SVG Phishing Malware Being Distributed with Analysis Obstruction Feature
AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) recently identified a phishing malware being distributed in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. SVG is an XML-based vector image file format commonly used for icons, logos, charts, and graphs, and it allows the use of CSS and JS scripts within the code. In November 2024, the ASEC Blog introduced SVG […]
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice Phishing Scam
Overview: Check Point researchers have identified a new phishing campaign that exploits Microsoft’s “Dynamics 365 Customer Voice,” a customer relationship Overview: Check Point researchers have identified a new phishing campaign that exploits Microsoft’s “Dynamics 365 Customer Voice,” a customer relationship management software product. It’s often used to record customer calls, monitor customer reviews, share surveys and track feedback. Microsoft 365 is used by over 2 million organizations worldwide. At least 500,000 organizations use Dynamics 365 Customer Voice, including 97% of Fortune 500 companies. In this campaign, cyber criminals send business files and invoices from compromised accounts, and include fake Dynamics 365 Customer Voice links. The email configuration looks legitimate and easily tricks email recipients into taking the bait. As part of this campaign, cyber criminals have deployed over 3,370 emails, with content reaching employees of over 350 organizations, the majority of which are American. More than a million different mailboxes were targeted. Affected entities include well-established community betterment groups, colleges and universities, news outlets, a prominent health information group, and organizations that promote arts and culture, among others.
Learn how a convincing Google spoof used a DKIM replay attack to bypass email security and trick users with a fake subpoena. A real-world phishing example you need to see.
Effective Phishing Campaign Targeting European Companies and Organizations
A phishing campaign targeting European companies used fake forms made with HubSpot's Free Form Builder, leading to credential harvesting and Azure account takeover. A phishing campaign targeting European companies used fake forms made with HubSpot's Free Form Builder, leading to credential harvesting and Azure account takeover.
Check Point Research is tracking an ongoing, large scale and sophisticated phishing campaign deploying the newest version of the Rhadamanthys stealer (0.7). We dubbed this campaign CopyRh(ight)adamantys. This campaign utilizes a copyright infringement theme to target various regions, including the United States, Europe, East Asia, and South America. The campaign impersonates dozens of companies, while each email is sent to a specific targeted entity from a different Gmail account, adapting the impersonated company and the language per targeted entity. Almost 70% of the impersonated companies are from Entertainment /Media and Technology/Software sectors. Analysis of the lures and targets in this campaign suggests the threat actor uses automation for lures distribution. Due to the scale of the campaign and the variety of the lures and sender emails, there is a possibility that the threat actor also utilized AI tools. One of the main updates in the Rhadamanthys stealer version according to claims by the author, is AI-powered text recognition. However, we discovered that the component introduced by Rhadamanthys does not incorporate any of the modern AI engines, but instead uses much older classic machine learning, typical for OCR software.
Every Doggo Has Its Day: Unleashing the Xiū Gǒu Phishing Kit
Key data This article explores Netcraft’s research into Xiū gǒu (修狗), a phishing kit in use since at least September 2024 to deploy phishing campaigns ...
How do cryptocurrency drainer phishing scams work?
In recent months, a surge in cryptodrainer phishing attacks has been observed, targeting cryptocurrency holders with sophisticated schemes aimed at tricking them into divulging their valuable credentials.
Discover the lifecycle of a commercial web traffic filtering service originating from a GitHub project and how it found success within phishing operations, including how it evolved into a commercial platform offering under new branding.
New phishing-as-a-service tool “Greatness” already seen in the wild
A previously unreported phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) offering named “Greatness” has been used in several phishing campaigns since at least mid-2022. Greatness incorporates features seen in some of the most advanced PaaS offerings, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) bypass, IP filtering and integration with Telegram bots. * Greatness, for now, is only focused on Microsoft 365 phishing pages, providing its affiliates with an attachment and link builder that creates highly convincing decoy and login pages. It contains features such as having the victim’s email address pre-filled and displaying their appropriate company logo and background image, extracted from the target organization’s real Microsoft 365 login page. This makes Greatness particularly well-suited for phishing business users. * An analysis of the domains targeted in several ongoing and past campaigns revealed the victims were almost exclusively companies in the U.S., U.K., Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and the most commonly targeted sectors were manufacturing, health care and technology. The exact distribution of victims in each country and sector varies slightly between campaigns. * To use Greatness, affiliates must deploy and configure a provided phishing kit with an API key that allows even unskilled threat actors to easily take advantage of the service’s more advanced features. The phishing kit and API work as a proxy to the Microsoft 365 authentication system, performing a “man-in-the-middle” attack and stealing the victim’s authentication credentials or cookies.
A Noteworthy Threat: How Cybercriminals are Abusing OneNote
Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote's ability to embed files and use social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and lures inside the OneNote document, to get unsuspecting users to download and open malicious files.
A Noteworthy Threat: How Cybercriminals are Abusing OneNote
Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote's ability to embed files and use social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and lures inside the OneNote document, to get unsuspecting users to download and open malicious files.
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
Cluster25 researchers analyzed several campaigns (also publicly reported by CERT-AGID) that used phishing emails to spread an InfoStealer malware written in .NET through an infection chain that involves Windows Shortcut (LNK) files and Batch Scripts (BAT). Taking into account the used TTPs and extracted evidence, the attacks seem perpetrated by the same adversary (internally named AUI001).
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
Cluster25 researchers analyzed several campaigns (also publicly reported by CERT-AGID) that used phishing emails to spread an InfoStealer malware written in .NET through an infection chain that involves Windows Shortcut (LNK) files and Batch Scripts (BAT). Taking into account the used TTPs and extracted evidence, the attacks seem perpetrated by the same adversary (internally named AUI001).
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
