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New social engineering toolkit draws inspiration from previous web campaigns

September 3, 2019 admin Domen, eitest, FakeUpdates, hoeflertext, NetSupport, Rat, SocGholish, Social engineering

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:15:33 +0000

We discovered a web social engineering toolkit that allows crooks to create fake update notification campaigns on both desktop and mobile in up to 30 different languages.

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A story of fonts by the EITest HoeflerText campaign

April 26, 2017 admin chrome, cybercrime, eitest, font, hoeflertext, malware, ransomware, Social engineering, Spora Ransomware

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:45:58 +0000

The HoeflerText campaign is known for a fake font download that delivers the Spora ransomware. But did you know it also uses special characters in the dropper’s file name?

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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:00:09 +0000

The first quarter of 2017 brought with it some significant changes to the threat landscape and we aren’t talking about heavy ransomware distribution either. Threats which were previously believed to be serious contenders this year have nearly vanished entirely, while new threats and infection techniques have forced the security community to reconsider collection and analysis efforts.

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