Cybersecurity Weekly: AiTM phishing attack, how to spot social engineering personas, CISA patch order
A new AiTM phishing attack can skip MFA, scammers posing as cybersecurity companies to install malware, and how to spot fake personas used for social engineering. All these and more in this week's edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.
1. Microsoft warning: This AiTM phishing attack can skip your defenses
Phishing campaigns are using web proxies to perfectly imitate corporate login pages that can help attackers dodge multi-factor authentication.
2. Crooks are now posing as cybersecurity companies to trick you into installing malware
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike details phishing attacks that claim to come from security companies - including Crowdstrike itself.
3. How hackers create fake personas for social engineering
And some ways to up your game for identifying fabricated online profiles of people who don't exist.
4. CISA orders agencies to patch new Windows zero-day used in attacks
CISA has added an actively exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS) to its list of bugs abused in the wild.
5. Now offering cryptocurrency, ATMs targeted for crypto-fraud
The addition of cryptocurrency to ATMs in recent years has added a new wrinkle to the basic card skimmers and over-the-shoulder, old-school PIN-snatching.