Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: March 2023

Exploding USB Sticks

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his employer said. Artieda sustained slight injuries to […]

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Exploding USB Sticks

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his employer said. Artieda sustained slight injuries to […]

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IRS Phishing Emails Used to Distribute Emotet

Monster 500MB attachment hides a nasty surprise

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IRS Phishing Emails Used to Distribute Emotet

Monster 500MB attachment hides a nasty surprise

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IRS Phishing Emails Used to Distribute Emotet

Monster 500MB attachment hides a nasty surprise

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

IRS Phishing Emails Used to Distribute Emotet

Monster 500MB attachment hides a nasty surprise

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Massive adversary-in-the-middle phishing campaign bypasses MFA and mimics Microsoft Office

Microsoft has already seen millions of phishing emails sent every day by attackers using this phishing kit. Learn how to protect your business from this AitM campaign. The post Massive adversary-in-the-middle phishing campaign bypasses MFA and mimics Microsoft Office appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • March 24, 2023

Russian hacktivists deploy new AresLoader malware via decoy installers

Security researchers have started seeing attack campaigns that use a relatively new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) tool called AresLoader. The malicious program appears to be developed and used by several members of a pro-Russia hacktivist group and is typically distributed inside decoy installers for legitimate software. Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Intel 471 first spotted AresLoader […]

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  • March 24, 2023

New Android Malware Targets Customers of 450 Financial Institutions Worldwide

“Nexus” is the latest in a vast and growing array of Trojans targeting mobile banking and cryptocurrency applications.

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