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DeepSeek and Qwen are the tools of hackers
March 23, 2025
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DeepSeek and Qwen are the tools of hackers

Criminals are increasingly exploiting DeepSeek and Qwen. They use jailbreaking techniques to create their malicious content to commit financial and information theft and spread spam. The hackers share their methods with each other. Check Point Software Technologies is already seeing the first cases of abuse of the new AI models: after the launch of DeepSeek and Qwen, security researchers at Check Point Research (CPR) observed that cybercriminals quickly switched from ChatGPT to these new platforms to develop malicious content. Hackers are sharing information about how to manipulate the models and display uncensored content.

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Email attacks have skyrocketed
March 20, 2025
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Companies around the world are facing increasingly dangerous cyber threats. Attacks increased by 21 percent last year. Email attacks, in particular, have increased significantly, by 197 percent, according to the results of a recent cyberthreats report. The Acronis Cyberthreats Report for the second half of 2024 sheds light on the global cybersecurity threat landscape. The situation is tense: The average number of attacks per company has increased by 21 percent. Particularly striking is the rise in email-based attacks, which have increased by 197 percent worldwide compared to the previous year. In addition, there were…

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Email attacks have skyrocketed
March 10, 2025
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Dangerous cyber threats are increasing worldwide. Attacks on companies have increased by an average of 21 percent. In 2024, email attacks in particular have increased, namely by 197 percent, according to the results of a recent cyberthreats report. The Acronis Cyberthreats Report for the second half of 2024 sheds light on the global threat situation in the area of ​​cybersecurity. The situation is tense: the average number of attacks per company has increased by 21 percent. Particularly striking is the increase in email-based attacks, which have increased by 197 percent worldwide compared to the previous year. In addition,...

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Efficiency tactics among hackers improve their profits
September 27, 2024
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Efficiency tactics among hackers improve their profits Image: Bing - AI

Professionalism and the pursuit of profit have long determined the actions of hackers. If you look at current events, you can see that cybercrime is becoming more and more businesslike. After all, hackers make an estimated $1,5 trillion. The cybercriminal scene strives for profit. According to experts, their income amounts to around $1,5 trillion annually. Such a sum is an incentive and drive for major transformations in the dynamics of criminal groups: towards larger organizations, improved processes and more hierarchy in order to carry out attacks more efficiently. The use of artificial intelligence turns mediocre...

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Cyber ​​attacks at the 2024 Olympics
August 6, 2024
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Cyber ​​attacks on the 2024 Olympics Image: Bing - AI

Cyber ​​attackers are also taking advantage of the 2024 Olympics for covert attacks. This was shown by a significant increase in spam emails. There were already around 2020 million cyber attacks at the 450 Summer Games in Tokyo. Partners and supply chains should be particularly protected. Current results from the Bitdefender Antispam Lab show a significant increase in spam emails in the run-up to the Summer Olympics in Paris. 16 percent of all spam messages in May and June were addressed to Germans, followed by France with 27 percent and Ireland with 22 percent. In addition to classic phishing and fraud, an increase in attacks on partners is also expected...

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Microsoft sends customers warning email that looks like spam
July 16, 2024
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After the attack by Midnight Blizzard in January, Microsoft warned its customers in June by sending an explanatory email. It's just unfortunate that such an important message ends up in spam, as Microsoft apparently sent it without email authentication such as SPF or DKIM. Security experts are raising the alarm in many channels. Microsoft was attacked by Midnight Blizzard on January 12, 2024. The Russian-sponsored actors apparently had access to email accounts of high-ranking employees. However, the attackers are said to have had no access to the customer environments. Microsoft had dealt with the attack and informed many customers in June...

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280.000 email addresses stolen from Mainz University Medical Center
5 May 2024
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Several media reports document the recent data theft at the Mainz University Medical Center: 280.000 email addresses were stolen and published on the darknet. The data was probably stolen from an IT service provider that had stored the data. As reported by the Tagesschau, among others, the email systems of an IT service provider at Mainz University Medical Center were accessed without permission. The log files containing the names and email addresses of 280.000 patients and customers were stolen. The attackers published the data on the dark web after a short time. Since only the log files were stolen, the attackers cannot access the...

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New Exchange Online protection for companies
17 April 2024
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The cyber defense specialist G DATA is launching a new solution for Exchange Online. G DATA 365 Mail Protection is designed to stop dangerous emails before they cause damage. The Mail Security Gateway is placed in front of the Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes. G DATA 365 Mail Protection is intended to reliably protect companies and their employees from dangerous messages. The solution was developed specifically for the use of Exchange Online and relies on a self-developed anti-malware engine – for maximum protection. This means that malicious emails don’t even reach employees’ mailboxes and phishing...

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Report: 40 percent more phishing worldwide
March 28, 2024
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The current spam and phishing report from Kaspersky for 2023 speaks a clear language: Users in Germany are still a popular target of phishing attacks: around 34 million phishing attacks in 2023. In total, the anti-phishing identified Kaspersky services worldwide reported an increase in attempts to access phishing links by over 40 percent to nearly 710 million. This significant increase confirms the trend from 2022, when the number had already doubled to 508 million compared to the previous year. Messaging services continue to be among the most popular targets for phishing scams. In 2023, Kaspersky solutions prevented…

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ZeroFont phishing: Emails with text in 0 point font size
3 October 2023
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Hackers use the ZeroFont phishing trick: using 0-point size fonts in emails to make malicious emails appear as if they were securely scanned by security tools in Microsoft Outlook. Phishing emails that contain fonts with a size of 0 point are not entirely new. While the so-called ZeroFont phishing technique has been used in the past, this is the first time it has been documented in this way. ISC Sans analyst Jan Kopriva warns that this trick could make a massive difference in the effectiveness of phishing operations and users…

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