Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is gearing up to roll out an update for Windows 11 that will significantly enhance user control over built-in apps. In the upcoming version, you will be able to uninstall a wider range of inbox apps.
ZDNet
Got a tech question? Ed Bott and ZDNet's squad of editors and experts probably have the answer. This week: What does a TPM do? How do I get from Inbox 100,000 to Inbox Zero? And what's the best way to move large files between devices?
The Hacker News
'Latrodectus' strikes via phishing emails. This powerful downloader can execute commands, evade detection, and pave the way for further attacks.
ThreatPost
Threat actors use bogus 'shipping delays' to deceive customers and businesses. Troy Gill, senior manager of threat intelligence at Zix, discusses how spoofing is evolving and what to do.
CSO
A detection engine aims to stop malicious QR code email quishing campaigns at their source, preventing them from reaching the user’s inbox.
SC Magazine
Generative artificial intelligence tools intensify the phishing arms race this holiday season between hackers and inbox defenders.
DataBreaches
Cryptocurrency fraud is keeping the Department of Justice busy these days. Here are two press releases in my inbox today: Two Estonian citizens arrested in...
Cyber Security News
A new form of communication on Twitter called the Encrypted Direct Message has been made available by Twitter. It will appear in your inbox and regular Direct Messages as distinct conversations.
DataBreaches
The email in my inbox on Friday night had the subject line, “Hey sexy,” and appeared to come from “eims@ic.fbi.gov” <eims@ic.fbi...
Bleeping Computer
Historic Hotel of America serving up modern malware to their guests. Why securing your inbox with more than just anti-malware engines is needed to prevent cybercrime attacks.
Bleeping Computer
According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails over the last nine hours because email spam filters are currently broken.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft's threat analysts have uncovered a large-scale, multi-phase phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register devices onto the target's network and use them to distribute phishing emails.
Infosecurity News
They created pages with malicious links and ultimately conducted credential-harvesting attacks
Bleeping Computer
Security researchers have found a simple way to deliver malware to an organization with Microsoft Teams, despite restrictions in the application for files from external sources.
ThreatPost
DMARC analysis by Proofpoint shows that institutions in the U.S. have among some of the poorest protections to prevent domain spoofing and lack protections to block fraudulent emails.
Bleeping Computer
Meta is now rolling out 'Chat Lock,' a new WhatsApp privacy feature allowing users to block others from accessing their most personal conversations.
ZDNet
This is your yearly reminder that you do have the power to unsubscribe from that flood of emails you're not even sure you signed up for.
DarkReading
The "TeamsPhisher" cyberattack tool gives pentesters — and adversaries — a way to deliver malicious files directly to a Teams user from an external account, or tenant.
DataBreaches
Shannon Flynn writes: Imagine that you open your email to find a notice that you’ve been part of a data breach. The message says you’re entitled to a...
Bleeping Computer
DuckDuckGo is rolling out an email privacy feature that strips incoming messages of trackers that can help profile you for better profiling and ad targeting.
Bleeping Computer
State-sponsored Iranian hacking group Charming Kitten has been using a new tool to download email messages from targeted Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft Outlook accounts.
Infosecurity News
The US warns that the North Korea-linked Kimsuky group is exploiting poorly configured DMARC protocols to spoof legitimate domains in espionage phishing campaigns
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has confirmed that some Outlook.com users are experiencing issues with emails being blocked and marked as spam when trying to email Gmail accounts.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is adding a built-in screen recorder to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool that will enable users to capture videos of their desktop without the need for a third-party app.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has added text recognition support to the latest Snipping Tool build, allowing users to select and copy text from screenshots.
DataBreaches
Dean Narciso reports: Phishing-scam training has become a commonplace requirement in many workplaces these days. But not everyone is adhering to its lessons...
ZDNet
Attackers have targeted hundreds of organisations, says Microsoft security.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft announced that it will retire Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) troubleshooters in future versions of Windows, with MSDT ultimately being removed in 2025.
ZDNet
Google has updated the information it delivers with comment notifications to stop phishing attacks.
Security Affairs
A critical authentication bypass flaw in miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin, can allow gaining access to any account on a site. Wordfence researchers discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin, that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to any account on a site by knowing the associated email […]
DataBreaches
Wordfly is a digital marketing platform that offers email, SMS marketing, forms and surveys for its clients to use with their customers or contacts. On July...
