Tag: phishing
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Arsen Launches Smishing Simulation to Help Companies Defend Against Mobile Phishing Threats
Paris, France, 24th October 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/arsen-launches-smishing-simulation-to-help-companies-defend-against-mobile-phishing-threats/
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Arsen Launches Smishing Simulation to Help Companies Defend Against Mobile Phishing Threats
Paris, France, 24th October 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/arsen-launches-smishing-simulation-to-help-companies-defend-against-mobile-phishing-threats/
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Arsen Launches Smishing Simulation to Help Companies Defend Against Mobile Phishing Threats
Paris, France, 24th October 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/arsen-launches-smishing-simulation-to-help-companies-defend-against-mobile-phishing-threats/
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Arsen Launches Smishing Simulation to Help Companies Defend Against Mobile Phishing Threats
Paris, France, 24th October 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/arsen-launches-smishing-simulation-to-help-companies-defend-against-mobile-phishing-threats/
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New PDF Tool Detects Malicious Files Using PDF Object Hashing
Proofpoint has released a new open-source tool called PDF Object Hashing that helps security teams detect and track malicious files distributed as PDFs. The tool is now available on GitHub and represents a significant advancement in identifying suspicious documents used by threat actors in phishing campaigns, malware distribution, and business email compromise attacks. PDFs have…
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Blitz Spear Phishing Campaign Targets NGOs Supporting Ukraine
A spear phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeted Ukraine’s war relief efforts and regional government administrations for a single day in October First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/blitz-spear-phishing-ngos-ukraine/
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Phishing Campaign Uses Unique UUIDs to Evade Secure Email Gateways
A sophisticated new phishing attack discovered in early February 2025 is successfully bypassing Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) and evading perimeter defenses through an ingenious combination of random domain selection, dynamic UUID generation, and browser session manipulation. The attack leverages a highly specialized JavaScript embedded in malicious attachments and spoofed cloud collaboration platforms, making it exceptionally…
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Der Dominoeffekt: Warum der Jaguar Land Rover Angriff das Versagen isolierter Cybersicherheit offenbart
Ein einziges kompromittiertes Endgerät, ein gestohlener Account oder eine erfolgreiche Phishing-Mail reichen heute aus, um eine Kettenreaktion auszulösen. Diese breitet sich vom Netzwerk im Büro bis in die physischen Produktionsprozesse aus und legt sie lahm. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/der-dominoeffekt-warum-der-jaguar-land-rover-angriff-das-versagen-isolierter-cybersicherheit-offenbart/a42469/
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Der Dominoeffekt: Warum der Jaguar Land Rover Angriff das Versagen isolierter Cybersicherheit offenbart
Ein einziges kompromittiertes Endgerät, ein gestohlener Account oder eine erfolgreiche Phishing-Mail reichen heute aus, um eine Kettenreaktion auszulösen. Diese breitet sich vom Netzwerk im Büro bis in die physischen Produktionsprozesse aus und legt sie lahm. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/der-dominoeffekt-warum-der-jaguar-land-rover-angriff-das-versagen-isolierter-cybersicherheit-offenbart/a42469/
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Iran’s MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree
Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/iran_muddywater_campaign/
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Iran’s MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree
Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/iran_muddywater_campaign/
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New Phishing Wave Uses OAuth Prompts to Take Over Microsoft Accounts
A new phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft account holders by using a clever twist on OAuth authentication prompts. Instead of asking users to hand over their passwords directly, attackers are tricking people into granting permission to malicious applications through legitimate-looking Microsoft authorization screens. This method bypasses traditional password protection and multi-factor authentication, making it particularly…
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New Phishing Wave Uses OAuth Prompts to Take Over Microsoft Accounts
A new phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft account holders by using a clever twist on OAuth authentication prompts. Instead of asking users to hand over their passwords directly, attackers are tricking people into granting permission to malicious applications through legitimate-looking Microsoft authorization screens. This method bypasses traditional password protection and multi-factor authentication, making it particularly…
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AI browsers can be abused by malicious AI sidebar extensions: Report
‘Dumpster fires’: David Shipley, head of Canadian employee security awareness training firm Beauceron Security, agrees.”I think if CISOs are bored and want to spice up their lives with an incident, they should roll out these AI-powered hot messes to their users,” he said .”But, if they’re like most CISOs and they have lots of problems,…
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NDSS 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2025, co-located with the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025 Afternoon, Session 3
Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPERS Vision: Retiring Scenarios — Enabling Ecologically Valid Measurement in Phishing Detection Research with PhishyMailbox Oliver D. Reithmaier (Leibniz University Hannover), Thorsten Thiel (Atmina Solutions), Anne Vonderheide (Leibniz University Hannover), Markus Dürmuth (Leibniz University Hannover) Vision: Towards True User-Centric Design for Digital Identity Wallets Yorick Last (Paderborn University), Patricia Arias Cabarcos…
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Süßes oder Scam
