New phishing attacks leveraging lures related to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine have been deployed by state-sponsored cyberespionage group Cloud Atlas against a Russian state-owned research firm and an agro-industrial enterprise, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Individuals who recently updated their residence visas across the United Arab Emirates have been targeted Chinese-speaking threat group Smishing Triad in a new smishing attack campaign that involved the impersonation of the country's Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship facilitate malicious data gathering activities, reports The Hacker News.
Hotels are having their staff targeted by a new attack campaign aimed at exfiltrating hotel management credentials through emails that include Windows malware, The Register reports.
More advanced email and SMS phishing attacks have been launched by the Storm-0539 threat operation to achieve gift card fraud and theft against organizations in the retail industry amid the holiday shopping season, The Hacker News reports.
More than $500,000 worth of cryptocurrency was noted by Blockaid to have been exfiltrated across 500 to 1,000 wallets following a cyberattack against crypto asset hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger's Ledger Connect Kit software, reports BNN Bloomberg.
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