BBC News reports that major online travel agency Booking.com had its customers in the U.S., UK, and other parts of the world impacted by fraud following a social engineering attack that involved the deployment of the Vidar information-stealing malware.
Wide-reaching phishing scams have been conducted by the Neanderthals threat operation using the malicious Telegram bot dubbed "Telekopye," reports The Hacker News.
Malware-free intrusions have become the leading cybersecurity threat against small- to medium-sized businesses, accounting for 56% of all cyber incidents during the third quarter, SiliconAngle reports.
QakBot trojan tactics live on in DarkGate, PikaBot malware attacks Attack techniques once used to disseminate the dismantled QakBot trojan, also known as QBot and Pinkslipbot, have been leveraged in a new widespread phishing campaign involving the DarkGate and PikaBot strains aimed at various industries, according to The Hacker News.
Mounting QR code phishing attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic have led SlashNext to introduce the new QR Code Phishing Protection service, which has been touted as the first-ever solution enabling multi-channel quishing defenses, reports SiliconAngle.
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