Tag: email
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Nigerian Faces Prison in US After BEC Fraud Conviction
Nigerian national Ebuka Raphael Umeti was convicted in the US for operating a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. The post national Ebuka Raphael … First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/nigerian-faces-prison-in-us-after-bec-fraud-conviction/
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DMARC The Email Game Changer
In February, one of the biggest changes in … The post ary, one of the biggest changes in … The post ary, one of the biggest changes in … The pos… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/06/dmarc-the-email-game-changer/
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Phishing emails abuse Windows search protocol to push malicious scripts
A new phishing campaign uses HTML attachments that abuse the Windows search protocol (search-ms URI) to push batch files hosted on remote servers that… First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-emails-abuse-windows-search-protocol-to-push-malicious-scripts/
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Remcos RAT Distributed As UUEncoding (UUE) File To Steal Logins
Researchers identified a campaign distributing Remcos RAT, a Remote Access Trojan, where the attack uses phishing emails disguised as legitimate busin… First seen on gbhackers.com Jump to article: gbhackers.com/remcos-rat-uuencoding-theft/
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PreVeil Email: Enhancing Traditional Email with Secure and Private Communication
Tags: emailPreVeil Email offers a secure and private enhancement to conventional email solutions such as Gmail and O365, addressing their inherent limitations in… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/06/preveil-email-enhancing-traditional-email-with-secure-and-private-communication/
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Bolster, creator of the CheckPhish phishing tracker, raises $14M led by Microsoft’s M12
A dodgy email containing a link that looks legit but is actually malicious remains one of the most dangerous, yet successful, tricks in a cybercrimina… First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/bolster-creator-of-the-checkphish-phishing-tracker-raises-14m-led-by-microsofts-m12/
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The Tolly Group Report Highlights SlashNext’s Gen AI-Powered Email Security Prowess
In the ever-evolving landscape of cyberthreats, email remains a prime target for malicious actors, with zero-hour Business Email Compromise (BEC) and … First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/06/the-tolly-group-report-highlights-slashnexts-gen-ai-powered-email-security-prowess/
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Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach
U.S. cell carrier Patriot Mobile experienced a data breach that included subscribers’ personal information, including full names, email addresses, hom… First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/conservative-cell-carrier-patriot-mobile-hit-by-data-breach/
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Sticky Werewolf Weaponizing LNK Files Group Attacking To Attack Organizations
Sticky Werewolf, a cyber threat group, has shifted its targeting strategy from sending phishing emails with download links to malicious files to using… First seen on gbhackers.com Jump to article: gbhackers.com/sticky-werewolf-lnk-files-attacks/
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BBC Breach Puts 25K Pension Scheme Members at Risk
Though information such as dates of birth, email addresses, and home addresses were compromised, the Beeb assures individuals that financial informati… First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/bbc-breach-puts-25k-pension-scheme-members-at-risk
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U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced a 31-year-old man to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through business emai… First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2024/05/us-sentences-31-year-old-to-10-years.html
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Researchers Urge Immediate Action on New EmailGPT Vulnerability Exposing Users to Data Breach
The CyRC Vulnerability Advisory has reported a critical security flaw in EmailGPT, an AI-powered email writing assistant and Google Chrome extension t… First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/emailgpt-vulnerability/
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Beware Of Phishing Emails Prompting Execution Via Paste (CTRL+V)
Phishing attackers are distributing malicious HTML files as email attachments, containing code designed to exploit users by prompting them to directly… First seen on gbhackers.com Jump to article: gbhackers.com/phishing-emails-paste-execution/
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Have I Been Pwned updated to include 361M stolen email addresses
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361 Million Unique Email Credentials Leaked On Telegram Channels
Last week, a security researcher sent me 122GB of data scraped out of thousands of Telegram channels. It contained 1.7k files with 2B lines and 361M u… First seen on gbhackers.com Jump to article: gbhackers.com/email-credentials-leaked/
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361 million account credentials leaked on Telegram: Are yours among them?
A new trove of 361 million email addresses has been added to Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), the free online service through which users can check whether … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/06/04/check-account-credentials-compromised/
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361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP
A massive trove of 361 million email addresses from credentials stolen by password-stealing malware, in credential stuffing attacks, and from data bre… First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/361-million-stolen-accounts-leaked-on-telegram-added-to-hibp/
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Dropbox discloses data breach involving Dropbox Sign
A threat actor accessed Dropbox Sign customer names, emails and hashed passwords as well as API keys, OAuth tokens. multifactor authentication informa… First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366583233/Dropbox-discloses-data-breach-involving-Dropbox-Sign
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Information of Hundreds of European Politicians Found on Dark Web
The email addresses and other information of hundreds of British, French and EU politicians have been found on the dark web. The post l addresses and … First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/information-of-hundreds-of-european-politicians-found-on-dark-web/
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Internal Emails Reveal How a Controversial Gun-Detection AI System Found Its Way to NYC
NYC mayor Eric Adams wants to test Evolv’s gun-detection tech in subway stations, despite the company saying it’s not designed for that environment. E… First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/evolv-gun-detection-nyc-subways-emails/
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l-Tag DKIM Vulnerability: What Can You Do to Secure Your Email?
DKIM is a crucial email authentication method designed … The post a crucial email authentication method designed … The post a crucial email authen… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/06/l-tag-dkim-vulnerability-what-can-you-do-to-secure-your-email/
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Navigating Email: From Spam Wars to Trusted Relationships
Some call it spam. Others call it marketing. Recipients want it to stop, while senders are looking to perfect their art. But both sides agree on one t… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/06/navigating-email-from-spam-wars-to-trusted-relationships/
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Business email compromise, romance scammer sentenced to 10 years
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Free Piano phish targets American university students, staff
A large-scale phishing campaign is using an unusual lure to earn at least $900,000 by tricking email recipients into believing they’re about to receiv… First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/free-piano-phish-targets-american-university-students-staff/
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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for US persons in a controversial spy program’s d… First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/fbi-section-702-us-person-queries-email/
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YouTube Becomes Latest Battlefront for Phishing, Deepfakes
Personalized phishing emails with fake collaboration opportunities and compromised video descriptions linking to malware are just some of the new tric… First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/youtube-becomes-latest-frontier-for-phishing-deepfakes
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OpenSSF Siren to Share Threat Intelligence for Open Source Software
The Siren email mailing list will focus on operational impact and response, acting as a central location to provide information about threats and nece… First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/openssf-siren-to-share-threat-intelligence-for-open-source-software
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Talos IR trends: BEC attacks surge, while weaknesses in MFA persist
Within BEC attacks, adversaries will send phishing emails appearing to be from a known or reputable source making a valid request, such as updating pa… First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/talos-ir-quarterly-trends-q1-2024/