Social Engineering

SuperMailer, a legitimate email newsletter program, has been found abused by threat actors to conduct a high-volume credential harvesting campaign, according to network security firm Cofense. “The SuperMailer-generated emails have been reaching inboxes at an increasingly remarkable volume,” Brah Haas, cyber threat intelligence analyst at Cofense, said in a blog post. “Emails containing the unique SuperMailer string barely registered in January and February, but in the first half of May they accounted for over 5%…

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The US Department of Treasury has imposed sanctions on four entities and one individual involved in illicit revenue generation and malicious online activities to generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The entities and individuals sanctioned are the Pyongyang University of Automation, the Technical Reconnaissance Bureau, the 110th Research Center cybersecurity unit, Chinyong Information Technology Cooperation Company, and North Korean national Kim Sang Man, the US Department of State said in…

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CyberArk has announced plans to launch an enterprise browser, dubbed CyberArk Secure Browser, at the end of 2023 as part of its CyberArk Identity Security Platform. The identity security vendor decided to create a new enterprise browser based on trends impacting hybrid work environments and its own research, which found an increase in post-multifactor authentication (MFA) attacks targeting session cookies. “Developing an enterprise browser — with an identity-first, security-first approach — was a natural progression…

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A commercial malware tool called Legion that hackers deploy on compromised web servers has recently been updated to extract credentials for additional cloud services to authenticate over SSH. The main goal of this Python-based script is to harvest credentials stored in configuration files for email providers, cloud service providers, server management systems, databases, and payment systems. These hijacked resources enable the attackers to launch email and SMS spam campaigns. “This recent update demonstrates a widening…

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Like most CSOs, Joe Sullivan was drawn to the role to help prevent cybercrimes. His role as CSO of Uber was something of a shift from his previous job prosecuting cybercriminals as an assistant US attorney, but closer to the tip of the cybersecurity spear. As a top-level professional in the business of defending against the bad guys, it was unexpected and not a little ironic that he would find himself on the other side…

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Security processor provider Axiado has announced the availability of two new trusted compute units (TCUs) to help detect ransomware and other cyberattacks on servers and infrastructure elements in cloud data centers, 5G networks, and network switches. Dubbed AX3000 and AX2000, these TCUs are AI-powered hardware security platform solutions that, the company says, integrate all security functions within a single system-on-chip (SoC) module. “Products such as Axiado’s TCU are important developments in the market, as they…

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Infrastructure access management company Teleport has announced the release of Teleport 13, the latest version of its Teleport Access Platform. Teleport 13 features scanning and automatic patching of Teleport vulnerabilities to enhance security and reduce operational overhead for DevOps teams responsible for securing cloud infrastructure, the firm said. The solution aims to address the targeting of user credentials and other forms of secrets by attackers and is ideal for users that adopt the Teleport Open…

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What enforces your security boundary today? What will enforce it in the next few years? For many years, Microsoft Active Directory has been the backbone and foundation of network authentication, identity, and connection. But for many organizations moving to cloud applications or having a mixture of operating systems, the need for cloud-based network management is on the rise. Some firms are merely adding synchronization between on-premise networks and cloud environments and calling it a day.…

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Meta has been fined $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the terms of the EU’s GDPR by continuing to transfer EU users’ data to the US without adequate safeguards. Meta has failed to “address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of Facebook’s European users, the DPC said in a statement. In addition to the fine, Meta has been given five months to stop the transfer of…

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Cybersecurity activity around business email compromise (BEC) spiked between April 2022 and April 2023, with over 150,000 daily attempts, on average, detected by the Microsoft Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). The findings were highlighted in the latest edition of Microsoft’s Cyber Signals, a cyberthreat intelligence report that spotlights security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion security signals and 8,500 security experts. “BEC attacks stand apart in the cybercrime industry for their emphasis on…

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