Wallet drainer attack activity was particularly elevated during the first three months of 2024, with the loss of $55.4 million worth of cryptocurrency in the year's biggest heist bringing stolen proceeds to $187 million, according to a study from Scam Sniffer.
Malicious emails using code of conduct-related lures deceive targets into opening an image file-spoofing RAR archive that deploys a Windows executable that runs PLAYFULGHOST.
Attacks with the new VBCloud malware have been deployed by Russian state-backed threat operation Cloud Atlas, also known as Clean Ursa, Oxygen, Inception, and Red October, to facilitate data theft against dozens of users, most of whom are in Russia, reports The Hacker News.
Major U.S. aerospace and defense firm General Dynamics has confirmed having dozens of employee benefits accounts breached following a phishing attack in October, SecurityWeek reports.
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