Perception Point Blog Archive: Attack Trends

A Phishing Link, Some Social Engineering and Evasion – The Foremost Recipe for Cybertheft

What happens if you take a pinch of social engineering, a grain of evasion, and throw some anonymization techniques into the mix? Well, a perfect recipe for phishing. Check this example to see how attackers try to lure end-users to act wrongfully.

Oded Kalev, Software Dev
Sep-20

“Accept Phishing Message” – The SendGrid Scheme

Attackers are ever-improving. See how they learned to leverage SendGrid to gain from two main benefits: evading email security measures and improve their trial and error process to improve their attack success rate.

Michael Calev, Director of Strategy
Sep-20

The Triple Trouble: 3-Stage Phishing Attack.

Perception Point’s platform intercepted a unique, 3-stage attack that uses multiple evasion techniques, in order to infiltrate the targeted organization. In this post, we will present the complex attack and how Perception Point’s unique engines prevented it.

Chen Abadi, Senior Ir Analyst
Aug-20

Faking a Bank: Attackers Target Chase Bank Customers

Perception Point has identified attempts to phish Chase clients. Read this short blog to see how the attacker tried to impersonate to a prominent bank and how Perception Point prevented these attacks.

Perception Point Marketing
Jul-20

New cyber campaign leveraging OneDrive.

Perception Point has once again discovered a new attack trend hitting our clients. Perception Point intercepted this new attack campaign through its Advanced Cloud Storage Security solution. In this attack, we will show how attackers are leveraging OneDrive in order to evade detection and take advantage of a new attack vector.

Perception Point Incident Response
Jun-20

Phishing Campaign Trend: Microsoft Teams.

In the following incident, it is very interesting to see how the attackers have improved their messaging and framework significantly to try trick the end-users.…

Perception Point Incident Response
Jun-20

3 Phishing Campaigns with Improved Backstory Messaging

Perception Point continues to bring you the latest in coronavirus-themed attacks, trying to show you the wide variety that we see daily.

Perception Point Incident Response
May-20

Phishing Attempt Using Slack Referrer URL.

In this update, we will show how attackers are leveraging Slack referrer URL in order to lead victims to phishing pages, thus evading legacy solutions.

Perception Point Incident Response
Apr-20

An Overview of 2 Malware & Phishing Attacks

In this blog, we provide an overview of 2 new attacks caught by our system, with an in-depth malware analysis of one of the campaigns

Perception Point Incident Response
Apr-20

How Salesforce can be Used to Spread Malware & How to Stop it

Overview. Today we present a blog that combines two main trends: (i) The use of collaboration channels to spread malware (Salesforce) and (ii) The increase…

Rom Cyncynatus, Security Researcher
Apr-20

Cybersecurity Trend: New Attacks via Collaboration Channels

Today’s blog shows an interesting change in the way attackers act. Unlike previous incidents we published, this report lays out Coronavirus-themes attacks which are not originated from email but though other collaboration channels, such as cloud storage platform and files shared in internal networks. This shift demonstrates how attackers have been evolving and how they look for new ways into their targets.

Perception Point Incident Response
Apr-20

How Malware Dropping Using Microsoft Excel Works

The following attack presented in this report is only one of many our system has prevented in the last couple of weeks. It is now being used extensively in COVID-19 campaigns.

Perception Point Incident Response
Apr-20

Attack Trends.