Avanan Blog Attack Briefs (29)


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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Attack Report: Gmail Vulnerable to Nickname Impersonation Spearphishing

The Basics of the Nickname Email Spoof Attack We have trained our users to distrust a sender's nickname and validate an identity by looking at the original email add...

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Attack Report: Excel Phishing Attack that Bypasses Office 365

This targeted phishing attack against Office 365 Outlook customers impersonates Excel Online in an HTML attachment in order to trick users into entering their creden...

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Report: Office 365 Hacked Using Google Open-Redirect Vulnerability

A new widespread phishing attack against Office 365 email customers uses Google's App-Engine website to redirect victims to download malicious files. Avanan security...

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Attack Report: Office 365 Security Bypassed Using Hexadecimal Escape Characters

In several past blogs, we described how hackers bypass Office 365 Security with Punycode encoding, and then Unicode characters. In this attack report we discuss an a...

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Attack Report: Office 365 Sharepoint from China

This attack report covers a massive attack on Office 365 users that leverages the trust Office 365 puts in its own links.

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Attack Report: Unicode-Based Phishing

This is a large scale phishing attack against Office 365 that we have been seeing across the majority of our Office 365 customers. The attack takes advantage of Offi...

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Attack Report: The Long-term Phish

“One question was what exactly were the hackers after? They had compromised at least one account, yet they still weren’t done. What was next? But the big question wa...

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5 Phishing Attacks Office 365 and Gmail Didn't Detect in July

In the past 30 days, the Avanan platform has detected and blocked thousands of unique phishing attacks against our customers. The most interesting are those that byp...

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Attack Report: How Google Drive Propagates Malware

This attack report covers a phishing attack against Gmail and Google Drive customers that leverages both services and exploits a blind spot in the G Suite service.

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