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Malicious Ads on Google Target Chinese Users with Fake Messaging Apps

By Newsroom — January 26th 2024 at 09:44
Chinese-speaking users have been targeted by malicious Google ads for restricted messaging apps like Telegram as part of an ongoing malvertising campaign. "The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will download Remote Administration Trojan (RATs) instead," Malwarebytes' Jérôme Segura said in a
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How Hackers Phish for Your Users' Credentials and Sell Them

By The Hacker News — November 28th 2023 at 11:13
Account credentials, a popular initial access vector, have become a valuable commodity in cybercrime. As a result, a single set of stolen credentials can put your organization’s entire network at risk. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, external parties were responsible for 83 percent of breaches that occurred between November 2021 and October 2022.&
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Major Phishing-as-a-Service Syndicate 'BulletProofLink' Dismantled by Malaysian Authorities

By Newsroom — November 13th 2023 at 05:27
Malaysian law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called BulletProofLink. The Royal Malaysia Police said the effort, which was carried out with assistance from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on November 6, 2023, was based on information that the threat actors behind the platform
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Cybercriminals Increasingly Using EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Executives

By THN — August 10th 2023 at 09:45
Threat actors are increasingly using a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit dubbed EvilProxy to pull off account takeover attacks aimed at high-ranking executives at prominent companies. According to Proofpoint, an ongoing hybrid campaign has leveraged the service to target thousands of Microsoft 365 user accounts, sending approximately 120,000 phishing emails to hundreds of organizations
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Interpol Busts Phishing-as-a-Service Platform '16Shop,' Leading to 3 Arrests

By THN — August 10th 2023 at 06:22
Interpol has announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called 16Shop, in addition to the arrests of three individuals in Indonesia and Japan. 16Shop specialized in the sales of phishing kits that other cybercriminals can purchase to mount phishing attacks on a large scale, ultimately facilitating the theft of credentials and payment details from users of popular services
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New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Generate Convincing Phishing Pages

By Ravie Lakshmanan — May 13th 2023 at 07:45
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS or PaaS) platform named Greatness has been leveraged by cybercriminals to target business users of the Microsoft 365 cloud service since at least mid-2022, effectively lowering the bar to entry for phishing attacks. "Greatness, for now, is only focused on Microsoft 365 phishing pages, providing its affiliates with an attachment and link builder that creates
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Researchers Warn of New Phishing-as-a-Service Being Used by Cyber Criminals

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 11th 2022 at 10:39
Cyber criminals are using a previously undocumented phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit called Caffeine to effectively scale up their attacks and distribute nefarious payloads. "This platform has an intuitive interface and comes at a relatively low cost while providing a multitude of features and tools to its criminal clients to orchestrate and automate core elements of their phishing
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