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HubPhish Abuses HubSpot Tools to Target 20,000 European Users for Credential Theft
2024-12-18 14:10

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new phishing campaign that has targeted European companies with an aim to harvest account credentials and take control of the victims' Microsoft Azure...

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...

European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware
2024-10-08 15:54

An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys,...

Russian-Linked Hackers Target Eastern European NGOs and Media
2024-08-15 11:43

Russian and Belarusian non-profit organizations, Russian independent media, and international non-governmental organizations active in Eastern Europe have become the target of two separate spear-phishing campaigns orchestrated by threat actors whose interests align with that of the Russian government. While one of the campaigns - dubbed River of Phish - has been attributed to COLDRIVER, an adversarial collective with ties to Russia's Federal Security Service, the second set of attacks have been deemed the work of a previously undocumented threat cluster codenamed COLDWASTREL. Targets of the campaigns also included prominent Russian opposition figures-in-exile, officials and academics in the US think tank and policy space, and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, according to a joint investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab.

New V3B phishing kit targets customers of 54 European banks
2024-06-04 18:53

Cybercriminals are promoting a new phishing kit named 'V3B' on Telegram, which currently targets customers of 54 major financial institutes in Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, and Italy. The phishing kit, priced between $130-$450 per month depending on what is purchased, features advanced obfuscation, localization options, OTP/TAN/2FA support, live chat with victims, and various evasion mechanisms.

Russian hackers use new Lunar malware to breach a European govt's agencies
2024-05-16 15:57

Security researchers discovered two previously unseen backdoors dubbed LunarWeb and LunarMail that were used to compromise a European government's diplomatic institutions abroad. The pieces of malware have been used to breach the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a European country with diplomatic missions in the Middle East and have been active since at least 2020. Researchers at cybersecurity company ESET believe that the backdoors may be connected to the Russian state-sponsored hacker group Turla, although attribution has medium confidence at this point.

What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores
2024-05-08 23:22

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European Commission starts formal probe of Meta over election misinformation
2024-04-30 12:30

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Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities
2024-04-17 19:56

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Russian APT Deploys New 'Kapeka' Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks
2024-04-17 13:32

A previously undocumented "flexible" backdoor called Kapeka has been "sporadically" observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The...