Tag: email security
Public sector phishing attacks increase fourfold
With national elections coming up later this year, US public-sector organizations are experiencing unprecedented levels of phishing attacks designed to dupe government staff into opening weaponized links in fake emails. According to email security firm Abnormal Security: “Between May 2023 and May 2024, public sector organizations experienced an astounding 360 percent growth in phishing attacks. While phishing tends to consistently increase each year and regularly accounts for the majority of advanced threats, this level of growth is extraordinary.”
High level executives targeted in ongoing attacks
Highly organized cybercriminals suspected to be based in Russia and Nigeria are targeting hundreds of executives in dozens of organizations in an ongoing Microsoft Azure cloud account takeover (ATO) campaign. According to US cybersecurity firm Proofpoint: “As part of this campaign, which is still active, threat actors target users with individualized phishing lures within shared documents.” Innocent but weaponized documents sent to key executives include embedded links to “View Document”, which automatically directs them to a malicious site. The users affected by the attacks occupy a variety of trusted positions within their organizations. Victims include chief financial officers (CFOs), finance managers, account managers, corporate vice presidents, and sales directors. Proofpoint believes that targeting this variety of executive positions is far from being a series of random phishing attacks.
New Android malware, MMRat, can unlock phones – August 31st
In today's roundup; a Chinese cyberespionage group deploys malware, new Android malware, MMRat, unlocks phones, and DreamBus malware targets RocketMS servers.