Phishing attackers have found a new avenue: bogus job offers
A series of phishing campaigns are targeting companies in various industries with phony job offers using direct messages on LinkedIn, according to researchers at Proofpoint. The attacker initially makes contact by sending an invitation to the target on LinkedIn with a short message regarding job offers.
Within a week after the target accepts the invitation, the attacker will send a follow-up email with either a link or a PDF attachment that contains embedded URLs. These links take the target to a spoofed version of a real staffing service, which forces the download of either a Word document or a JScript loader. This document or loader will result in the installation of a JScript backdoor known as “More_eggs.”
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Phishing attacks leverage Boeing 737 Max warnings
Large airline crashes tend to uniquely focus almost everyone's attention. Lowlife Internet thieves exploit the fear surrounding Boeing 737 Max crashes. They leverage that fear in phishing attacks.
A new phishing attack campaign is underway that uses the recent Boeing 737 Max crashes as a way to infect workstations with both remote access and info-stealing Trojans. This new campaign was discovered by 360 Threat Intelligence Center, who posted about them on Twitter and include a VirusTotal link which shows the AV engines that catch it.
These emails pretend to be from a private intelligence analyst who found a leaked document on the dark web. This document pretends to contain information about other airline companies will be affected by similar crashes soon, ... Read More
Healthcare data under attack
As the healthcare industry continues to be an attractive target in cyberattacks, the latest data shows that cybercriminals are taking more patient health data than ever.
When the number of breaches doesn’t materially change from year to year, it’s a natural assumption that the impact of those breaches is equally similar.
According to new data in the 2019 Annual Breach Barometer Report from patient privacy monitoring vendor Protenus, the number of breaches rose from 477 breaches in 2017 to 503 in 2018, with the number of records nearly tripling year over year – from 5.6 million to a little under 15.1 million.
With breached records costing healthcare organizations an average of $408, the massive jump in the number of total records breaches incurs a significant cost.
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