TrickBot Campaigns Targeting Users via Department of Labor FMLA Spam

Recent analysis from IBM X-Force spam traps uncovered a new Trickbot campaign that currently targets email recipients with fake messages purporting to come from the U.S. Department of Labor.

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SBA Spoofed in COVID-19 Spam to Deliver Remcos RAT

As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacts small businesses in the U.S., cybercriminals are trusting that people will be more likely to open unsolicited emails purporting to come from relevant entities.

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What is the best defense for a multi-layered attack: Spoofing, MiTM, Login CSRF?

How would one go about defending against this sort of attack to best protect a sloppy user? There can be obvious signs of a spoofing attack, such as not using SSL, slightly different domain, etc, but I am assuming Tristed.com (the maliciou… Continue reading What is the best defense for a multi-layered attack: Spoofing, MiTM, Login CSRF?

Verisign, Amazon patch zero-day vulnerability that utilized homoglyph characters

Verisign has fixed an issue that could have allowed attackers to register bogus domains by using homoglyphs in place of more common characters, due to research from California-based security firm Soluble. Matt Hamilton, principal security researcher at Soluble, discovered the flaw when he attempted to register an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket with Unicode emoji characters. “It was possible to register Latin homoglyph characters, specifically Unicode Latin IPA Extension homoglyphs,” he wrote in a blog released Wednesday. “I then checked if it was possible to register domains with these homoglyph characters. Ruh-roh, it was.” Hamilton called out the abuse of the following characters: The “ɡ” (Voiced Velar Stop) The “ɑ” (Latin Alpha) The “ɩ” (Latin Iota) For years, domain providers have been aware of homoglyph attacks and have put in place restrictions to prevent their exploitation, such as barring the use of both Latin and Cyrillic characters at once. Verisign, which operates […]

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