Check Point Email Security Blog Attack Briefs (25)


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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Hackers Targeting G-Suite via DocuSign

Remote work has been a boon for a number of companies and DocuSign is no different. The e-signature company has seen 61% year-over-year growth. As companies to work-...

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Not-So-Sweet Home: Mortgage Wire Fraud Scams Explode

You're about to close on a house. Congrats! But it's not all dream-come-true. You have to be on the lookout for mortgage wire fraud.

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MFA Is Not The Cure-All

According to official Microsoft guidance, multi-factor authentication can solve everything. Seriously. Read on:

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