 76 months in prison and three years of supervised release for hacking the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women to steal nude photos, which he later traded or sold online. After being charged in December, 26-year-old defendant Kyle Svara admitted in February to having used various social engineering tactics to phish […]
Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer
Authorities in Germany and the U.S. dismantled the central infrastructure of Kratos, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform with global reach, and its developer was arrested in Indonesia. During the operation, authorities seized more than 200 servers, effectively disrupting the malicious service and rendering it inoperable. The action was led by Frankfurt’s Prosecutor General Office (ZIT), Germany’s […]
LastPass, Bitwarden users targeted with fake security alerts
LastPass is warning users about an ongoing phishing campaign that is using fake security notices to direct them to fraudulent websites. The phishing emails are crafted to resemble legitimate corporate communications, notifying recipients of updated security policies and directing them to a landing page that impersonates DocuSign and claiming to provide a document for review. […]
New phishing kits target Microsoft 365 accounts, evade MFA
Two new phishing kits, Jalisco and OmegaLord, have been discovered in attacks targeting Microsoft 365 accounts, using techniques that defeat multi-factor authentication (MFA). While Jalisco uses the device-code phishing method, OmegaLord masquerades as a PDF reader to collect account login credentials and associated phone numbers, which could help the attacker intercept or hijack MFA requests […]