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Business Email Compromise Campaign Harvesting Credentials in Numerous Industries

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Aug

2017

A business email compromise campaign emanating out of Western Africa is targeting companies in a wide swathe of industries, bucking a trend of these scams focusing on wire fraud and targeting CEOs. The criminals are using phishing emails with links redirecting victims to sites designed to harvest corporate email credentials. Researchers at Flashpoint said it’s […]

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Alleged FIFA Doping Files Leaked by Hacking Group

24

Aug

2017

Files allegedly containing doping information on FIFA soccer players were leaked online by the Fancy Bears (also known as APT28, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, Tsar Team and Strontium) hacking group, as part of an “OpOlympics” campaign. The leaked emails contain information about soccer players using illegal substances or therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs). Apart from a […]

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Spam and phishing in Q2 2017

23

Aug

2017

At the start of Q2 2017, we registered a wave of malicious mailings imitating notifications from well-known delivery services. Trojan downloaders were sent out in ZIP archives, and after being launched they downloaded other malware – Backdoor.Win32.Androm and Trojan.Win32.Kovter. The usual trick of presenting dangerous content as important delivery information was employed by the…

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