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phishing
Fake brand discounts on social media prey on shoppers’ fear of missing out

Cybercriminals are using fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok to lure shoppers to phishing sites that steal their payment card details and one-time passwords, Group-IB …

espionage
Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts

A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, …

sentence
Former US Air Force members behind million-dollar BEC scheme head to prison

Two men who ran BEC and phishing campaigns against US businesses while serving in the Air Force have been sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison. According to …

Europe
Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. …

email
DarkMe RAT trades zero-days for plain phishing emails

DarkMe, a remote access trojan and info-stealer that has previously been associated with a threat group that targeted financial market traders and cryptocurrency users, has …

Phishing
Fake Claude Max giveaway tricks users into handing over their Google account credentials

A fake Claude Max giveaway uses a spoofed Google sign-in window to steal users’ login credentials, Malwarebytes researchers have found. …

phishing
Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens phishing service that gave criminals access to 12,000 inboxes

The EvilTokens phishing service, which compromised more than 12,000 inboxes at over 10,000 organizations, has been disrupted by a coalition of law enforcement and …

ChatGPT phishing
A fake ChatGPT billing email is after your OpenAI password

A fake ChatGPT billing email is steering users to a copy of the OpenAI login page that keeps whatever username and password they type. Josh Varden of Cofense’s Phishing …

phishing awareness
Companies may be measuring phishing resilience the wrong way

Companies that judge phishing simulation programs by how often employees click simulated attack emails may be overlooking more important indicators of cyber resilience, …

social engineering
Attackers call employees’ personal phones to break into Microsoft 365 accounts

Attackers are calling or texting employees on their personal phones, posing as internal IT staff, in a social engineering campaign that tricks them into handing over access to …

phishing
Cybercriminals are building phishing pages that exist only inside victims’ browsers

A phishing campaign routes victims through genuine Microsoft OAuth and Teams infrastructure before showing them a fake login page built entirely inside their own browser, …

Trezor
Trezor customers hit with phishing calls and letters after shipping-partner breach

Roughly 67,000 more customers of SatoshiLabs, the maker of hardware crypto-wallet Trezor, are at heightened risk of phishing attacks after their names, email addresses, phone …

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