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Vietnamese Hackers Hit Digital Marketers With Info Stealers


Anti-Phishing, DMARC
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Endpoint Security
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Under Fire: US, UK and India; Attackers Often Wield DarkGate Info-Stealing Malware

Vietnamese Hackers Hit Digital Marketers With Info Stealers
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Cybercrime groups in Vietnam are targeting the digital marketing sector in the United Kingdom, United States and India with multiple malware strains, including the widely used DarkGate information stealer, security researchers report.

See Also: Defending Against the Rising Tide of Fraud: Resilience Strategies for Businesses


Security firm WithSecure’s Detection and Response Team said it tracked multiple Vietnamese cybercrime groups running social engineering campaigns in September, designed to trick marketing professionals into downloading malicious files masquerading as job descriptions and salary details.


Schemes used by attackers included using fake job openings at Corsair, a computer memory and hardware manufacturer, to convince individuals to download a malicious file called Job Description of Corsair.docx. They also used job openings at Indian finance company Groww as bait in India.


The Vietnam-based groups likely purchased the information-stealing malware from cybercrime marketplaces and used them interchangeably when attacking specific sectors or groups, researchers said. The malware samples used in the campaigns included the well-known DarkGate info stealer, as well as Ducktail, Lobshot and Redline.


Researchers said attackers’ tactics and choice of malware overlapped heavily, making it difficult to attribute any given…

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What role will marketers play in the cyber conflicts of tomorrow? – The Drum

What role will marketers play in the cyber conflicts of tomorrow?  The Drum

For The Drum magazine’s special cyberwarfare issue, we asked marketers around the world what place their industry and their peers will have in a world where …

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Marketer’s Data Breach Exposes 120 Million People

  1. Marketer’s Data Breach Exposes 120 Million People  Courthouse News Service
  2. 120M American Households Affected By Massive Data Breach: Report  Patch.com
  3. [Update] Another MASSIVE Data Leak: “Life in 123 Million American Households Exposed Online”  Wccftech
  4. 120 Million American Households Exposed In ‘Massive’ ConsumerView Database Leak  Forbes
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Marketers Are Not Yet Ready For GDPR: Experian Study – MediaPost Communications

Marketers Are Not Yet Ready For GDPR: Experian Study
MediaPost Communications
When asked about the effect of global regulations, 73% said that notifying data breach victims on a global scale, a tough new requirement in the GDRP, is “very difficult to perform.” In addition, 69% believe that failure to comply with regulations

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data breach – Google News