Fake recruiters on LinkedIn earn a victim’s trust, and then convinces them to engage on WhatsApp or by email, where they can send a malware dropper according to Mandiant.
Recent SMS phishing attacks company employees show how easy it is to set up a site that looks like the company’s IAM landing page (f.e. Okta) which asks for a user credentails and a one time passcode for access. This would result in gaining the users’ credententials which would be send to the attacker in […]
Twilio, which earlier this month became a sophisticated phishing attack, disclosed last week that the threat actors also managed to gain access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service.
Cisco confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee’s personal Google account that contained passwords synced from their web browser.“Initial access to the Cisco VPN was achieved via the successful compromise of a Cisco employee’s personal Google account” “The user had enabled password […]
Attackers managed to steal usernames and passwords from Cloudflare employees through a phishing attack and then tried to log into the internet company’s systems. Because Cloudflare requires the use of a physical security key for all employees as two-factor authentication, the attackers were not allowed access, the company said in a blog post.he attack on […]
Cloud communications company Twilio says some of its customers’ data was accessed by attackers who breached internal systems after stealing employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack.
Microsoft phishing attacks have targeted more than 10,000 organizations starting with September 2021, using the gained access to victims’ mailboxes in follow-on business email compromise (BEC) attacks.The threat actors used landing pages designed to hijack the Office 365 authentication process (even on accounts protected by multifactor authentication (MFA) by spoofing the Office online authentication page.In […]
Microsoft phishing attacks have targeted more than 10,000 organizations starting with September 2021, using the gained access to victims’ mailboxes in follow-on business email compromise (BEC) attacks.The threat actors used landing pages designed to hijack the Office 365 authentication process (even on accounts protected by multifactor authentication (MFA) by spoofing the Office online authentication page.In […]
Hackers duped a senior engineer at Axie Infinity into applying for a job at a fictitious company. The scheme resulted in the loss of $540 million in crypto earlier this year. Details of how the hack was carried out are being reported for the first time by The Block.
Criminals have been able to steal billions of dollars through rogue emails in recent years, the FBI claims. The damage caused by “Business Email Compromise” between June 2016 and December 2021 amounted to more than $ 43 billion, according to the American investigative service. Business Email Compromise (BEC), which also includes CEO fraud, allows attackers […]