Sunday, May 18, 2025

Phishing

Hellcat Ransomware Upgrades Arsenal to Target Government, Education, and Energy Sectors

The cybersecurity community has raised alarms over the rapid evolution of the Hellcat ransomware group, which has escalated its tactics to target critical sectors....

New GIFTEDCROOK Stealer Targets Government Organizations to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered an alarming escalation in cyber-espionage operations targeting Ukrainian critical sectors, as outlined in CERT-UA's latest alert, CERT-UA#14303. The campaign, attributed...

Morphing Meerkat: A PhaaS Utilizing DNS Reconnaissance to Generate Targeted Phishing Pages

Originally discovered in 2020 as a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform, Morphing Meerkat has since evolved into a sophisticated cybercriminal tool. Initially capable of mimicking login...

AI Surpasses Elite Red Teams in Crafting Effective Spear Phishing Attacks

In a groundbreaking development in the field of cybersecurity, AI has reached a pivotal moment, surpassing elite human red teams in the creation of...

PoisonSeed Targets CRM and Bulk Email Providers in New Supply Chain Phishing Attack

A sophisticated phishing campaign, dubbed "PoisonSeed," has been identified targeting customer relationship management (CRM) and bulk email providers to facilitate cryptocurrency-related scams. The...

Beware! Fake Unpaid Tolls Messages Used in Phishing Attack to Steal Login Credentials

A surge in phishing text messages claiming unpaid tolls has been linked to a massive phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation. These scams, which have been hitting...

Hackers Use URL Shorteners and QR Codes in Tax-Themed Phishing Attacks

As the United States approaches Tax Day on April 15, cybersecurity experts have uncovered a series of sophisticated phishing campaigns leveraging tax-related themes to...

DeepSeek-R1 Prompts Abused to Generate Advanced Malware and Phishing Sites

The release of DeepSeek-R1, a 671-billion-parameter large language model (LLM), has sparked significant interest due to its innovative use of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. CoT...