Tag: email
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Cybercriminals Use Fake Invoices to Deploy XWorm and Steal Login Credentials
Cybercriminals are deploying sophisticated phishing campaigns that weaponize seemingly legitimate invoice emails to distribute Backdoor.XWorm is a dangerous remote-access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive credentials, recording keystrokes, and installing ransomware. Security researchers have uncovered an active malware distribution operation using Visual Basic Script attachments disguised as routine business correspondence, representing a dangerous evolution of social…
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Fake spam filter alerts are hitting inboxes
A new phishing campaign is attempting to trick users into believing they’ve missed important emails, security researchers are warning. The emails The bogus email alerts look … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/13/phishing-spam-filter-alert/
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Fake spam filter alerts are hitting inboxes
A new phishing campaign is attempting to trick users into believing they’ve missed important emails, security researchers are warning. The emails The bogus email alerts look … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/13/phishing-spam-filter-alert/
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Phishing Emails Alert: How Spam Filters Can Steal Your Email Logins in an Instant
Cybercriminals have launched a sophisticated phishing campaign that exploits trust in internal security systems by spoofing email delivery notifications to appear as legitimate spam-filter alerts within organizations. These deceptive emails are designed to steal login credentials that could compromise email accounts, cloud storage, and other sensitive systems. “‹ The attack begins with an email claiming…
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DNS DDoS Attacks Explained And Why Cloud DNS Is The Solution
Every time you load a webpage, send an email, or stream a video, the Domain Name System (DNS) silently performs its critical duty, translating easy-to-read names into complex numerical IP addresses. This fundamental function makes it the Achilles’ heel of the modern internet. As an essential service that all users and applications must rely on,……
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Cisco 0-Days, AI Bug Bounties, Crypto Heists, State-Linked Leaks and 20 More Stories
Behind every click, there’s a risk waiting to be tested. A simple ad, email, or link can now hide something dangerous. Hackers are getting smarter, using new tools to sneak past filters and turn trusted systems against us.But security teams are fighting back. They’re building faster defenses, better ways to spot attacks, and stronger systems…
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Google asks US court to shut down Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service operation
Tags: control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, email, google, government, incident response, law, malicious, network, phishing, risk, sans, scam, service, smishing, technology, threatWill have ‘minimal impact’: Ed Dubrovsky, chief operating officer of incident response firm Cypher, is skeptical of the effectiveness of court action. Phishing-as-a-service operations don’t have to be on American soil, he explained, so court orders and legislation will likely have minimal impact on smishing or phishing attacks.”However,” he added, “I can understand that even…
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Prompt Injection in AI Browsers
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants: A new attack called ‘CometJacking’ exploits URL parameters to pass to Perplexity’s Comet AI browser hidden instructions that allow access to sensitive data from connected services, like email and calendar. In a realistic scenario, no credentials or user interaction are required and a threat…
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Prompt Injection in AI Browsers
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants: A new attack called ‘CometJacking’ exploits URL parameters to pass to Perplexity’s Comet AI browser hidden instructions that allow access to sensitive data from connected services, like email and calendar. In a realistic scenario, no credentials or user interaction are required and a threat…
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Prompt Injection in AI Browsers
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants: A new attack called ‘CometJacking’ exploits URL parameters to pass to Perplexity’s Comet AI browser hidden instructions that allow access to sensitive data from connected services, like email and calendar. In a realistic scenario, no credentials or user interaction are required and a threat…
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Phishing Scam Uses Big-Name Brands to Steal Logins
A recent investigation by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign exploiting globally recognized and regional brands to steal user credentials, marking an escalation in adversary tradecraft and reach. Unlike conventional phishing threats, this operation delivers meticulously crafted HTML attachments often camouflaged as procurement documents or invoices directly through email,…
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Phishing Scam Uses Big-Name Brands to Steal Logins
A recent investigation by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign exploiting globally recognized and regional brands to steal user credentials, marking an escalation in adversary tradecraft and reach. Unlike conventional phishing threats, this operation delivers meticulously crafted HTML attachments often camouflaged as procurement documents or invoices directly through email,…
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Beware of Security Alert-Themed Malicious Emails that Steal Your Email Logins
A sophisticated phishing campaign is currently targeting email users with deceptive security alert notifications that appear to originate from their own organization’s domain. The phishing emails are crafted to resemble legitimate security notifications from email delivery systems. These messages inform recipients that specific messages have been blocked and require manual release a premise designed to…
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Phishers try to lure 5K Facebook advertisers with fake business pages
One company alone was hit with more than 4,200 emails First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/5k_facebook_advertising_customers_phishing/
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Crypto-less Crypto Investment Scams: A California Case
Tags: access, apt, blockchain, breach, business, china, communications, control, crime, crypto, cybercrime, data, email, finance, group, intelligence, international, jobs, network, office, organized, scam, theft, tool, usaMy readers will know by now that I am addicted to PACER – the Public Access to Court Electronic Records. When I see headlines like this one, I am compelled to dive in and read every publicly released document related to the case. USAO Central California The headline last month was that Shengsheng He, a…
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Crypto-less Crypto Investment Scams: A California Case
Tags: access, apt, blockchain, breach, business, china, communications, control, crime, crypto, cybercrime, data, email, finance, group, intelligence, international, jobs, network, office, organized, scam, theft, tool, usaMy readers will know by now that I am addicted to PACER – the Public Access to Court Electronic Records. When I see headlines like this one, I am compelled to dive in and read every publicly released document related to the case. USAO Central California The headline last month was that Shengsheng He, a…
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ClickFix Campaign Targets Hotels, Spurs Secondary Customer Attacks
Attackers compromise hospitality providers with an infostealer and RAT malware and then use stolen data to launch a phishing attacks against customers via both email and WhatsApp. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/clickfix-targets-hotels-secondary-customer-attacks
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ClickFix Campaign Targets Hotels, Spurs Secondary Customer Attacks
Attackers compromise hospitality providers with an infostealer and RAT malware and then use stolen data to launch a phishing attacks against customers via both email and WhatsApp. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/clickfix-targets-hotels-secondary-customer-attacks
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5 reasons why attackers are phishing over LinkedIn
Attackers are increasingly phishing over LinkedIn to reach executives and bypass email security tools. Push Security explains how real-time browser protection detects and blocks phishing across apps and channels as users load malicious pages. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/5-reasons-why-attackers-are-phishing-over-linkedin/
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5 reasons why attackers are phishing over LinkedIn
Attackers are increasingly phishing over LinkedIn to reach executives and bypass email security tools. Push Security explains how real-time browser protection detects and blocks phishing across apps and channels as users load malicious pages. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/5-reasons-why-attackers-are-phishing-over-linkedin/