Avanan Blog Attack Briefs (11)


Cybercriminals Use Microsoft Sway Scams to Phish Office 365 Security and Your Well-Trained Users

Have you heard of Microsoft Sway? If you haven’t, there’s a good chance your users don’t know about it either. That’s why this content creation service is used in ph...

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QReep: Sextortion campaign uses QR codes to link to bitcoin wallets instead of URLs

Avanan has uncovered a new sextortion attack that uses QR codes instead of URLs to avoid bitcoin wallet detection. To drive the attack, hackers claim they have foota...

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Update — HTML Attachment Attack on Office 365

This summer, we reported that hackers were bypassing Office 365 EOP and ATP with an ingeniously simple attack that uses HTML attachments in email to launch phishing ...

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5 Things Security Professionals Should Know About the DNC Email Breach

As we enter the 2020 election season, we are once again discussing the possibility of foreign intervention, which puts the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Commi...

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Re:Ploy Email Chain Hijack Attack

Let’s say your organization has the best security. Your employees are trained to never fall victim to phishing. You have SSO and it’s very hard to take over your acc...

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Salesforce Attack: Hackers Use Phishing Email Invoices to Scam Users

What’s more dangerous than hackers running amok in your corporate email?  How about if they had global access to your salesforce.com account? Salesforce.com [$CRM] i...

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MetaMorph HTML Obfuscation Phishing Attack

In yet another example of a phishing campaign impersonating Microsoft’s voicemail notification, we see an HTML attachment that leads to a credential-harvesting URL. ...

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Office 365 Credential Validator Phishing Attack

Hackers are using Microsoft Azure Blob Storage to specifically attack Office 365 admins to take over the Office 365 environment. Although windows.net phishing attack...

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HTML Attachments: The Latest Phishing Trend Targeting Office 365

The average person interacts with HTML every day while surfing the internet. Unless they are a UX developer or designer, however, they probably shouldn’t expect to r...

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Root Domain Hack Impacts 70% of Email Gateway Customers

Hackers are bypassing email security gateways and sending phishing emails directly to Google and Office 365 root domains. If you’re using a gateway, and your mail fl...

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The NoRelationship Attack Bypasses Office 365 Email Attachment Security

Avanan identified a new phishing attack that bypasses EOP (Exchange Online Protection) URL filters, which scan Office documents like Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), and...

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Z-WASP Vulnerability Used to Phish Office 365 and ATP

Executive Summary: The name Z-WASP references the zero-width space (‌) that hackers added to the middle of a malicious URL within the RAW HTML of the email. With all...

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PhishPoint: New SharePoint Phishing Scam Affects an Estimated 10% of Office 365 Users

  Over the past two weeks, we detected (and blocked) a new SharePoint scam phishing attack that affected about 10% of Avanan's Office 365 customers. We estimate this...

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Fake Email Invoices: Why Office 365 Keeps Missing These Phishing Attacks?

Emails with fake invoices has been one of the most popular attack vectors against Office 365 email users for the past several years. The malicious emails are disguis...

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ACE Archives: Microsoft finally closes hole that allowed trojans to bypass Office 365 default security

For several weeks, we detected (and blocked) an attack targeting one of the largest municipalities in the U.S. that bypassed Office 365 default security, using a sim...

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ZeroFont Phishing: Manipulating Font Size to Get Past Office 365 Security

Recently, we have been seeing a number of phishing attacks using a simple strategy to get their blatant email spoofs past Microsoft's phishing scans. The font manipu...

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baseStriker: Office 365 Security Fails To Secure 100 Million Email Users

Update: Microsoft has repaired this vulnerability on 5/16/18, two weeks after we first reported it to them. We recently uncovered what may be the largest security fl...

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The "Ronald Reagan" Attack Allows Hackers to Bypass Gmail's Anti-phishing Security

We started tracking a new method hackers use to bypass Gmail's SPF check for spear-phishing. The hackers send from an external server, the user receives the email fr...

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Why Mailsploit Is One of the Most Dangerous New Phishing Schemes

Avanan has been catching multiple attacks against its customers using a new phishing method called Mailsploit. We have observed this attack on both Office 365 and Gm...

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Attack Report: Phishing Your HR Platform in the Cloud

Avanan’s security analysts recently tracked an increased number of attacks against cloud-based HR systems such as ADP, Workday, Zenefits and Justworks, to compromise...

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