Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2024

carmaker with spear-phishing attacks. In late 2023, BlackBerry researchers spotted the threat actor FIN7 targeting a large US automotive manufacturer with a spear-phishing campaign. BlackBerry reported that the financially motivated group FIN7 targeted the IT department of a large U.S.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Given the huge proportion of cyber attacks that rely on phishing to gain a foothold in victims’ systems, it’s hardly surprising that one of the four ways of staying safe online advocated by the US campaign is recognising and reporting phishing. You can find everything you might want to know about phishing on our website.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2022

Establishing an IAM Blueprint for Securing Manufacturing Environments. The manufacturing sector is crucial to the economic prosperity of all countries. Products made by these manufacturing industries are essential to many other critical infrastructure sectors. IAM Blueprint for Securing Manufacturing Environments.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 20, 2021

Spear-Phishing Campaign Exploits PowerPoint Vulnerability The Aggah APT group, believed to be of Pakistani origin, apparently was behind a recent spear-phishing campaign targeting manufacturing firms in Taiwan and South Korea, according to Anomali Threat Research.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 12, 2022

based enterprise manufacturing organization cut their Phish-prone Percentage™ (PPP) by more than 80% after five months using the KnowBe4 security awareness training and simulated phishing platform.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Spear Phishing Messages Sent to Emplpyees With Admin Rights A Russia-based cybercriminal group targeted a large American auto manufacturer, more evidence of its shift to deep-pocketed victims the gang hopes will deliver a major payday.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Impersonates Mexican Government Officials Researchers uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting automotive and chemical manufacturers across the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

A phishing campaign employing QR codes targeted a leading energy company in the US, cybersecurity firm Cofense reported. “Beginning in May 2023, Cofense has observed a large phishing campaign utilizing QR codes targeting the Microsoft credentials of users from a wide array of industries.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services).

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 22, 2022

Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Impersonates Mexican Government Officials Researchers uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting automotive and chemical manufacturers across the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer suffered a data leak, an unsecured database managed by the company containing gamers’ info was exposed online. Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer has suffered a data leak, this is the discovery made by the security researcher Bob Diachenko. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Manufacturing needs to adopt a Zero Trust approach to mitigate increased cyber threats. Long gone is the time when manufacturing systems and operations were siloed from the Internet and, therefore, were not a cybersecurity target. Thu, 10/20/2022 - 06:20. Survey’s key findings.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bad ops of operators of a phishing campaign exposed credentials stolen in attacks and made them publicly available through Google queries. . Check Point Research along with experts from cybersecurity firm Otorio shared details on their investigation into a large-scale phishing campaign that targeted thousands of global organizations.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 18, 2021

Fraudsters Impersonate Vaccine Manufacturers, WHO, DHL Researchers at the security firm Proofpoint are tracking several fraud schemes leveraging COVID-19 vaccine-themed emails. The schemes include business email compromise scams, messages with malicious attachments and phishing emails designed to harvest credentials.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2023

Plug X and other information-stealing remote-access Trojans are among the malware targeting networking, manufacturing, and logistics companies in Taiwan.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 30, 2021

A new report finds IT, healthcare, and manufacturing are the industries most targeted by phishing emails.

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IT Governance

JULY 7, 2021

Welcome to July’s review of phishing scams, in which we look at criminals’ latest tactics and provide examples of successful frauds. The number of officially reported HMRC-branded phishing scams increased from 572,029 in the 2019–2020 fiscal year to 1,069,522 in 2020–2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2024

North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky has been linked to a cyberattack on Diehl Defence, a German manufacturer of advanced military systems. KG is a German weapon manufacturer headquartered in Überlingen. The Kimsuky APT group breached Diehl Defence through a sophisticated phishing campaign, reported the German newspaper Der Spiegel.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. It is headquartered in Zurich, with a U.S

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Following a successful debut in November 2022, Matter is picking up steam, Nelson told me. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Pakistan-linked threat group's campaign uses compromised WordPress sites to deliver the Warzone RAT to manufacturing companies in Taiwan and South Korea.

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IT Governance

JUNE 11, 2019

On average, one in ten emails is a phishing scam. Very few respondents said they were likely to be lured by the most common pitfalls of phishing scams: Urgency: 10.7%. To see whether respondents really weren’t tempted by such scams, PhishMe sent them a series of simulated phishing emails. How does phishing work? >>

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A well-organized email spoofing campaign has been seen targeting financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and telecom.

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IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2019

Phishing is one of the most longstanding and dangerous methods of cyber crime. Despite what people think they know about phishing, they consistently fall victim. According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 32% of all cyber attacks involved phishing. The message is sent from a public email domain.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #20 | May 16th, 2023 [Foot in the Door] The Q1 2023's Top-Clicked Phishing Scams | INFOGRAPHIC KnowBe4's latest reports on top-clicked phishing email subjects have been released for Q1 2023. Building up your organization's human firewall by fostering a strong security culture is essential to outsmart bad actors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts warn of advanced phishing attacks in certain modern Android-based phones that can trick users into accepting new malicious phone settings. The issue affects several modern Android-based phones, including devices manufactured by Samsung, Huawei, LG and Sony. The attacker can send out targeted phishing CP messages (i.e.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced the seizure of domains used by Iran-linked APT Bohrium in spear-phishing campaigns. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced to have taken legal action to disrupt a spear-phishing operation linked to Iran-linked APT Bohrium. Middle East, and India.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

“ Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China’s PLA SSF, has remained active against government, military, logistics and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia. The researchers also observed threat actors increasingly targeting organizations in the critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

A Japanese multinational accidentally leaked access to its marketing tools, enabling attackers to launch phishing campaigns against its vast pool of customers in Italy. Threat actors could abuse this information to gain access to Toyota clients’ phone numbers and email addresses and abuse them to launch phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The Brazilian retail arm of car manufacturing giant Volvo leaked sensitive files, putting its clientele in the vast South American country in peril. A malicious actor could have abused email credentials to hijack an official communication channel and send phishing emails to customers from a trusted company’s email.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

They were used to access the internal workplace systems for BMW dealers and could have been useful to attackers for spear-phishing campaigns or malware distribution. This exploit could also be used for mass phishing campaigns, targeting customers,” our researchers said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. According to the advisory, the threat actors have exploited Zerologon ( CVE-2020-1472 ) in Microsoft’s Netlogon Remote Protocol in phishing attempts.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 23, 2020

Secure Your Router: If you’re still using your router’s manufacturer default password, it’s past time for a change. Be sure to change the default manufacturer password, and update software with the latest patches. Beware of Phishing Links: Phishing scams are on the rise.

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IT Governance

MARCH 14, 2018

A recent F-Secure report has found that phishing emails (16%) and malicious attachments (18%) together accounted for 34% of cyber attacks. Financial and manufacturing organisations were equally affected by both. If employees aren’t fully educated on phishing, they are liable to underestimate the threat.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

CyberNews researchers reported that Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Original post @ [link]. It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking, an old Irish proverb says.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

User Table Schema | Source: Cybernews As a huge number of emails were leaked, platform users could potentially experience a surge in spam and phishing emails. It’s advisable for them to externally verify the information contained in emails and exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments. Are the leaked passwords crackable?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. “The incident is believed to have been triggered by an employee unintentionally falling victim to a phishing attack, resulting in unauthorized access to long-unused and outdated data.”

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