According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime would be the world’s third-largest economy (after the U.S. and China) if measured as a country as its damages may total $9.5 trillion globally in 2024. While this may be a surprising stat, it should reiterate the importance of your cybersecurity plan and solutions. External threats play a large part in digital threat landscape, and like the name...

Of the three forms of threat intelligence (strategic, operational, and tactical), tactical threat intelligence is the most directly actionable. Tactical threat intelligence also enables defenders to engage in threat hunting or root cause analysis activities when examining historical (attempted) intrusions. This is useful in detecting breaches that may have occurred, understanding the cause of a previous breach, and understanding whether a particular adversary or TTP is being attempted against your organization.

Cyberattack anatomies are a detailed outline of various attack methodologies, techniques, and tactics. This blog post will outline the anatomy of a recent smishing campaign identified by Fortra’s threat researchers. The Smishing Attack The smishing text contains a banking alert about a transaction being put on hold and urges the reader to visit the...

Active Phishing Campaigns are coordinated attacks that Fortra has observed bypassing email security gateways and filtering tools. The following analysis includes examples, high-level details, and associated threat indicators. Sample Email Lure Sender VerificationSender’s Email: ogawa@kidscorp[.]jp Sender’s Name: Beth KolcunReply-To Address: beth...

One of the most used phishing-as-a-service platforms, LabHost, has been taken down by an international group of law enforcement authorities coordinated by Europol. Fortra has closely monitored LabHost and has mitigated tens of thousands of phishing attacks carried out by cybercriminals using the platform in recent years.

Browser fingerprinting is one of many tactics phishing site authors use to evade security checks and lengthen the lifespan of malicious campaigns. While browser fingerprinting has been used by legitimate organizations to uniquely identify web browsers for nearly 15 years, it is now commonly exploited by cybercriminals. Today, it is considered widely used for phishing purposes.

In Q4, three malware families represented more than 93% of all payload volume targeting end users, with Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) DarkLoader leading all other reports. Fortra first received reports of DarkLoader in user inboxes in Q3, with attack volume picking up significantly beginning in October. The shift to criminal activity associated with DarkLoader comes after coordinated efforts by...