Security News > 2021 > December > Dridex Omicron phishing taunts with funeral helpline number
The latest example is a phishing campaign that taunts victims with a COVID-19 funeral assistance helpline number.
Dridex is banking malware distributed through phishing emails containing malicious Word or Excel attachments.
Over the past few weeks, one of the Dridex phishing email distributors is having fun toying with victims and researchers.
In a new phishing campaign discovered by MalwareHunterTeam and 604Kuzushi, this same threat actor took it to the next level by spamming emails with a subject of "COVID-19 testing result" that states the recipient was exposed to a coworker who tested positive to the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
To add insult to injury, after macros are enabled, and the device becomes infected, the threat actor taunts their victims by displaying an alert containing the phone number for the "COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Helpline."
With the COVID-19 variant being highly contagious and rapidly spreading worldwide, phishing emails about the Omicron variant are becoming popular and are likely highly effective in distributing malware.