Phishing

Intrusions aimed at exfiltrating credentials from nearly a dozen former and current U.S. officials and people associated with the campaigns of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden were conducted by APT42 between May and June.

Such a loss stemmed from unknown attackers luring a non-executive employee to conduct several outbound wire transfers to their controlled accounts, said Orion in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Intrusions commenced with the delivery of phishing emails with RAR archives deploying a backdoor that facilitated the injection of the APT31-linked GrewApacha trojan, as well as a new version of the CloudSorcerer malware that bypasses detection through VMProtect.

Internal Trump campaign documents from hacker "Robert" leaked to Politico and other media outlets are intended to disrupt the 2024 U.S. elections.

Hunters International has leveraged a typosquatted site for the widely used Angry IP Scanner to lure IT workers into downloading an installer.

Zero-day detection hits for SnakeKeylogger reached hundreds, with the trojan attempting communications with numerous outside servers, according to an alert from Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.