Die Bitdefender Labs haben anhand ihrer Telemetrie in der Zeit vom 15. September bis zum 15. Oktober einen globalen Anstieg von Phishing- und Scam-Aktivitäten mit Bezug auf Halloween verzeichnet. 73 Prozent der Angriffe zielten auf Mailboxen in den USA. Deutschland lag mit 13 Prozent weltweit auf Rang Zwei mit deutlichem Abstand zu anderen Ländern. […]…
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Phishing campaign across Mideast, North Africa is attributed to Iranian group
The well-known Iranian cyber-espionage operation tracked as MuddyWater spread backdoor malware in recent months through a compromised email account, researchers said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/iran-muddywater-phishing-campaign-north-africa-middle-east
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Check Point erweitert sein KI-Portfolio um eine dezidierte Anti-Phishing-Lösung
Check Point Software Technologies freut sich, seine kontinuierlich trainierte KI-Engine vorstellen zu können, die wichtige Informationen über Websites analysiert und bemerkenswerte Ergebnisse bei der Erkennung von Phishing-Versuchen erzielt. Integriert in die Threatcloud-AI bietet sie umfassenden Schutz für Check Points Quantum-Gateways, Harmony-Email, Endpoint und Harmony Mobile. Phishing ist nach wie vor eine der am weitesten verbreiteten…
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Global SMS Phishing Campaign Traced to China Targets Users Worldwide
A sophisticated and widespread smishing campaign originating from China has emerged as a significant threat to users worldwide. Researchers have attributed the ongoing attack to a group known as the Smishing Triad, which has demonstrated unprecedented scale and complexity through a decentralized infrastructure capable of registering and churning thousands of malicious domains daily. Since January…
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TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military to Deploy DeskRAT
In July 2025, cybersecurity firm CYFIRMA uncovered an active phishing campaign targeting Linux-based operating systems used by Indian government and military organisations. This operation, attributed to TransparentTribe (also known as APT36 or Operation C-Major), is the latest in a series of ongoing cyber espionage campaigns supporting Pakistan’s strategic interests. TransparentTribe, a Pakistani-nexus threat group active…
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TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military to Deploy DeskRAT
In July 2025, cybersecurity firm CYFIRMA uncovered an active phishing campaign targeting Linux-based operating systems used by Indian government and military organisations. This operation, attributed to TransparentTribe (also known as APT36 or Operation C-Major), is the latest in a series of ongoing cyber espionage campaigns supporting Pakistan’s strategic interests. TransparentTribe, a Pakistani-nexus threat group active…
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TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military to Deploy DeskRAT
In July 2025, cybersecurity firm CYFIRMA uncovered an active phishing campaign targeting Linux-based operating systems used by Indian government and military organisations. This operation, attributed to TransparentTribe (also known as APT36 or Operation C-Major), is the latest in a series of ongoing cyber espionage campaigns supporting Pakistan’s strategic interests. TransparentTribe, a Pakistani-nexus threat group active…
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Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity
The China-linked operation has grown from a phishing kit marketplace into an active and growing community supporting a decentralized large-scale phishing ecosystem. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/unit-42-chinese-language-phishing-operation-smishing-triad/
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IR Trends Q3 2025: ToolShell attacks dominate, highlighting criticality of segmentation and rapid response
Cisco Talos Incident Response observed a surge in attacks exploiting public-facing applications, mainly via ToolShell targeting SharePoint, for initial access, with post-exploitation phishing and evolving ransomware tactics also persisting this quarter. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/ir-trends-q3-2025/
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Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity
The China-linked operation has grown from a phishing kit marketplace into an active and growing community supporting a decentralized large-scale phishing ecosystem. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/unit-42-chinese-language-phishing-operation-smishing-triad/
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IR Trends Q3 2025: ToolShell attacks dominate, highlighting criticality of segmentation and rapid response
Cisco Talos Incident Response observed a surge in attacks exploiting public-facing applications, mainly via ToolShell targeting SharePoint, for initial access, with post-exploitation phishing and evolving ransomware tactics also persisting this quarter. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/ir-trends-q3-2025/
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Check Point erweitert Sicherheitslösung um KI-gestützte Phishing-Erkennung
Die Verfügbarkeit riesiger Datenmengen für ThreatCloud AI in Verbindung mit dem Fachwissen von Check Point im Bereich Cyber-Sicherheit ermöglicht es, Echtzeit-KI-Engines zu entwickeln, die in der Lage sind, bisher unbekannte Angriffe verhindern zu können. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/check-point-erweitert-sicherheitsloesung-um-ki-gestuetzte-phishing-erkennung/a42462/
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“Jingle Thief” Hackers Exploit Cloud Infrastructure to Steal Millions in Gift Cards
Tags: cloud, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, exploit, group, hacker, infrastructure, network, phishing, service, smishingCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud.”Jingle Thief attackers use phishing and smishing to steal credentials, to compromise organizations that issue gift cards,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers…
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SideWinder Leverages ClickOnce Installer to Deliver StealerBot Malware
The notorious SideWinder advanced persistent threat (APT) group has evolved its cyber espionage tactics with a sophisticated new attack method, combining PDF lures with ClickOnce technology to deploy StealerBot malware against diplomatic targets across South Asia. SideWinder orchestrated a carefully planned phishing operation throughout 2025, deploying customized lures designed for specific diplomatic institutions. The campaign’s…