Phishing attack

Banking and financial services organizations are the targets of a new multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle ( "The attack originated from a compromised trusted vendor and transitioned into a series of AiTM attacks and follow-on BEC activity spanning multiple organizations," the tech giant Microsoft, which is tracking the cluster under its emerging moniker Storm-1167, called out the group's use of indirect proxy to pull off the attack. This enabled the attackers to flexibly tailor the phishing pages to their targets and carry out session cookie theft, underscoring the continued sophistication of AitM attacks. The modus operandi is unlike other AitM campaigns where the decoy pages act as a "The attacker presented targets with a website that mimicked the sign-in page of the targeted application, as in traditional phishing attacks, hosted on a cloud service," Microsoft said. "The said sign-in page contained resources loaded from an attacker-controlled server, which initiated an authentication session with the authentication provider of the target application using the victim's credentials." The attack chains commence with a phishing email that points to a link, which, when clicked, redirects a victim into visiting a spoofed Microsoft sign-in page and steal the entered credentials and TOTPs. The harvested passwords and session cookies are then used to impersonate the user and gain unauthorized access to the email inbox by means of a replay attack. The access is subsequently abuse...

Ever get an email that looks like it’s from your bank warning you that it will freeze your checking account unless you verify your personal information? The email might have contained a link. And if you clicked? You might have landed on a website that asked you to fill in such personal information as your The ultimate goal no matter which method scammers use? They want your personal information so that they can use it to access your bank accounts or credit cards. And they’ll send countless fake email and text messages across the globe in the hope that they’ll trick enough people into surrendering this sensitive information. Some phishing emails or texts might look unprofessional to you, using poor grammar or asking you to click on links with odd-looking URLs. But phishers don’t have to be sophisticated. These cybercriminals work in volume, and only need to trick a small number of victims to consider their work a success. As an example, in 2018 the Federal Trade Commission pointed to a phishing attack targeting Netflix users. The phishing email purported to be sent from Netflix and warned recipients that the streaming company is “having some trouble” accessing the customer’s billing information. The message asked victims to click on a link to update their payment method. That link, of course, didn’t take users to Netflix but instead to a fake website created by the scammers. How do you make sure you’re not one of these unlucky victims? It’s all about learning how to recogni...

To set a perspective, it’s always useful to start sensitive conversations like this with an example. Unfortunately, people fall victim to scams on a daily basis, whether it’s a supposed cold call from your bank or a door-to-door ‘salesperson’ pretending to be from a company that turns out to be fake. There are those too who hide behind the smoke screen of the internet to exploit victims for monetary gain. All these fraudulent acts are opportunistic, built on the expectation that nine times out of ten you won’t pick up the With phishing emails sent out on mass, cybercriminals are relying on employees either lacking in cyber awareness or being too busy to spot the small discrepancies in the messages that highlight that it’s a trick. However, as phishing continues to rise with 52% of employees admitting to falling victim to a cyber-attack, the chances one of your team will be the cause of a breach is greater today than ever. And the consequence this crime could have on their wellbeing, and the wider workforce’s productivity, could be significant. Kelly Allen is Chief Marketing Officer for Core to Cloud. The effects of a cyber attack A Sage Open report published in 2021, ‘suggested that hacking victims may experience many of the same psychological impacts as those experienced in traditional crime’ including anxiety, an increased sense of vulnerability, fear and sense of helplessness, loss of trust and sense of violation. A further study also suggests victims feel a sense of gu...

