With the festive season in full swing, the rush to snag post-Black Friday bargains and buy Christmas gifts online has led to a sharp rise in threat levels. For cybercriminals, this is the perfect ...

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“In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed … Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed opportunity to join a ...

Russian nation-state actor Star Blizzard has been running a new spear-phishing campaign to compromise WhatsApp accounts of targets in government, diplomacy, defense policy, international relations ...

These attacks are often given accompanying names: Spear phishing, Whale phishing, Smishing, Vishing, and email phishing. Thanks to modern impersonation techniques, spearheaded by various ...

And all that is happening at a time when the worst aspects of digital innovation are just beginning to have an impact – deep fakes, social hate speech, disinformation, wholesale job automation, ...

In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed ...

Microsoft researchers catches Russia’s Star Blizzard hackers spear-phishing with QR codes and WhatsApp group chats. Microsoft researchers have uncovered Russian intelligence agencies using ...

The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims' WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a ...

Common tactics being deployed by scammers include fake file-sharing request, fraudulent order confirmations, fake Microsoft 365 credentials requests, as well as two-stage spear phishing.