Phishing

An attack campaign targeting Android users in Austria has been employing a unique trio of techniques to steal their funds: a credentials phishing web page, malicious banking app overlays, and credit card phishing screens.

The altered missive came from Campaign Chairman John Podesta's email. Podesta was netted in a phishing campaign.

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have uncovered QtBot, an intermediate-stage downloader that helps to deliver the final payload in geography-based Locky-Trickbot malspam campaigns.

Malspam campaigns designed to spread the Ursnif banking trojan have been heavily targeting Japanese banks and payment card providers in 2017, especially since this past September, according to IBM's X-Force research.

The details of a phishing campaign currently being run in Switzerland that uses a tax dodge to entice its victims to open an attached file which will then download the Retefe banking trojan have been released by PhishMe.

A 32-year-old Chicago man is reportedly facing a maximum five years in prison after agreeing to plead guilty to hacking celebrities' Gmail and iCloud accounts in order to obtain their nude photos and videos.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint alert concerning an advanced persistent threat targeting the government and organizations in the energy, nuclear, water and manufacturing sectors.

The U.S. Department of Education issued a belated warning to the nation's school districts concerning cyberattacks that use threats of violence against students in an attempt to extort money from the district.