Avanan Blog Attack Briefs (24)


ATP Miss of the Week: 1/7/2021

This week, we uncovered an attack that claims a password is about to expire. We saw this across multiple organizations.

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ATP Miss of the Week: 12/22/2020

This week, we uncovered an attack that utilizes a link for documents. We saw this across multiple organizations.

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BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Spoofed in Email Campaign

As happens with all major news events, Avanan is tracking a tremendous number of fake sites, emails and even phone calls and texts which all offer an insider's acces...

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Microsoft Teams: Spoofing Notifications to Steal Credentials

As Microsoft Teams continues to skyrocket in growth, hackers are going to flock to the service. We wrote recently about how a compromise at a partner organization al...

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ATP Miss of the Week: 12/16/2020

This week, we uncovered an attack that utilizes a voice message file. We saw this across multiple organizations.

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Come On In: LinkedIn Used for Spoofing

Quick quiz: which social media platform are hackers impersonating most effectively? If you guessed LinkedIn, good for you. Yes, LinkedIn has quietly become a haven f...

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Slack Continues to Be Top of Mind for Hackers' Malicious Links Attacks

A few months ago, we wrote about a Slack-based attack making waves. In the attack, hackers utilized a Slack redirect to bypass Microsoft SafeLinks. It looks like thi...

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ATP Miss of the Week: 12/09/2020

This week, we uncovered an "eFax" email across multiple organizations. The email comes across as an eFax with a link to view documents.

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Global Financial Institution's Microsoft Teams Account Compromised by Malware

Summary A compromised Microsoft Teams account at a partner organization fooled users at a global financial institution into sharing insider information. After exfilt...

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SPAM-EGY Takes on EDU

Highlights: Avanan researchers have identified an aggressive attack against higher-education targets that uses a number of obfuscation techniques developed by the SP...

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