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Ultimate aim may be to wipe out data at the time of the attacker's choosing, the company warns

A newly discovered Mac Trojan malware can run ads and steal data from the Apple device no matter how safe it is. The said malware is called the WizardUpdate. Although it was already in existence for some time now, it has been upgraded to pose more danger.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and it's one of the most important things for all at home, work, and inside schools.

Microsoft spent a year tracking a phishing campaign that changed obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average.

Use a PC? This new Microsoft phishing scam is mighty convincing By Charlie Fripp, Komando.com Over the last few years, we have seen several phishing and cyberattacks that seemed ingenious. From masking their appearance to hiding in plain sight, criminals will always develop malware to be as untraceable as possible. But sometimes a virus or malicious code comes along that has security experts scratching their heads. Often it is not the complexity of the malware, but how cunning they can be. ...

"An active phishing campaign is using a crafty combination of legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender addresses that contain the target usernames and domains, and display names that mimic legitimate services to try and slip through email filters," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team Sneakier than usual The use of SharePoint in the display name as well as in the message, is one of the techniques the scam relies on to appear legitimate, as per the research...

A phishing campaign is going on right now. Its meant to con Office 365 users into giving up their credentials. Microsoft says to watch out for it. Microsoft wants to alert you to a phishing scheme going on that involves the most classic of tricks, including barely misspelled domain names, URLs, and sender addresses. If youre hyper-vigilant of typos and tend to catch these things even when your spam filters fail to, youre all safe. But for everyone else who only takes a quick glance to verify wh...

Microsoft Warns of Crafty Phishing Campaign The active campaign uses legitimate-looking original sender addresses and spoofed display sender addresses, along with other tactics, to bypass email filters. Dark Reading Staff PDF Microsoft has warned of an active phishing campaign targeting Office 365 users with a "crafty combination" of techniques aimed at bypassing email filters. The attack uses legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender addresses that contain tar...

The group behind the massive SolarWinds hacks has also been running a sophisticated email-based spear-phishing campaign, according to Microsoft. In a blog post by company VP Tom Burt, he said the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected a wave of cyberattacks by the group called Nobelium against government agencies, think tanks and non-governmental organizations. Nobelium apparently sent out 3,000 emails to 150 organizations...

Stop opening PDF files you receive in shady emails, Microsoft finds malware hidden in them Hackers are targeting people who have compromised email accounts and luring them with payment-related emails. Shubham Verma | May 26, 2021 | Updated 12:41 IST Highlights Hackers use the Trojan malware called StrRAT to target compromised email accounts. Microsoft has said its Microsoft 365 Defender can protect machines against this malware. If you have a habit of impulsively opening PDFs that you find att...