Commercial software has regular updates, of course the bad guys have updates as well. Agent Tesla Updates SMTP Data Exfiltration Technique – SANS Internet Storm Centre
Phishing campaigns – Indeed
One of the things we advise people to do on our Phishing and Social Engineering training, is to be very aware of the look and feel of any login pages and web sites they are directed to, as bad actors may not get it completely right – so if they …
You should know that Phishing is not always done by email
There is an article on the Sans Internet Storm Diary looking at a phishing attack/exploit that is running on Discord. Phishing Direct Messages via Discord (sans.edu) Now you may not know what Discord is, but your takeaway from this blog post is that phishing is not just something that attacks …
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Malware Spam in the wild
The SANS Internet Storm Centre is reporting another spam email attack doing the rounds with a new payload. TA551 (Shathak) pushes IcedID (Bokbot) (sans.edu) The important things to take away from this are: In real world situations ransomware has been delivered to companies using these methods Keep your spam filters …
Do not click on the attachment – whatever it is called!
Before you open any attachment you should think about it: Are you expecting an attachment from this sender? Does this sender normally send you attachments like this? If you do not recognise the attachment extension then do not open it. Best practice is NOT TO OPEN any unexpected attachments! It …
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