phishing
LastPass warns of fake support centers trying to steal customer data
LastPass is warning about an ongoing campaign where scammers are writing reviews for its Chrome extension to promote a fake customer support phone number. However, this phone number is part of a much larger campaign to trick callers into giving scammers remote access to their computers, as discovered by GeekFeed. LastPass is a popular password […]
Over a thousand online shops hacked to show fake product listings
A phishing campaign dubbed ‘Phish n’ Ships’ has been underway since at least 2019, infecting over a thousand legitimate online stores to promote fake product listings for hard-to-find items. Unsuspecting users clicking on those products are redirected to a network of hundreds of fake web stores that steal their personal details and money without shipping […]
Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots
Microsoft is using deceptive tactics against phishing actors by spawning realistic-looking honeypot tenants with access to Azure and lure cybercriminals in to collect intelligence about them. With the collected data, Microsoft can map malicious infrastructure, gain a deeper understanding of sophisticated phishing operations, disrupt campaigns at scale, identify cybercriminals, and significantly slow down their activity. The […]
Bumblebee malware returns after recent law enforcement disruption
The Bumblebee malware loader has been spotted in new attacks recently, more than four months after Europol disrupted it during ‘Operation Endgame’ in May. Believed to be the creation of TrickBot developers, the malware emerged in 2022 as a replacement for the BazarLoader backdoor to provide ransomware threat actors access to victim networks. Bumblebee typically achieves infection via phishing, malvertising, and […]
New Mamba 2FA bypass service targets Microsoft 365 accounts
An emerging phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Mamba 2FA has been observed targeting Microsoft 365 accounts in AiTM attacks using well-crafted login pages. Additionally, Mamba 2FA offers threat actors an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) mechanism to capture the victim’s authentication tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections on their accounts. Mamba 2FA is currently sold to cybercriminals for […]
Clever ‘GitHub Scanner’ campaign abusing repos to push malware
A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute the Lumma Stealer password-stealing malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to email notifications from it. A malicious GitHub user opens a new “issue” on an open source repository falsely claiming that the project contains a “security vulnerability” and urges […]
Police dismantles phone unlocking ring linked to 483,000 victims
A joint law enforcement operation has dismantled an international criminal network that used the iServer automated phishing-as-a-service platform to unlock the stolen or lost mobile phones of 483,000 victims worldwide. The global operation, codenamed “Operation Kaerb,” began in 2022 after Europol received information from cybersecurity firm Group-IB, which contributed to identifying the victims and the criminals behind […]
New Voldemort malware abuses Google Sheets to store stolen data
A new malware campaign is spreading a previously undocumented backdoor named “Voldemort” to organizations worldwide, impersonating tax agencies from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As per a Proofpoint report, the campaign started on August 5, 2024, and has disseminated over 20,000 emails to over 70 targeted organizations, reaching 6,000 in a single day at the […]
Microsoft Sway abused in massive QR code phishing campaign
A massive QR code phishing campaign abused Microsoft Sway, a cloud-based tool for creating online presentations, to host landing pages to trick Microsoft 365 users into handing over their credentials. The attacks were spotted by Netskope Threat Labs in July 2024 after detecting a dramatic 2,000-fold increase in attacks exploiting Microsoft Sway to host phishing […]
New NGate Android malware uses NFC chip to steal credit card data
A new Android malware named NGate can steal money from payment cards by relaying to an attacker’s device the data read by the near-field communication (NFC) chip. Specifically, NGate enables attackers to emulate victims’ cards and make unauthorized payments or withdrawal cash from ATMs.. The campaign has been active since November 2023 and is linked to a recent report […]