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New phishing scam uses IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure to feign legitimacy
There is a new phishing scam doing the rounds. There is a new phishing campaign going around, which leverages high-profile cloud services from Microsoft and IBM to feign legitimacy. As recently reported by Bleeping Computer, the phishing campaign targets corporate...
SurveyMonkey Phishers Go Hunting for Office 365 Credentials
Security researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that uses malicious emails from legitimate SurveyMonkey domains in a bid to bypass security filters. The phishing emails in question are sent from a real SurveyMonkey domain but crucially have a different...
HSBC SMS Phishing Scam Targets UK Victims
People in the UK are being targeted by a new phishing scam designed to trick victims into handing over details of their HSBC bank account. The scam, discovered by litigation specialists Griffin Law, begins with a bogus text message that claims to be from the banking...
Persuasive Office 365 phishing uses fake Zoom suspension alerts
Microsoft Office 365 users are targeted by a new phishing campaign using fake Zoom notifications to warn those who work in corporate environments that their Zoom accounts have been suspended, with the end goal of stealing Office 365 logins. Zoom is a cloud-based...
Microsoft’s Project Freta: This new free service spots rootkits lurking in cloud VMs
Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta, a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in memory on cloud infrastructure. But unlike Microsoft's commercial security services and...
Microsoft seizes six domains used in COVID-19 phishing operations
Microsoft has obtained a court order this month allowing the company to seize control of six domains that were used in phishing operations against Office 365 customers, including in campaigns that leveraged COVID-19 lures. According to court documents obtained by...
ThiefQuest info-stealing Mac wiper gets free decryptor
Poor coding of the ThiefQuest ransomware in disguise that targets macOS users allows the recovery of encrypted files, which would remain lost in lack of a backup. While the malware (initially named EvilQuest) deploys the encryption routine immediately after infecting...
Corporate UK Cybercrime Victims Double in Five Years
The number of UK business falling victim to cybercrime has doubled over the past five years, costing the economy an estimated tens of billions in the process, according to new research. The business ISP polled over 2500 companies between 2015 and 2019. The percentage...
New Apple macOS Big Sur feature to hamper adware operations
Apple has disabled the ability to silently install macOS profiles from the CLI in macOS 11, a measure that was widely employed by adware and malware gangs. With macOS 11, also known as Big Sur, Apple has removed the ability to install macOS profile configurations from...
Microsoft Teams’ new Together Mode is designed for pandemic-era meetings
Microsoft is adding a lot of new features to Teams Microsoft introduced some big updates to Microsoft Teams yesterday. The software giant has been working on a new “Together Mode” for Teams ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and it’s designed to create a virtual...