Kevin Poireault reports: Keir Giles, a British expert on Russian information operations, has been targeted by a sophisticated spear phishing attack using novel social engineering techniques. The writer and senior consulting fellow at the UK think tank Chatham House was lured into sending app-specific passwords to someone impersonating a US State Department employee. The Google…
Category: Phishing
FIN6 cybercriminals pose as job seekers on LinkedIn to hack recruiters
This may make it a bit harder for those legitimately seeking jobs on LinkedIn. Daryna Antoniuk reports: Cybercriminals from the long-running FIN6 group are posing as job seekers on platforms like LinkedIn to infect recruiters with malware delivered through fake resumes, according to a new report. Recruitment scams are common among cybercrime gangs, but this…
100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in £47m phishing attack on HMRC
Nadeem Badshah reports: HM Revenue and Customs has lost £47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard. Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted,…
Russian-linked hackers target UK Defense Ministry while posing as journalists
Martin Fornusek reports: Russian-linked hackers targeted U.K. Defense Ministry staff in an espionage operation while posing as journalists, Sky News reported on May 29, citing the British government. The cyber attack was detected and thwarted, the government said. Speaking to reporters at a government facility where a team had disrupted the Russian-backed operation, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey revealed the…
Fresno County fell victim to $1.6M phishing scam in 2020. One suspected has been arrested, another has been indicted.
Gabriel Dillard reports: Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday with six counts of wire fraud stemming from a $1.6 million phishing scheme against the County of Fresno. Jafaar September Nyangoro, 52, of Franklin, Tennessee, and Peter Bah Acha, 45 of Berlin, Germany, are accused of secretly gaining control of an email…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles Phishing Attack Breach with Health Care Network for $600,000
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with PIH Health, Inc. (PIH), a California health care network, over potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The violations stem from a phishing attack that exposed unsecured electronic protected health…