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The US Department of Homeland Security’s latest ISC-CERT Monitor reveals that a recent spear-phishing campaign has targeted the systems of 11 companies from the energy sector.
The campaign was active in October 2012 and it used publicly available information.
In order to target specific individuals within the... |
5 April 2013
09:24 GMT |
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The Sykipot campaign has targeted numerous defense industry and government organizations over the past few years. However, experts have found that the cybercriminals behind the operation keep improving their infrastructure, malware, and they’ve even turned to some new exploits.
AlienVault experts say that over... |
22 March 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Phishing attacks have been used by cybercriminals for a long time, but every once in a while these “classic” schemes benefit from a major improvement. Security firm Proofpoint has identified a new type of industrial attacks that combine mass customization with spear phishing tactics.
Dubbed “longl... |
4 March 2013
07:10 GMT |
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Out-of-office notifications are utilized in most corporate environments to make sure that those who send us emails while we’re on vacation or on the field don’t think we’re ignoring them, or to let them know who to contact in case of an emergency.
However, few users realize that these out-of-office... |
20 November 2012
07:10 GMT |
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The quarterly reports issued by security firms show that the number of malicious emails keeps increasing from one period to the other. Numbers aren’t the only problem, since spam campaigns have also been improved to be able to bypass security systems.
FireEye experts have analyzed the trends and they determine... |
25 September 2012
04:01 GMT |
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An energy firm from Canada, a military agency from Taiwan, a Philippines oil company, and various other high-profile organizations from countries such as Nigeria, Brazil, Israel and Egypt have been targeted by a campaign that relies on the remote access Trojan known as Mirage, or MirageFox.
Experts from Dell SecureW... |
21 September 2012
09:40 GMT |
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The IT departments of companies should be warning employees of bogus eFax Corporate messages that attempt to trick recipients into accessing websites which contain malicious JavaScript. The emails appear to come from messages@inbound.efax.com (the default eFax account) and they’re entitled “Corporate eFa... |
17 August 2012
04:06 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that spear phishing attacks targeting the personal Gmail accounts of people working for the military, government agencies or contractors, continue."Once compromises happen and are covered in the news, they do not disappear and attackers don't give up or stop. They continue their busines... |
16 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was recently the target of a sophisticated cyber attack in which hackers managed to access sensitive information.Giving IMF's important role in current and future bailout programs, the non-public data stored on its systems could be very useful to parties trying to predict ma... |
13 June 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Attacks similar to those that recently targeted key Gmail users, were also launched against high-profile individuals with Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail accounts.Google recently advised users to enable 2-step authentication in Gmail and take other account security precautions, after detecting a major speak phishing attack ca... |
3 June 2011
13:54 GMT |
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China responded angrily to Google's new report about Gmail spear phishing attacks against U.S. government officials, military personnel, political activists and journalists, that allegedly originated in the Asian country."Blaming these misdeeds on China is unacceptable," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong L... |
2 June 2011
13:27 GMT |
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Google warns users about a Gmail spear phishing attack that targets government officials, military personnel, activists and journalists.Even though Google just announced the attack and said it discovered it recently, its findings are based on a February report from independent malware researcher Mila Parkour.The rogu... |
2 June 2011
04:54 GMT |
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The recent data breach at email marketing provider Epsilon, that led to the exposure of millions of email addresses, might have been the result of a targeted attack the company knew about.On November 24 last year, Return Path, a company specializing in email reputation and monitoring, alerted their partners that Emai... |
7 April 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn of highly targeted attacks that leverage the crisis in Libya to deliver an exploit via email and infect key computers.The emails pose as replies to previous messages about the current situation in the Arab country and bear subjects like "Re: DISCUSSION - the final battle in Lib... |
25 February 2011
11:21 GMT |
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The UK foreign secretary, William Hague, said the British government is increasingly targeted in cyber attacks launched by foreign intelligence agencies.Speaking at a security conference in Munich on Friday, Mr. Hague revealed that three of its staff members were the target of a spear phishing attack last month.He ex... |
7 February 2011
06:53 GMT |
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) revealed that one of its high-ranking employees was targeted in a spear phishing attack by a foreign intelligence agency looking to steal military secrets.According to The Register, the incident occurred sometime last year and was mentioned by Simon Kershaw, head of MoD's defence... |
22 November 2010
08:55 GMT |
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A California man used targeted social engineering attacks to trick over 200 women and girls into installing malware that gave him complete control over their computers, including webcams and microphones.The man selected his targets from a popular social networking website and sent them private messages, posing as the... |
4 November 2010
04:18 GMT |
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Romanian authorities have arrested a phisher suspected of stealing over $3 million from high value eBay customers after accessing the company's internal systems.The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) arrested Liviu Mihail Concioiu on several charges related to cyberfrau... |
24 September 2010
02:17 GMT |
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Zeus distributors have responded to journalists exposing a recent Zeus spear phishing campaign by hijacking their news articles and using them to target more people. The fresh Zeus spam features alerts about recent attempts to infect government and military systems with the trojan.Last week, former Washington Post jo... |
15 February 2010
06:57 GMT |
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A new spear phishing scam is currently in progress as lots of companies have received fake emails apparently sent by the US Tax Court that ask recipients to click on a link included in the message body. Security company McAfee has also received an email of this kind. According to Kevin McGhee, such attacks are usuall... |
23 May 2008
02:43 GMT |
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