Security News

Conti extortion gangs behind surge of BazarCall phishing attacks
2022-08-10 20:45

At least three groups split from the Conti ransomware operation have adopted BazarCall phishing tactics as the primary method to gain initial access to a victim's network. Currently, there is evidence of three groups, all part of the former Conti ransomware operation, that used BazarCall or a version of those tactics: Silent Ransom Group, Quantum, and Roy/Zeon.

Phishing attack abuses Microsoft Azure, Google Sites to steal crypto
2022-08-10 16:50

A new large-scale phishing campaign targeting Coinbase, MetaMask, Kraken, and Gemini users is abusing Google Sites and Microsoft Azure Web App to create fraudulent sites. Posting links to phishing pages on various legitimate sites aims to increase traffic and boost the malicious site's search engine rankings.

Cloudflare: Someone tried to pull the Twilio phishing tactic on us too
2022-08-10 14:23

Cloudflare says it was subject to a similar attack to one made on comms company Twilio last week, but in this case it was thwarted by hardware security keys that are required to access applications and services. According to Cloudflare, it recorded a very similar incident late last month, which could suggest the two attacks may have originated from the same attacker or group.

LogoKit update: The phishing kit leveraging open redirect vulnerabilities
2022-08-09 12:24

Resecurity identified threat actors leveraging open redirect vulnerabilities in online services and apps to bypass spam filters to ultimately deliver phishing content. The spike of LogoKit was been identified around the beginning of August, when multiple new domain names impersonating popular services had been registered and leveraged together with open redirects.

Twilio confirms data breach after its employees got phished
2022-08-09 10:06

Cloud communications company Twilio has announced that some of it employees have been phished and that the attackers used the stolen credentials to gain access to some internal company systems and customer data.Apparently, Twilio employees were not the only ones targeted by these attackers.

Twilio discloses data breach after SMS phishing attack on employees
2022-08-08 14:37

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. "On August 4, 2022, Twilio became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials," Twilio said over the weekend.

Snapchat, Amex sites abused in Microsoft 365 phishing attacks
2022-08-07 14:12

Attackers abused open redirects on the websites of Snapchat and American Express in a series of phishing attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. Open redirects are web app weaknesses that allow threat actors to use the domains of trusted organizations and websites as temporary landing pages to simplify phishing attacks.

Phishing campaign targets Coinbase wallet holders to steal cryptocurrency in real-time
2022-08-04 13:00

In this video for Help Net Security, Nick Ascoli, VP of Threat Research, PIXM, discusses a multilayered phishing campaign targeting cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Attackers are sending out spoofed Coinbase emails to harvest personal credentials and use them to log into users' legitimate accounts in real-time.

Microsoft accounts targeted with new MFA-bypassing phishing kit
2022-08-03 18:02

A new large-scale phishing campaign targeting credentials for Microsoft email services use a custom proxy-based phishing kit to bypass multi-factor authentication. The phishing campaign's targets include fin-tech, lending, accounting, insurance, and Federal Credit Union organizations in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Australia.

IPFS phishing on the rise, makes campaign takedown more complicated
2022-08-03 15:28

To successfully run a phishing operation, cybercriminals do generally need to host phishing pages online. Phishing pages sitting on IPFS are trickier to take down, compared to usual phishing pages hosted on the clear web.