CSO
The phishing web pages that this adversary-in-the-middle phishing campaign uses act as a proxy and pull content from the legitimate Office 365 login page.
DataBreaches
Troy Hunt writes: A quick summary first before the details: This week, the FBI in cooperation with international law enforcement partners took down a notorious...
The Hacker News
Deep session inspection offers unparalleled protection against phishing attacks. Learn how it works.
DarkReading
One of China's biggest espionage operations owes its success to longstanding Microsoft Exchange bugs, open source tools, and old malware.
DataBreaches
Sam Biddle reports: Marcel Lehel Lazar walked out of Federal Correctional Institute Schuylkill, a Pennsylvania prison, in August 2021. The 51-year-old formerly...
SecurityWeek
Google has made some changes to Google Workspace comment notifications in an effort to protect users against malware and phishing attacks.
The Hacker News
Microsoft uncovers complex AitM phishing and BEC attacks targeting banks and financial services.
ZDNet
Chat Lock puts chats into their own folders, requiring a passcode or biometric scan to access them.
Bleeping Computer
A new business email compromise (BEC) campaign has been discovered combining sophisticated spear-phishing with Adversary-in-The-Middle (AiTM) tactics to hack corporate executives' Microsoft 365 accounts, even those protected by MFA.
Security Affairs
Twitter is rolling out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs), the security feature will be initially available for the verified users. Twitter is rolling out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs), the feature is initially limited to verified users or affiliates to a verified organization that are using the latest version of the app (iOS, Android, Web). The latest […]
Bleeping Computer
Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce's email services and SMTP servers to launch a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting valuable Facebook accounts.
SecurityWeek
Email security startup Abnormal Security reached a $4 billion valuation after raising $210 million in Series C investment, which brings the total raised by company to $285 million
Ars Technica
iLeakage is practical and requires minimal resources. A patch isn't (yet) available.
DarkReading
The ever-evolving threat from phishing is growing more sophisticated as attackers design high-pressure situations and leverage ever-more-convincing social engineering tactics to increase their success rates.
DarkReading
Google researchers say the nation-state hacking team is now employing a data-theft tool that targets Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook accounts using previously acquired credentials.
Bleeping Computer
Twitter caused quite the panic Thursday night when they accidentally sent emails asking users to confirm their accounts, which looked suspiciously like a phishing attack.
SecurityWeek
Google is breaking EU law by sending users of its email service Gmail direct advertising messages, activists said in a complaint sent to French regulators.
CyberNews
Around 20 accounts believed to have been targeted by Charming Kitten threat group, using new data-stealing tool.
Latest Hacking News
The newly discovered phishing attack asks OAuth permissions to access emails. The attack has already targeted numerous organizations.
DataBreaches
On September 1, a listing on a dark web site by a group calling themselves Don#t_Leaks named MonarchNC as a victim. The listing did not appear for long. The...
CyberNews
Threat actors are setting up legitimate payment accounts but using them to facilitate fraudulent demands for money, says a cyber analyst.
CyberNews
Anonymous continues cyberwar campaign against Russia and its allies, claiming to have hacked a Belarusian defense contractor and leaked emails belonging to the firm.
Bleeping Computer
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Microsoft warn that the Russian state-backed actor "Callisto Group" (aka "Seaborgium" or "Star Blizzard") is targeting organizations worldwide with spear-phishing campaigns used to steal account credentials and data.
Infosecurity News
SlashNext said the method deceives ML systems to deliver phishing messages into victims’ inboxes
Trend Micro
Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in recent years, and hospitals are increasingly becoming targets. In many cases, these attacks can have devastating consequences, disrupting vital services and putting patients' lives at risk.
Bleeping Computer
The Windows 10 Notepad will soon include a built-in notification that alerts users when a new version is available.
Infosecurity News
A bigger payout encourages threat actors to put the time in
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has started rolling out the new and completely redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
ZDNet
Google will give blue checkmarks to some verified senders to ensure trust and confidence with Gmail users.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is finally rolling out support for layers and image transparency to the Paint image editor application 38 years after its launch.
