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Threat Actors Abuse Discord to Push Malware

22

Oct

2021

Threat actors are abusing the core features of the popular Discord digital communication platform to persistently deliver various types of malware—in particular remote access trojans (RATs) that can take over systems–putting its 150 million users at risk, researchers have found. RiskIQ and CheckPoint both discovered multi-functional malware being sent in messages across the platform, which […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

5 Steps for Investigating Phishing Attacks

11

Mar

2021

In November 2020, Group-IB and INTERPOL revealed details about operation Falcon, which targeted members of a Nigerian cybercrime ring engaged in business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. The prolific gang, dubbed TMT, compromised at least 500,000 companies in more than 150 countries since at least 2017. Phishing is TMT’s main attack vector. It also remains […]

Category Cyber-crime Phishing Written by Darkreading 0 Comments

CISA and FBI Observed APT Groups Targeting State Networks Related to US Election Systems

13

Oct

2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued an advisory after spotting advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploiting multiple legacy vulnerabilities combined with a newer privilege escalation vulnerability—CVE-2020-1472—in Windows Netlogon. Less than a month before the November 3 elections in the United States, law agencies have detected APT actors trying to exploit […]

Category Threats & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Hotforsecurity 0 Comments

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