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Microsoft shares temp fix for Outlook crashing when writing emails
2025-01-20 11:44

Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for a known issue that causes classic Outlook to crash when writing, replying to, or forwarding an email. [...]

Job-seeking devs targeted with fake CrowdStrike offer via email
2025-01-10 12:20

Cryptojackers are impersonating Crowdstrike via email to get developers to unwittingly install the XMRig cryptocurrency miner on their Windows PC, the company has warned. The email Crowdstrike has...

Fake CrowdStrike job offer emails target devs with crypto miners
2025-01-09 21:30

CrowdStrike is warning that a phishing campaign is impersonating the cybersecurity company in fake job offer emails to trick targets into infecting themselves with a Monero cryptocurrency miner...

Scams Based on Fake Google Emails
2024-12-26 16:09

Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.

European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails
2024-12-18 11:54

A threat actor looking to take over the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure of European companies has successfully compromised accounts of multiple victims in different firms, according to Palo...

New fake Ledger data breach emails try to steal crypto wallets
2024-12-17 22:04

A new Ledger phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be a data breach notification asking you to verify your recovery phrase, which is then stolen and used to steal your cryptocurrency. [...]

Black Basta Ransomware Evolves with Email Bombing, QR Codes, and Social Engineering
2024-12-09 17:44

The threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware have been observed switching up their social engineering tactics, distributing a different set of payloads such as Zbot and DarkGate since...

Microsoft dangles $10K for hackers to hijack LLM email service
2024-12-09 11:05

Outsmart an AI, win a little Christmas cash Microsoft and friends have challenged AI hackers to break a simulated LLM-integrated email client with a prompt injection attack – and the winning teams...

Businesses plagued by constant stream of malicious emails
2024-12-09 04:00

36.9% of all emails received by businesses (20.5 billion) in 2024 were unwanted, according to Hornetsecurity’s analysis of 55.6+ billion emails processed through their security services between...

Hackers Use Corrupted ZIPs and Office Docs to Evade Antivirus and Email Defenses
2024-12-04 04:48

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a novel phishing campaign that leverages corrupted Microsoft Office documents and ZIP archives as a way to bypass email defenses. "The ongoing...