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19 Aug, 2020

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

Cybersecurity Allison Nixon, domaintools, Latest Warnings, Security Keys, The Coming Storm, Unit 221B, urlscan.io, vishing, VPN phishing, Yubico, Yubikey, Zack Allen, ZeroFOX

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. …

11 Aug, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition

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30 Jul, 2020

Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank

Cybersecurity All About Skimmers, chip cards, cvv, Cyber R&D Labs, EMV, Gemini Advisory, iCVV, Key Food breach, Latest Warnings, POS malware, shimmers, skimmers, Stas Alforov, The Coming Storm, Visa

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. …

19 Jun, 2020

Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It For You

Cybersecurity Dennis Dayman, Latest Warnings, microsoft, multi-factor authentication, Security Tools, twofactorauth.org, xbox

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. But people who don’t take advantage of these added safeguards may find it far more difficult to regain access when their account gets hacked, because increasingly thieves will enable multi-factor options and tie the account to a device they control. Here’s the story of one such incident. …

14 Jun, 2020

Privnotes.com Is Phishing Bitcoin from Users of Private Messaging Service Privnote.com

Cybersecurity Allison Nixon, Latest Warnings, privnote.com, privnotes.com, Unit 221B

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com, a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. Until recently, I couldn’t quite work out what Privnotes was up to, but today it became crystal clear: Any messages containing bitcoin addresses will be automatically altered to include a different bitcoin address, as long as the Internet addresses of the sender and receiver of the message are not the same. …

9 Jun, 2020

Florence, Ala. Hit By Ransomware 12 Days After Being Alerted by KrebsOnSecurity

Cybersecurity alex holden, CrowdStrike, DoppelPaymer, Emsisoft, Fabian Wosar, Hold Security, Latest Warnings, Ransomware, Steve Price, Yuliana Bellini

In late May, KrebsOnSecurity alerted numerous officials in Florence, Ala. that their information technology systems had been infiltrated by hackers who specialize in deploying ransomware. Nevertheless, on Friday, June 5, the intruders sprang their attack, deploying ransomware and demanding nearly $300,000 worth of bitcoin. City officials now say they plan to pay the ransom demand, in hopes of keeping the personal data of their citizens off of the Internet. …

16 May, 2020

U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

Cybersecurity Coronavirus, COVID-19, Elaine Dodd, Latest Warnings, money mules, Oklahoma Bankers Association, romance scams, The Coming Storm, U.S. Secret Service, unemployment insurance fraud, Web Fraud 2.0

A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service. A memo seen by KrebsOnSecurity that the Secret Service sent to field offices around the United States this week says the ring has been filing unemployment claims in different states using Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to identity theft victims, and that “a substantial amount of the fraudulent benefits submitted have used PII from first responders, government personnel and school employees.” …

12 May, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2020 Edition

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7 May, 2020

Tech Support Scam Uses Child Porn Warning

Cybersecurity 1 844 286 1916, A Little Sunshine, Latest Warnings, Microsoft support scam, tech support scam

A new email scam is making the rounds, warning recipients that someone using their Internet address has been caught viewing child pornography. The message claims to have been sent from Microsoft Support, and says the recipient’s Windows license will be suspended unless they call an “MS Support” number to reinstate the license, but the number goes to a phony tech support scam that tries to trick callers into giving fraudsters direct access to their PCs. …

28 Apr, 2020

Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

Cybersecurity citibank, email bomb, Gemini Advisory, Latest Warnings, Next Caller, Web Fraud 2.0

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