Credential harvesting campaigns target governments and cybersecurity companies

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Threat analysts at Cyjax have uncovered multiple mass credential harvesting campaigns that have recently been targeting cybersecurity companies, government entities, and organisations in a range of other sectors. Reverse engineering these campaigns revealed the attacker’s infrastructure and stolen data store. Throughout July and August 2020, we detected two separate credential harvesting campaigns targeting accounts for …

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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 15 June 2020

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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The FBI has reported on the most common types of fraud during the pandemic. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received nearly as many complaints in the first half of 2020 (about 320,000) as in the entirety of 2019 (about 400,000). Criminals continue to peddle counterfeit personal protective equipment (PPE) and fraudulent …

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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 4 May 2020

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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Since January, there has been a boom in threat actors capitalising on the COVID-19 pandemic – ZScaler reported a 30,000 per cent increase in phishing, malicious websites, and malware in this period. As the pandemic has continued, however, and lockdowns have affected cybercriminals as well as law-abiding citizens, there has been a …

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Global and Cybersecurity Weekly – 20 April 2020

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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a province in western Germany, has reportedly lost between €31.5 million up to €100 million in emergency aid following a COVID-19 phishing campaign. The threat actors behind the campaign created fake copies of the official website used to distribute COVID-19 financial aid by the NRW Ministry …

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