Security News > 2021 > May > Bait Boost: Phishers Delivering Increasingly Convincing Lures
Innovative twists on banking scams and corporate-account hunters wielding increasingly clever lures, including those with COVID-19 vaccine promises, are likely to dominate the spam and phishing landscape throughout Q2 2021, according to researchers.
Another particularly despicable COVID scam email specifically targeted people over 65 seeking a vaccine, the researchers added.
"To counter people's increasingly wary attitude to emails from outside, attackers try to give their mailings a respectable look, disguising them as messages from business tools and services," Kaspersky said.
"Old techniques, such as creating a unique fake page using JavaScript, were combined in Q1 with overtly business-themed phishing emails," the report said.
"If previously scammers used common, but not always business-oriented, services as bait, the new batch of emails cited an urgent document awaiting approval or contract in need of review."
The most common malicious attachments for spam emails in the quarter consisted of the Agensla malware, according to Kaspersky, with 8.91 percent of malicious trojan market; followed by Microsoft Equation Editor vulnerability exploits for CVE-2017-11882.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-15 | CVE-2017-11882 | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". | 9.3 |