Infosecurity News
Threat actors combine techniques to trick users
CyberNews
Threat actors pretend to be Russian dissidents and ask for financial assistance both for themselves and Ukraine.
Krebs on Security
The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing…
Computerworld
Time to upgrade your Google account security and leave the threat of phishing in the past.
ZDNet
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Infosecurity News
Avanan spots campaign leveraging Dynamic 365 Customer Voice
Cyber Security News
Once a serene meadow, the digital landscape has morphed into a battleground where attackers and security vendors engage in a perpetual arms race.
Bleeping Computer
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Bleeping Computer
Hackers have compromised an email marketing account belonging to the Chipotle food chain and used it to send out phishing emails luring recipients to malicious links.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is working on adding custom Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) configuration support to Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity experts are cautioning of a new, previously unreported threat actor located in the Middle East that is targeting telecommunications s
SecurityWeek
Google and Yahoo are introducing new requirements for bulk senders, to improve phishing and spam protections.
The Record
A U.S. aviation executive who says he was targeted in a hack-and-leak smear campaign has reached a settlement in the United Kingdom with the law firm that allegedly facilitated the hacks.
Infosecurity News
QR code phishing is becoming increasingly popular
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has released the KB5033375 update for Windows 11 versions 23H2 and 22H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, upgrade Copilot for Windows, and make 36 changes and fixes
Infosecurity News
Fortinet suggests attackers are leveraging vulnerabilities like CVE-2021-40444 and CVE-2022-30190
Bleeping Computer
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The Hacker News
Google reveals a new malicious tool used by Iranian government-backed hackers to retrieve user data from compromised Gmail, Yahoo! and other emails.
ZDNet
The feature is enabled by default on ProtonMail's web app.
DarkReading
The use of QR codes to deliver malicious payloads jumped in Q4 2023, especially against executives, who saw 42 times more QR code phishing than the average employee.
Bleeping Computer
Security researchers are warning that LinkedIn has become the most spoofed brand in phishing attacks, accounting for 52% of all such incidents at a global level.
Bleeping Computer
Tax software vendor Intuit has warned that QuickBooks customers are being targeted in an ongoing series of phishing attacks impersonating the company and trying to lure them with fake account suspension warnings.
Infosecurity News
Kaspersky claims to have stopped thousands of attempts in Q4 2021
The Record
Two of the world’s largest email providers said Tuesday that they will take several new steps to rein in bulk senders and prevent spam.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft's new AI image generation Paint tool powered by OpenAI's DALL-E text-to-image model is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in Dev and Canary channels.
The Record
Dubbed LoveGPT by researchers at Avast, the tool can get around dating apps' security measures, send likes, read replies from potential matches and create believable profiles.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is investigating an interoperability bug between the recently added Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) feature and legacy LAPS policies.
Infosecurity News
Results suggest the attack was executed using tools and techniques associated with Chinese APTs.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft will block third-party printer driver delivery in Windows Update as part of a substantial and gradual shift in its printer driver strategy over the next 4 years.
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Cyber Security News
Hackers exploited a 0-day vulnerability in Salesforce’s email services and SMTP servers. Malicious email traffic is often concealed within email gateway services that are considered legitimate and trustworthy.
Bleeping Computer
Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning of a new phishing campaign that allowed Russia-linked hackers to deploy previously unseen malware on a network in under one hour.
Bleeping Computer
The Australian Federal Police arrested a woman in Werrington, Sydney, for allegedly email bombing the office of a Federal Member of Parliament.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 KB5025239 cumulative update for version 22H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and introduce 25 changes, improvements, and bug fixes.
Infosecurity News
Sophisticated social engineering targets US and Israeli officials
Bleeping Computer
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Bleeping Computer
Cybercriminals are abusing Adobe Acrobat Sign, an online document signing service, to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users.
SecurityWeek
New iLeakage side-channel speculative execution attack exploits Safari to steal sensitive information from Macs and iPhones.
Bleeping Computer
A new trend in phishing attacks emerged in December 2021, with threat actors abusing the commenting feature of Google Docs to send out emails that appear trustworthy.
DarkReading
UCSC students say that after reporting the bug months ago they're still able to rack up unlimited free wash loads at their local laundromat.
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