The attacks begin with malicious emails containing seemingly innocuous document attachments (Excel and Word files) that exploit the CVE-2017-11882 flaw, a commonly targeted Microsoft Office Equation Editor vulnerability fixed in 2017.
Jan 20, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Emails Security Microsoft on Friday revealed that it was the target of a nation-state attack on its corporate systems that resulted in the theft of emails and attachments from senior executives and other individuals in the company’s cybersecurity and legal departments. The Windows maker attributed the attack to a Russian […]
The campaign sends phishing emails pretending to be from Meta, Instagram’s parent company, claiming that the recipient’s account has been restricted due to copyright infringement.
A novel way to abuse a decades-old protocol used to send emails since the beginning of the Internet allows attackers to evade Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) and other email protections, putting organizations and individuals at risk for targeted phishing attacks that appear to come from legitimate sources. Using a technique called “SMTP […]
The malware is being distributed through emails pretending to be from an IRS employee, with recipients unknowingly downloading the QakBot DLL when attempting to view a PDF attachment.
Proofpoint has warned recruiters of a skilled threat actor targeting them with emails designed to deploy malware. TA4557 is a financially motivated threat actor known to distribute the More_Eggs backdoor, which is designed to establish persistence, profile the targeted machine and drop additional payloads. Throughout 2022 and most of 2023 the actor has been replying to […]
The phishing emails were sent to employees in early September and allowed the criminals to steal a range of personal data, including names, health and medical information, credit card numbers, and online account credentials.
Security researchers have warned of triple-digit increase in the volume of phishing emails designed to trick shoppers, ahead of the Black Friday online sales bonanza which starts today. For the past few years, the Amazon-inspired event has signaled the unofficial start of the busy shopping season running through to the end of December. However, it […]
Parents have received emails from the threat actors, with leaked PDF documents containing student data, causing concerns about potential identity theft and phishing attacks.