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Hackers responsible for a string of recent cyberattacks, including those on Twilio, MailChimp, Cloudflare, and Klaviyo, compromised over 130 organizations in the same phishing campaign. This phishing campaign utilized a phishing kit codenamed '0ktapus' to steal 9,931 login credentials that the hackers then used to gain access to corporate networks and systems through VPNs and other remote access devices.
Microsoft observed a campaign that inserted an attacker-controlled proxy site between the account users and the work server they attempted to log into. When the user entered a password into the proxy site, the proxy site sent it to the real server and then relayed the real server's response back to the user.
A phishing campaign caught yesterday was seen targeting maintainers of Python packages published to the PyPI registry. Python packages 'exotel' and 'spam' are among hundreds seen laced with malware after attackers successfully compromised accounts of maintainers who fell for the phishing email.
PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python packages, is warning about a phishing campaign targeting its users. "We have additionally determined that some maintainers of legitimate projects have been compromised, and malware published as the latest release for those projects. These releases have been removed from PyPI and the maintainer accounts have been temporarily frozen," the PyPI team noted.
The Python Package Index, PyPI, on Wednesday sounded the alarm about an ongoing phishing campaign that aims to steal developer credentials and inject malicious updates to legitimate packages. "This is the first known phishing attack against PyPI," the maintainers of the official third-party software repository said in a series of tweets.
Threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate software-as-a-service platforms like website builders and personal branding spaces to create malicious phishing websites that steal login credentials. Because SaaS platforms simplify and streamline the process of creating new sites, phishing actors can easily switch to different themes, scale up or diversify their operations, and quickly respond to reports and takedowns.
Abnormal Security released a report which explores the current email threat landscape. This Help Net Security video provides insight into the latest advanced email attack trends.
From there they can send phishing messages carrying the AWS name into corporate emails systems to both get past scanners that typically would block suspicious messages and to add greater legitimacy to fool victims, according to email security vendor Avanan. In a report this week, researchers with Avanan - acquired last year by cybersecurity company Check Point - outlined a phishing campaign that uses AWS and unusual syntax construction in the messages to get past scanners.
How phishing attacks are exploiting Amazon Web Services. Cybercriminals prefer to use legitimate sites and services in their phishing scams, not just to trick unsuspecting victims but to sneak past security scanners that would otherwise block traffic from a suspicious site.
Microsoft on Monday revealed it took steps to disrupt phishing operations undertaken by a "Highly persistent threat actor" whose objectives align closely with Russian state interests. "SEABORGIUM intrusions have also been linked to hack-and-leak campaigns, where stolen and leaked data is used to shape narratives in targeted countries," Microsoft's threat hunting teams said.