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Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence have been tracking phishing emails that contain a triple threat of remote access trojans – RATS. The package is contained in an infected Microsoft Excel document and once the recipient of the email makes the mistake of opening the file – because the file name …
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Awareness of the variations of phishing email attacks is a big step in defending against them – that I why I always try and post about any in depth analysis of phishing emails and their payloads that SANS Internet Storm Centre runs. HTML phishing attachments – now with anti-analysis features …
It is getting towards the end of the week… Hopefully this will have some impact on the amount of phishing emails and business email compromise attacks going around. Suspected phishing email crime boss arrested in Nigeria • The Register Alleged leader of Nigerian email fraud group has been captured, Interpol …
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Getting the word out to you, about the wide range of phishing emails and their associated social engineering tricks actually active in the wild, is one of the ain reasons this blog exists. Many of our clients use this blog as a resource as a link to the multitude of …
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Phishing campaigns usually depend on social engineering and threat actors are always looking for new ways to exploit your trust: Phishing scam adds a ‘chatbot-like’ twist to steal credit card information and more – The Record by Recorded Future
The Conti cyber-crime gang has featured in many of my blog post – they have been a prolific perpetrator of some of the worse cyber attacks. Now researchers are reporting that much of their illicit infrastructure has closed down: Notorious cybercrime gang Conti ‘shuts down,’ but its influence and talent …
Following the emergence of Bumblebee malware as a significant threat, SANS INternet Storm has a post looking at the function of the malware and transferring ISO files. Bumblebee Malware from TransferXL URLs – SANS Internet Storm Centre This is an excellent post by Brad and not only shows you the …
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