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In a campaign that exploits the relationships between different organizations, attackers managed to chain business email compromise (BEC) against four or more organizations jumping from one breached organization to the next by leveraging the relationships between them. "This attack shows the complexity of AitM and BEC threats, which abuse trusted relationships between vendors, suppliers, and other partner organizations with the intent of financial fraud," the Microsoft researchers said. Phishing with indirect proxies In such a phishing implementation, for which open-source toolkits are now available, the attackers gain a passive monitoring role of the traffic between the victim and the service they're authenticating on. The goal is to capture the session cookie relayed back by the service when authentication is complete and then misuse it to directly access the victim's account. However, this also has downsides for the attackers if additional policies are in place that capture and verify other aspects of the victim's machine, because a subsequent login from an attacker could trigger a security alert and flag the session as suspicious. In the new attack observed by Microsoft, the attackers, which the company track under the temporary Storm-1167 moniker, used a custom phishing toolkit they developed themselves and which uses an indirect proxy method. This means the phishing page set up by the attackers does not serve any content from the real log-in page but rather mimics it...

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To set a perspective, it’s always useful to start sensitive conversations like this with an example. Unfortunately, people fall victim to scams on a daily basis, whether it’s a supposed cold call from your bank or a door-to-door ‘salesperson’ pretending to be from a company that turns out to be fake. There are those too who hide behind the smoke screen of the internet to exploit victims for monetary gain. All these fraudulent acts are opportunistic, built on the expectation that nine times out of ten you won’t pick up the With phishing emails sent out on mass, cybercriminals are relying on employees either lacking in cyber awareness or being too busy to spot the small discrepancies in the messages that highlight that it’s a trick. However, as phishing continues to rise with 52% of employees admitting to falling victim to a cyber-attack, the chances one of your team will be the cause of a breach is greater today than ever. And the consequence this crime could have on their wellbeing, and the wider workforce’s productivity, could be significant. Kelly Allen is Chief Marketing Officer for Core to Cloud. The effects of a cyber attack A Sage Open report published in 2021, ‘suggested that hacking victims may experience many of the same psychological impacts as those experienced in traditional crime’ including anxiety, an increased sense of vulnerability, fear and sense of helplessness, loss of trust and sense of violation. A further study also suggests victims feel a sense of gu...

In a campaign that exploits the relationships between different organizations, attackers managed to chain business email compromise (BEC) against four or more organizations jumping from one breached organization to the next by leveraging the relationships between them. "This attack shows the complexity of AitM and BEC threats, which abuse trusted relationships between vendors, suppliers, and other partner organizations with the intent of financial fraud," the Microsoft researchers said. Phishing with indirect proxies In such a phishing implementation, for which open-source toolkits are now available, the attackers gain a passive monitoring role of the traffic between the victim and the service they're authenticating on. The goal is to capture the session cookie relayed back by the service when authentication is complete and then misuse it to directly access the victim's account. However, this also has downsides for the attackers if additional policies are in place that capture and verify other aspects of the victim's machine, because a subsequent login from an attacker could trigger a security alert and flag the session as suspicious. In the new attack observed by Microsoft, the attackers, which the company track under the temporary Storm-1167 moniker, used a custom phishing toolkit they developed themselves and which uses an indirect proxy method. This means the phishing page set up by the attackers does not serve any content from the real log-in page but rather mimics it...

Ever get an email that looks like it’s from your bank warning you that it will freeze your checking account unless you verify your personal information? The email might have contained a link. And if you clicked? You might have landed on a website that asked you to fill in such personal information as your The ultimate goal no matter which method scammers use? They want your personal information so that they can use it to access your bank accounts or credit cards. And they’ll send countless fake email and text messages across the globe in the hope that they’ll trick enough people into surrendering this sensitive information. Some phishing emails or texts might look unprofessional to you, using poor grammar or asking you to click on links with odd-looking URLs. But phishers don’t have to be sophisticated. These cybercriminals work in volume, and only need to trick a small number of victims to consider their work a success. As an example, in 2018 the Federal Trade Commission pointed to a phishing attack targeting Netflix users. The phishing email purported to be sent from Netflix and warned recipients that the streaming company is “having some trouble” accessing the customer’s billing information. The message asked victims to click on a link to update their payment method. That link, of course, didn’t take users to Netflix but instead to a fake website created by the scammers. How do you make sure you’re not one of these unlucky victims? It’s all about learning how to recogni...

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