Election campaign posters for the Parti Socialiste (SPD), with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left), and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with Friedrich Merz, in Berlin, February 20, 2025. MARKUS SCHREIBER / AP Just over a hundred days. An election campaign as brief as it has been intense is drawing to a close in Germany, a country … Read more
Nearly 1,000 fake Reddit and WeTransfer pages are being used to spread Lumma Stealer malware, a Sekoia.io researcher reported this week. The Sekoia lead cybercrime analyst, who goes by crep1x, posted screenshots of the spoofed Reddit and WeTransfer pages on X Monday, and also shared a full list of the phishing domains. The web pages, … Read more
Dec 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cyber Espionage North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as recruiters to trick individuals looking for … Read more
A targeted mobile phishing (mishing) campaign was observed that leveraged a DocuSign impersonation scheme that aimed to harvest corporate credentials from company executives. ZimperiumLabs reported Dec. 18 that the DocuSign campaign was similar to a pattern of spear phishing attempts that enterprises have been tracking in which attackers specifically target the mobile devices of their … Read more
Dec 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Phishing Attack A newly discovered malware campaign has been found to target private users, retailers, and service businesses mainly located in Russia to deliver NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT. The campaign, dubbed Horns&Hooves by Kaspersky, has hit more than 1,000 victims since it began around March 2023. The end goal of … Read more